Beef Stroganoff - a meat dish with a sauce that can be complemented with absolutely any side dishes.
There are lots of different recipes for this dish.
The most delicious option is the classic one.
Moreover, such a dish is prepared very simply, quickly, always turns out.
Classic Beef Stroganoff - General Cooking Principles
Beef stroganoff beef is cut into long sticks or thick straw. The fresher and younger the meat, the tastier the dish will turn out, and it will be cooked faster. The pieces are breaded in flour, then fried in pieces or all at once. Next, add the remaining ingredients.
What else is added to beef stroganoff:
• vegetables;
• sour cream;
• tomato sauce;
• spices, greens.
Vegetables are usually also passer in oil to give the dish a rich taste. Sour cream or tomato is used together or separately. In the classic version, water is not added to the meat. But if you plan to serve a dish with dry side dishes, you can pour a little boiling water. The time for stewing beef in a sauce directly depends on the quality of the meat, but in any case, it needs to be reduced to softness.
Prepare beef stroganoff in a deep frying pan, cauldron, saucepan or in another pot with a thick bottom, in which you can fry. But there are classic recipes of this dish in a slow cooker or in the oven, they can be found a little lower.
Beef stroganoff: a classic recipe with sour cream and tomato
Another popular classic beef stroganoff recipe that has a very tasty sauce. Sour cream is better to use fat.
Ingredients
• 0.7 kg of meat;
• 3 bulbs;
• 100 g tomato paste;
• 200 g sour cream;
• some oil;
• 1 clove garlic;
• pepper, salt and dill;
• 100 grams of flour.
Cooking
1. Flour the flour in a bowl. Perhaps it will leave a little less.
2. We cut the meat in small cubes, each roll in flour, fry in butter until golden brown. If you fail to put everything at once in one layer, you can do it one by one or use two pans. We take out all the beef in a bowl. 3. Cut the onion, put it in the pan, fry until transparent and return to the oil.
4. Stir, fry for a moment together to combine flavors.
5. Combine sour cream and tomato sauce, pour the dish. Squeeze a clove of garlic, pepper and salt, simmer under a lid over low heat until soft.
6. At the end add a little dill in beef stroganoff, throw a leaf of laurel and turn it off.
Beef stroganoff: a classic recipe with cucumbers
The recipe for a terrific beef stroganoff with pickled cucumbers, which used to be often found in Soviet canteens. The dish is very tasty, unusual.
Ingredients
• 500 g of beef;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• 1 onion;
• 1 clove garlic;
• 20 ml of tomato sauce;
• 300 g sour cream;
• 100 g cucumbers;
• 3 spoons of butter;
• spices, greens.
Cooking
1. Fry chopped onions in butter until rosy color.
2. Cut the julienne pickles, add to the onions, fry all together for several minutes. Put in a bowl.
3. Add oil to the pan. Cut the beef, sprinkle with flour and fry until golden brown. Return the previously fried onions with cucumbers to the pan.
4. Combine sour cream with tomato sauce or a teaspoon of ketchup, squeeze a clove of garlic, salt.
5. Pour the sauce in the pan to the meat with onions and cucumbers, cover.
6. Simmer the delicious beef stroganoff for about twenty minutes, focus on the softness of the meat.
7. Fill the beef with greens, laurel and turn it off. Served with different vegetable and cereal side dishes.
Beef stroganoff: classic recipe with tomato and mayonnaise
The recipe will help out if there is no sour cream at home, but there is mayonnaise. For the preparation of such beef stroganova from the classic recipe you will need tomato sauce and mayonnaise. If paste will be used, then it is necessary to part it with a small amount of water.
Ingredients
• 700 g beef pulp;
• 150 grams of onions;
• 50 grams of flour;
• 50 grams of tomato sauce;
• 150 grams of mayonnaise;
• 50 grams of butter;
• salt and pepper.
Cooking 1. Rinse, dry and chop the beef into thin cubes, set aside.
2. Onion crumble with large half rings, put in butter and fry for a couple of minutes.
3. Sprinkle the beef with flour, mix and lay out an even layer on the onion.
4. After a couple of minutes, mix and fry until golden brown on the meat. But make sure that the bow is not burnt.
5. We remove the fire to a minimum, we begin to extinguish the beef stroganoff under the lid in its juice. Beef should be almost ready. If necessary, you can pour a little boiling water, literally a couple of spoons.
6. Add tomato sauce, mixed with mayonnaise, put salt and pepper, you can add other spices.
7. Cover and simmer beef stroganoff for about half an hour so that it is soaked with sauce, come to readiness.
8. We supplement the dish with fresh or dried herbs, we throw laurel, you can turn it off.
Beef stroganoff: a classic recipe in the oven
In the oven, beef stroganoff from a classic recipe, the dish is especially tender and juicy. It can be prepared in the form, in the cauldron, but the most successful option is obtained in a clay pot. You can use several small pots.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of beef;
• 3 onions;
• flour, butter;
• spices, herbs;
• 120 g of mayonnaise;
• 150 g sour cream;
• 2 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Wash the beef, wipe dry with napkins, cut into bars, but not very finely.
2. We take a wide pan, pour a thin layer of oil so that it barely covers the bottom, set it on fire.
3. Dump the pieces of meat in flour, lay out one by one in the pan, fry on high heat to the crust, so that the juices are sealed inside the beef.
4. Cut the onion into half rings or straws.
5. Combine sour cream and mayonnaise, put crushed garlic and spices, mix the sauce. We fill with dry herbs, everything to taste.
6. Put the roasted beef and onion in layers in the pot, coat the meat with a small amount of sauce.
7. If the sauce remains, then just lay out the top.
8. Put the pots in the oven, cover and cook at 200 degrees for at least one hour.
Beef stroganoff: a classic recipe in a slow cooker
In a slow cooker, you can also make a delicious beef stroganoff, but the technology will be slightly different. Pouring the classic of sour cream and tomato paste.
Ingredients
• 0.8 kg of meat;
• 0.15 kg of onions;
• 35 ml of oil;
• 250 g sour cream;
• 3 tablespoons of flour (with a mountain);
• 1 tbsp. l tomato paste;
• spices, garlic.
Cooking
1. Pour oil into the slow cooker, turn on frying mode, let it warm up.
2. Cut the meat into slices, roll in flour, fry in parts in a slow cooker.
3. As soon as all the meat is ready, empty the crock-pot, add some oil.
4. Cut the peeled onion into strips, fry after the meat until light transparency, no need to brown the vegetable for a long time.
5. Return the previously fried meat.
6. Combine tomato paste and sour cream. Fat can take any.
7. Spice up the sauce, add to the multi-cooker saucepan. Do not forget to salt beef stroganoff. Stir and cover.
8. Rearrange the device to the stewing mode, prepare the dish for about an hour, look at the softness of the beef. It may take a little less time.
Beef stroganoff: a classic recipe with mushrooms
Another beef stroganoff recipe for the oven. Here you can use any mushrooms, but the forest will need to boil.
Ingredients
• 500 g of beef;
• 200 g onions;
• 300 g of mushrooms;
• spices and flour;
• 1 tomato;
• 1 clove garlic;
• 300 g sour cream.
Cooking
1. Cut the beef, roll the pieces in flour and fry in a griddle on both sides. We remove.
2. Cut mushrooms and fry in a skillet, a few minutes are enough.
3. Onions can also be fried, but not necessarily. Just finely chopped.
4. Mix sour cream and garlic, season with spices, deliver chopped tomato.
5. Put half the meat in a refractory dish or simply in the pot, then half the onion and mushrooms, pour half the sauce. Repeat layers.
6. Close the dishes or just pull the foil. Cook at 180 degrees for 60-80 minutes.
Beef stroganoff: a classic recipe with mustard and sour cream
This recipe is ideal for cooking beef stroganoff, if the meat is old and tough.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of meat;
• 1 onion;
• 1 tbsp. l mustard;
• 200 g sour cream;
• 50 g of flour;
• seasonings, oil.
Cooking
1. Cut into layers of beef, thickness 0.5 cm. It is not necessary to tap with a hammer, but it is not necessary to beat the meat strongly, only slightly soften the fibers.
2. Grate the pieces of mustard, leave for a couple of hours, covering with cling film.
3. Cut the prepared beef strips, roll in flour and fry.
4. At the end put the onion, lightly fried with meat and pour sour cream.
5. Season the dish with any spices, cover, simmer on low heat until soft.
Classic Beef Stroganoff - Tips and Tricks
• If the meat is not very young or has already been frozen, then you can smear pieces of beef with vodka or sprinkle before stewing. It will soften the fibers of the meat, beef stroganoff will be cooked quickly, the dish will turn out more delicious.
• Dried mushrooms will help to give the beef dish a deep, rich taste and matchless aroma. You just need to grind a few pieces and add along with other spices.
• It is not necessary for the sauce to use tomato paste. You can take ketchup, grated tomatoes, including canned vegetables. But in these cases, you need to adjust the amount yourself. If there is a lot of acid, the beef will be tough, the stew time in the sauce will increase.
