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🇷🇺 Dinner · Russia
Beef Stroganoff
Beef Stroganoff was born in the kitchen of Count Pavel Stroganov in 1890s Saint Petersburg, when his French chef adapted the classic of tender beef in sour-cream sauce to win a cooking competition. The Stroganov family fortune came from Siberian salt and furs; their cosmopolitan tables blended Russian comfort with French technique, and this dish — quick, rich, restorative against the long winter — travelled with émigrés across the twentieth century to become an international classic.
Rich in protein
Filling and nutritious
Can be frozen
Great for meal prep
One-pot
Minimal washing up
Traditional recipe
Authentic taste
Ingredients 6 servings
- 600 g beef tenderloin, sliced into strips
- 300 g button mushrooms
- 1 onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 200 ml sour cream
- 2 tbsp mustard
- 200 ml beef stock
- 2 tbsp butter
- Salt, pepper, parsley
How to make it
- 1Cut the beef tenderloin into strips against the grain, no thicker than a pencil — thicker pieces stay tough in the short cook time.
- 2Pat them completely dry, season with salt and pepper, then dust lightly with flour.
- 3Heat a wide pan very hot, add a knob of butter and oil, and sear the beef in two or three batches without crowding the pan, just thirty seconds a side, until browned outside and still pink within.
- 4Lift onto a plate and rest.
- 5In the same pan, lower the heat and soften finely sliced onion in butter, then add the mushrooms and let them brown deeply without stirring for the first three minutes.
- 6Pour in the beef stock and a splash of brandy if you have it, scrape up every brown bit from the base, and reduce by half.
- 7Take the pan completely off the heat — the critical step — and stir in the sour cream and the mustard until smooth; if it boils now, the cream splits.
- 8Return the beef and any resting juices to the pan, swirl through to warm, taste for salt, and shower with chopped parsley.
- 9Serve immediately over buttered noodles, mash, or steamed rice.
Nutritional info
per serving (~400 ml)
Calories 475 kcal
Protein 36 g
Carbs 18 g
Fat 23 g
Fiber 3 g
Estimated nutritional values.
Pairs perfectly with
🥖 Rye bread
🥣 Smetana
🥒 Pickled cucumbers
🌿 Fresh dill
