Homemade Beef Stroganoff Recipe
June 20, 2009 by Tom
Filed under Beef Recipes
Have you ever eaten an amazing Beef Stroganoff in a high class restaurant and wished to replicate that intense distinctive flavour yourself? I know I have, and finally after several attempts at mastering the perfect Beef Stroganoff I have created what I would consider to be the best recipe around (if I do say so myself!).
We sometimes try to hard to master dishes such as this and the secret to this recipe is in it’s simplicity. Over complicating food with too many ingredients can sometimes lead you astray but if you step back and look at the raw ingredients required to create homemade Beef Stroganoff, you end up with a simple but delicious version true to the original dish. So, here is my tried and tested version of this classic dish, give it a try and let me know how you got on!
Simple Homemade Beef Stroganoff
Ingredients
Homemade Beef Stroganoff
450g of chuck steak, trimmed and cut into 1cm strips (you can also use filet steak but it is expensive and lean chuck steak in my view is just as tender and more flavoursome)
10 fl oz of soured cream
200g of sliced mushrooms
1 Tsp of Worchester Sauce
1 Tsp Paprika
Juice of 1/2 a fresh Lemon
3 Tbs of Cognac
2 x finely slice large onions
How To Cook
1. Heat a heavy based frying pan on the hob and add 2 tablespoons of oil.
2. Season the chuck steak strips with salt and freshly ground pepper and add half to the now hot oil and fry until browned.
3. Remove the cooked strips into a warm bowl and add the remaining steak strips and fry again until brown.
4. Place remaining steak strips into the warmed bowl including the juices from the pan.
5. Melt a knob of butter in the same pan and fry the onions for 2-3 minutes until soft and translucent and then add the mushrooms and cook until tender.
6. Take your browned steak strips and juices and pour back into the frying pan with the mushrooms and onions.
7. Carefully spoon over 3 tbs of Cognac keeping the heat high. The Cognac will catch fire and the alcohol will burn off, take care at this stage and stir/shake the frying pan until the flame has gone out.
8. Remove from the heat and stir in the soured cream and add the paprika.
9. Return the pan to the heat add the lemon juice and simmer at the lowest setting whilst stirring.
10. Taste the sauce and add salt and pepper if required.
As you can see, the ingredients of this homemade Beef Stroganoff are fairly simple and clean which is why it tastes so good! Serve with plain boiled white rice and steamed green beans! Enjoy your cooking.
