STROGANOFF Ground Beef Recipe
This is homemade Stroganoff Ground Beef Recipe is much tastier than from a boxed package. That’s because you control what goes into it. And, you’re using some fresh ingredients. This is part of our Main Dishes, Pasta, Ground Beef, French Cuisine, and Stove Top Recipes categories.
Best Stroganoff Recipe Ground Beef
It’s easy to make the best Stroganoff Recipe ground beef dinner with these key ingredients. Below are shown some of them.
Homemade Stroganoff Ground Beef
This homemade Stroganoff ground beef meat uses a 80/20 meat/fat mixture.
Hamburger Stroganoff Mushroom Soup
This is a hamburger Stroganoff mushroom soup recipe made easy. You can also use the golden mushroom soup. And, when it comes to mushrooms, if you used canned mushrooms, you’ll want to ensure you drain it before adding it in, before the beef mixture.
Ground Beef Stroganoff Beef Broth
I’ve made it with several variations of beef broth. We’ve used the boxed and canned premade beef broth and the low-sodium broth. And, I also used the cubes and granules you need to add to boiled water. I always keep a jar of granulated beef broth handy. I can easily microwave a cup of water, add a teaspoon of granules, and I then have 1 cup of beef broth.
Ground Beef Stroganoff Recipe with Sour Cream
When you make this ground beef stroganoff recipe with sour cream, you’ll have that unique creamy flavor. There are some alternatives mentioned later; however, the basic recipe calls for regular sour cream. The section on variations lists some substitutions and different options.
Hamburger Noodle Stroganoff
This great recipe uses an initial bed of egg noodles on a plate. The meat mixture is layered on top before serving.
Ground Beef Stroganoff Recipe EASY
The steps show how to make this ground beef Stroganoff recipe easy. The steps are in an order to save you time overall. For example, you don’t have to sauté the onions separately, as well as the mushrooms. You can do them all in their own skillet. We’ve developed how to do it all in the same pan. We’ve made it many times and have changed out the steps to be much more efficient than most other recipes you’ll read. We focus on cutting back on total time spent.
Using a bag for flouring the meat makes it easy to set the meat aside until ready to cook. You can toss the ingredients into the pan as the onions are being sautéed. All of these reasons are why it’s such an easy recipe. Because we’ve reorganized the preparing and cooking steps, this quick recipe is much faster than a classic stroganoff recipe.
Can I prepare ground beef stroganoff in advance?
If you’re going to make it about an hour or two in advance, you can keep the meat mixture (minus the sour cream) on a low heat. Shortly before meal time, the noodles can be cooked in under 10 minutes.
If you’re wanting to prepare it a day in advance, you can prep and cut ahead of time and store in the fridge. I don’t recommend adding the flour to the meat until you’re about ready to cook though.
Another alternative for a day in advance, is to cook the meat mixture but leave out the sour cream. Then, you can store it in the fridge. The noodles are best when they’re cooked just prior to mealtime.
Can I freeze this ground beef stroganoff for leftovers?
After it’s cooked, yes. Any noodles might not do as well and might be a bit mushy so, some fresh noodles might be better.
Ground Beef Stroganoff TASTY
This is what makes this a very tasty recipe. With the nature of it being homemade, and you’re using fresh onions and mushrooms, you’re on the road to great flavor. Using minced garlic instead of garlic powder, will add to that melding of tastes.
Also, you cook egg noodles and meat mixture separately to to have a distinctness that adds to the individual flavors and textures in each bite. And, finally, with all the recommended ingredients, combined with the low simmering of 20-25 minutes, you’ll get that gourmet flavor from this good recipe. It’s much better tasting than hamburger helper.
Just remember that you don’t stir in sour cream, you “fold” it in. This means you do spread it around but you want to retain the distinct white coloring and avoid mixing it in thoroughly. It’s better with the separation of its flavor.
Variations of Hamburger Stroganoff
Whether you’re out of one of the ingredients or if you have other preferences, there are a lot of changes you can make for this recipe. If you don’t want to add mushrooms, you can just skip that item and keep the mushroom soup. Some people will add in a can of cream of chicken soup to this recipe.
If you are out of onion and garlic, you can of course, opt for the powdered versions of those 2 ingredients. Regarding the olive oil, you can use regular vegetable oil instead. Some will, due to its French influence on this Russian recipe, will replace all the oil and use only butter instead.
And lastly, as some recipes of this will have Worcestershire sauce, you can opt to add in 1 teaspoon.
What Sides to Serve with Stroganoff Ground Beef Recipe
You can serve a lot of different sides with this dish. However, here are some that go exceptionally well.
- cottage cheese with pineapple
- diced cantaloupe
- cantaloupe salad
- green beans
- green beans and carrots
- squash or zucchini; read more about difference between zucchini and yellow squash
- dinner rolls
- basic romaine lettuce salad
- cucumber salad onion tomato
- glass of wine
Leftover Beef Stroganoff
With leftovers, you can often just reheat the meat mixture, add a little water to it, and serve on a bed of fresh egg noodles or rice.
Ground Beef Stroganoff Calories
The nutritional values are shown in the <Print Recipe> option. And, you’ll notice, it wasn’t made using any salt addition.
Healthy Hamburger Stroganoff Recipe Variations
Here are some substitutions to make that can improve the nutritional values even further. You can replace the sour cream with a low-fat sour cream. Alternately, you can replace half of the sour cream with plain Greek yogurt. Or, instead of sour cream at all, you can replace it with half the amount of plain, unflavored almond milk.
Regarding the beef broth, you can opt for the low sodium beef broth. With the ground beef, you can replace half with ground turkey or ground chicken. Out of noodles? Try it on a bed of white rice. Or, over a split baked potato! And, on an extreme variation, you can skip the meat completely, and just enjoy the broth instead of beef being added.
Conclusion
This follows a somewhat classic beef stroganoff endeavor but it ends up as the ultimate quick, comfort food you can make with lean ground beef, fresh mushrooms, and easy-to-follow steps to definitely make this new recipe. I’ve made many variations over the decades, and I hope you make and love this recipe too.
It has an interesting story about a French chef who made it for a Russian leader. Here’s a good write-up about the history of beef stroganoff from forknplate.com.
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Ingredients
- 10 cups water only for cooking noodles
- 6 cups extra wide egg noodles uncooked (6 cups = about 10-12 oz)
- 1½ lbs ground beef
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp minced garlic or 1/2 amt garlic powder
- 4 Tbsp olive oil or vegetable oil
- 2 Tbsp butter
- ½ lbs mushrooms, sliced or small can sliced mushrooms, drained
- 2 medium sweet onions, diced or 1 heaping tbsp. onion powder per 2 onions
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 2 cups beef broth
- ½ tsp Ground Black Pepper
- ¼ tsp paprika
- 8 ozs sour cream
- 1 tsp parsley flakes optional
Instructions
- Use a plastic/paper bag to coat the ground beef with the flour. Ensure the meat is broken apart for good flour distribution. Set aside in fridge.1½ lbs ground beef, ½ cup all-purpose flour
- In a medium-high, preheated large frying pan, add oil, diced onions, and sliced mushrooms. Sauté for about 5 minutes.4 Tbsp olive oil, 2 medium sweet onions, diced, ½ lbs mushrooms, sliced
- Add in the floured ground beef, spices, and butter. Mix well and brown the meat for about 5 minutes.1½ lbs ground beef, 1 tsp minced garlic, ½ tsp Ground Black Pepper, ¼ tsp paprika, 2 Tbsp butter
- Stir in the mushroom soup and beef broth. Scrape the pan bottom with spatula to ensure nothing is sticking. Reduce heat to low. Cover with a tilted lid. Cook for 20 minutes. While meat mixture is cooking, continue to next step to cook egg noodles.1 can cream of mushroom soup, 2 cups beef broth
- Boil about 10 cups water in pot and cook egg noodles for about 8 minutes. Then, strain in colander and return to same, emptied pot, lightly oiled, covered, and set aside off burner.6 cups extra wide egg noodles, 10 cups water
- When meat and pasta are both done, fold the sour cream into the meat mixture.8 ozs sour cream
- Serve by spooning meat mixture over a bed of noodles on a plate or in a bowl. Optionally, sprinkle a small amount of the parsley over each serving.1 tsp parsley flakes
Nutrition
Tastes a ton better than those boxed packages of stroganof. Really tasted good.