Elegant But Easy
Beef Stroganoff

Beef Stroganoff consists of thin slices of tender beef, onions and sliced mushrooms, all quickly sautéed in butter and combined with a sour cream sauce. Stroganoff is usually accompanied by rice pilaf or noodles.

This is one of those elegant dishes that I’ve seemed to always shy away from in the past. But it’s really easy to prepare in spite of the long list of ingredients.

Beef Stroganoff

1/4 pound beef tenderloin
1/2 teaspoon pepper, or to taste
2 teaspoons butter
3 cups fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 medium onion, sliced
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 cups Beef Broth
3 tablespoons no-salt added tomato paste
3 tablespoons dry sherry
2 teaspoons dry mustard
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled
1/2 teaspoon dried dill weed, crumbled
1/2 cup sour cream

Put the beef tenderloin in a freezer for 30 minutes for easier slicing. Slice the beef tenderloin into thin strips about 2 inches long. Sprinkle with pepper.

Heat the butter in a large, heavy skillet over medium-high heat, swirling to coat the bottom. Sauté the mushrooms until tender, about 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a plate.

Sauté the onion in the same skillet until brown, about 3 to 4 minutes. Add to the mushrooms.

Add the beef tenderloin to skillet and brown quickly on all sides to rare, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add to the mushrooms.

Add the flour to the skillet. Gradually pour in the broth, whisking constantly. Cook over medium-high heat for 2 to 3 minutes, or until thickened, whisking constantly.

Reduce the heat to low. Whisk in the remaining ingredients except the sour cream.

Stir in the mushrooms, onions, and meat. Cook for 15 minutes. Pour sour cream in a small amount of beef tenderloin mixture. Add sour cream mixture to skillet and cook for 5 minutes, or until heated through, stirring occasionally.

The chef who devised the recipe worked for the Russian diplomat Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov, a member of one of Russia's grandest noble families.

It is rumored that beef stroganoff was initially made in order to impress a guest at the dinner table.

Little did the Stroganoff family expect the dish would be such an enormous success.

Beef Stroganoff was so widely praised it became one of Russia's tastiest traditions.

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