Beef and Mushrooms in Cream Sauce
Tender beef and mushrooms in a fragrant cream sauce. This beef with mushrooms in sauce is fast, simple, and delicious, and the meat turns out incredibly tender. It rounds out any side dish for a family dinner and pairs with just about any drink, whether or not there's alcohol involved.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make beef and mushrooms in cream sauce? Here's what you'll need.
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Step 2:
Cut the beef into bite-size pieces.
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Step 3:
Sear until lightly browned on all sides — this took me about 15–20 minutes.
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Step 4:
Cut the mushrooms into large chunks — I quartered mine, since they were on the small side.
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Step 5:
Sauté the mushrooms in a separate skillet in vegetable oil for about 5 minutes.
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Step 6:
Meanwhile, cut the onion into thin quarter-rings.
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Step 7:
After 5 minutes, add the onion to the mushrooms and sauté everything together for about 7–9 minutes.
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Step 8:
Add the mushrooms and onion to the seared beef and simmer everything together for about 5 minutes.
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Step 9:
Pour the cream into the pan and simmer everything together, covered, for about 20 minutes.
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Step 10:
Our fragrant beef and mushrooms are ready.
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Step 11:
Any side dish works here. Enjoy!
- All oils are healthy only up to a certain temperature — the smoke point, at which the oil starts to burn and forms toxic compounds, including carcinogens. To learn how to gauge frying temperatures and choose the best oil for the job (and which oils to avoid altogether), read here.
- Note: the wrong pan can ruin even the best recipe. For all the details on choosing the perfect skillet for different dishes, read here.
- For tips, tricks, and all the most useful advice, read the article: "Cream and sour cream in a cream sauce: how to keep them from curdling?"
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Melted beef fat - 871 kcal/100g
- Fat beef - 171 kcal/100g
- Lean beef - 158 kcal/100g
- Beef brisket - 217 kcal/100g
- Beef - okovalok - 380 kcal/100g
- Beef - lean roast - 200 kcal/100g
- Beef shoulder - 137 kcal/100g
- Beef - ribs - 233 kcal/100g
- Beef - ham - 104 kcal/100g
- Beef - tail - 184 kcal/100g
- Boiled ham - 269 kcal/100g
- Beef corned beef - 216 kcal/100g
- Buttermilk - 36 kcal/100g
- Cream of 20% fat content - 300 kcal/100g
- Cream of 10% fat content - 120 kcal/100g
- Cream - 300 kcal/100g
- Champignons - 24 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Table salt - 0 kcal/100g
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