Beef Stroganoff with cream

Incredibly delicious, very fast and easy, for the second! Beef Stroganoff with cream is cooked quickly enough, especially if you take tender fresh beef for them. The meat is stewed until it becomes soft. The dish is combined with any vegetable side dish, pasta, cereals, porridges. It's delicious!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 48 % 15 g
Fats 39 % 12 g
Carbohydrates 13 % 4 g
200 kcal
GI: 50 / 0 / 50

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make beef stroganoff with cream? Prepare the products for cooking. Take 10% cream for the sauce, it will turn out more delicately with them than with fatty ones, although this is a matter of taste. Tomato paste can be replaced with tomatoes in their own juice. Take refined vegetable oil.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the meat well and then dry it with a paper towel. Cut it as follows: first into large pieces, necessarily across the fibers! If the beef is old or the piece is not very successful, then beat off these pieces with a meat hammer.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Next, cut large pieces lengthwise into long strips - this is the classic slicing of beef stroganoff.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Peel the onion and cut it into thin half rings.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the chopped onion until transparent, stirring it with a spatula.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Roll the sliced meat in wheat flour.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Put the floured meat in a frying pan with onions.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Stir-fry the meat from all sides until the color changes. By this process, we sort of seal the juice inside, the meat remains juicy and soft.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Pour cream into the pan, add tomato paste, salt, pepper and mix well. Leave to simmer on low heat for 30-60 minutes, depending on the readiness of the meat. Make sure that the sauce does not boil off, you can add a little boiling water if this happens.

Classic beef stroganoff is always made from beef, which is why it is written with the prefix bef, which means beef. But you can safely apply this recipe to both chicken and pork, it will also turn out delicious. With chicken, it will be necessary to reduce the extinguishing time.
Initially, the sauce in the recipe is sour cream, so that it does not curdle when stewing, dilute it before pouring hot water into the meat, add water in portions, stirring constantly. With cream, the sauce turns out to be more tender and not so sour.
You can add mushrooms to the meat, it will turn out very tasty! Especially if it's white, but champignons will do.
Only pepper is recommended from spices.

Note that the quality and taste of the finished dish largely depends on the proper defrosting of the ingredients. How to avoid mistakes and choose the best way, read the article about defrosting.

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Secrets, life hacks and all the most useful tips read in the article: "Cream and sour cream in cream sauce: what to do so that they don't curl up?"

Calorie content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • 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
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g

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