Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
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.
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.
Step 3:
Next, cut large pieces lengthwise into long strips - this is the classic slicing of beef stroganoff.
Step 4:
Peel the onion and cut it into thin half rings.
Step 5:
Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the chopped onion until transparent, stirring it with a spatula.
Step 6:
Roll the sliced meat in wheat flour.
Step 7:
Put the floured meat in a frying pan with onions.
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.
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