Easiest Way to Cook Perfect Stroganoff

Stroganoff. Try our no prep no mess Oven Ready meals with everything included - even the cooking tray! This recipe uses a roux to create a beef gravy that is then thickened with sour cream AND cream cheese. A little bit of zip is added using pepper flakes.

Stir in the flour, salt and paprika. With all that flavor, you might assume it's a complicated dish, but it's actually quite the opposite. Heat until the butter is melted and the oil is hot. You can cook Stroganoff using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Stroganoff

1. Prepare 2 tbsp of oil.
2. Prepare 3/4 packages of pasta (I prefer bows).
3. You need 1 of onion.
4. You need 2 tbsp of minced garlic.
5. You need 1 tbsp of tomato paste.
6. Prepare 1 of Stroganoff powder mix.
7. It's 400 grams of mushrooms ( really up to you).
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of cornflour.
9. It's 500 ml of thickened cream.
10. You need 1/2 tsp of mild paprika.
11. It's 1 of stock chicken or beef stock cube.
12. It's 1 kg of chicken breast or beef strips.
13. You need 1 of sour cream.

Add the meat in batches and brown on both. Stroganoff sauce is a sour cream gravy made with beef broth that's thickened with flour. It's flavoured with mustard and has mushrooms in it. I love the pale brown creamy colour against the deep golden brown seared beef!

Stroganoff step by step

1. Mix thickened cream, cornflour and paprika together. Dice up the onion, put stock cube into a normal sized glass and stir with boiling water until dissolved.. leave all this aside and ready to go..
2. if using chicken breast, cut into small strips. If using beef buy strips/stir fry. Cook meat, once cooked put aside..
3. cook onion, garlic and mushrooms together (I add butter to this) Boil water in a pot and put the pasta on..
4. add tomato paste to the mushrooms and stir through for approx 5 mins.
5. add meat and mix through thoroughly.
6. add stock mix and stir, turn down and leave for 10 mins..
7. sprinkle Stroganoff powder mix over the top and mix through, Do not use the whole packet, just a little sprinkle over the top..
8. add thickened cream mix and stir through. careful not to have it on to high. give it ten mins with a little stir every so often.
9. Add the pasta and stir through ...... Now Serve. :) add a dab of sour cream and a bit of salt n pepper..

This version maintains all the classic flavors of the traditional dish, combining lean beef and onions with a creamy sauce made of a roux, beef broth, and sour cream. Cook noodles according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, cook the beef, mushrooms and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink. Remove the first batch to a bowl and cook the rest of the meat. Remove and set all the meat aside.