Beef Stroganoff + Home cooking photos!

Recipe time!
This one is for Beef Stroganoff. It's my uncle George's recipe something I remember having for years and years now I recently made it here in New Zealand for my boyfriend. He seems to like it fine since he had 2 bowls of it in one sitting. *giggle* I will warn you this recipe is set up in New Zealand measurements but the instructions are the same.


Ingredients:

1/2 Kilo Round Steak, thinly sliced
1/4 Kilo Button Mushrooms, sliced
Half of a medium-sized brown onion, chopped
250 ml sour cream
65 mil flour
250 ml beef broth (or red wine) (I used beef stock)

Butter for mushrooms
Vegetable oil for onion and steak
Ketchup

The trick to getting thin slices from the round steak is to partially freeze it and then cut. It's best if the slices are 2-3 mm; thinner than that is not better.  The best you can get without freezing is about 5 mm.

So, start by slicing the mushrooms, chopping the onion, and slicing the steak.

Dredge the steak in the flour so the slices are coated.

Saute the mushrooms in butter and set aside in a bowl
Saute the onion in vegetable oil and set aside in a bowl
Saute the steak until the redness is gone.  The flour, oil and steak juices make a roux
Add the liquid and mix thoroughly, scraping up and mixing in any bits that stuck to the bottom of the pan.   Add a spoonful or so of Ketchup at this point, mix again, and reduce for a minute or tow.
Now turn to low heat and add the onions, mushrooms and sour cream.  Mix and heat but do not allow it to boil.   This step takes less than a minute.
Serve immediately with rice pilaf


-- George