Ground Beef Stroganov

The meat staples in my freezer are chicken thighs, a whole chicken, bone-in pork chops, beef tenderloins and ground beef. Add a vegetarian dinner and a fish night and that’s pretty much our weekly protein load. When it comes to ground beef I pretty much cycle through meatballs, tacos, meatloaf and burgers. All of which are very tasty and all of which we are totally sick of eating.

I started to google ground beef dishes and came across several recipes for ground beef stroganoff. Since I knew that I had a bag of egg noodles in my pantry I decided to give this old school dish a try and I am glad I did. It was tasty, filling, and will feed a family for a few days. Practical, hearty stuff. Like Russians themselves.

We once had Russian neighbors (Tanya & Yuri) back in Ohio who ADORED our children. Anyone that likes my kids is automatically in my good graces. But they were also generous, funny and kept a bottle of the best vodka I ever had in their freezer. I never had beef stroganoff at their house though.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 lbs of ground beef
• 1/2 stick of butter (or more because its butter so more is always good as long as you’re not baking, ugh this thought got way too long)
• 1 sweet onion chopped
• 1 carton of mushrooms sliced
• 2 T chopped garlic (I like the jar kind)
• 2 cups of beef broth
• 2 T Worcestshire Sauce
• 2 T Dijon mustard
• 2 T flour
• 1 cup of sour cream
• chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
• salt & pepper

Brown the ground beef in a non-stick skillet until done. Set aside in a bowl. In the same pan, melt the butter and add the chopped onion, garlic and mushrooms. Cook over medium heat stirring often. Add 1 cup of the beef broth, the Worcestshire sauce, the mustard and the flour. Cook until gently boiling then add the other cup of beef broth and the sour cream and stir until composed. Add the beef to the sauce and stir. Reduce heat to low and allow to cook for 10 minutes, adding salt and pepper to taste.

Meanwhile, boil at least 12 cups of water in a large stock pot–adding a handful of salt. Cook egg noodles until done. Place a serving of noodles on each plate (or bowl), ladle in some sauce and garnish with the fresh chopped parsley. Add a salad and you have another ground beef dinner.

And the reviews are in….

“this is really good Rho, I’ll take some leftovers.” –Papa Ron

“this shit is bomb Mom.” –Sav

“good Ronnie.” –Jeff

With that kind of praise its no wonder that cooking is a labor of love for me, no?

Spasiba!