Categories: BeefMain Dishes

Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream

This recipe features a small modification to the beef stroganoff recipe I posted earlier, but a good one: a cup of cream and cremini mushrooms give this dish a very rich taste.

Field mushrooms will also work good in this recipe, but cremini are the best.

As usual, I suggest serving beef stroganoff with a side of boiled buckwheat, it tastes great with mushrooms and cream and, of course, beef.

Ingredients:

  • 3lb of beef sirloin
  • 8oz of mushrooms, I used cremini mushrooms
  • 1-1.5 cups of heavy whipping cream
  • 5-6 bay leaves
  • 1 big onion
  • 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour
  • Ground black pepper to taste
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil, I prefer sunflower oil

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 1
  2. Warm up high side skillet with 2 tablespoons of oil over moderate heat. Peel onions, slice them in quarter circles, move them to the warmed up skillet and fry until brown and soft, stir occasionally:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 2
  3. Clean and slice mushrooms, add them to the skillet, stir and fry:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 3
  4. While mushrooms are cooking, slice meat into thin stripes:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 4
  5. Cook mushrooms with onions until juices evaporate:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 5
  6. Increase heat and add all meat to the skillet:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 6
  7. Stir and fry until all meat is colored from each side:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 7
  8. Then stir flour in:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 8
  9. Add bay leaves:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 9
  10. And cream:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 10
  11. Salt to taste:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 11
  12. And season with ground black pepper; cover with a lid, reduce heat to moderate and cook until meat is soft:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 12
  13. Serve as a main course with your choice of the side dish, I still think that boiled buckwheat is the best choice of side dish for beef stroganoff:
    Beef Stroganoff with Mushrooms and Cream Recipe: Step 13
Enjoy!

View Comments

  • Happy New Year Julia! Made this last night, very tasty! I was wondering though, we didn't have heavy cream back in the day, what did people use for the recipe? Sour cream? Milk? Also, I noticed some recipes include cognac and beef broth, have you tried it? Does it really alter the taste much?

    • I think sour cream will work too, I do the version of this recipe with chicken and use sour cream for it. Never tried cognac, beef broth will be good addition I think.

  • I think this looks really yummy! This is beef stroganoff like my Mom makes it. My husband is completely averse to mushrooms so I don't get to make it with mushrooms.