Beef Stroganoff

Ingredients:

• 2 lb of round roast beef
• 1 big onion
• 4-5 bay leaves
• 2-3 spoons of all purpose flour
• Black pepper
• Sunflower oil
• Salt by taste

How to make, step-by-step:

1. Prepare the following ingredients:
   

   

2. Skin onion and slice it into half-rings:
   

   

3. Warm up frying pan with the 2 tablespoons of oil on low heat. Put onion on a pan and fry it till it become yellow (approx. 10-15 mins):
   

   

4. While onion if being prepared you need to cut meat into stripes, it will be easier to do if meat is a bit frozen. So start with slicing meat into pieces of ¼ of the inch (approx.), like it is shown on the photo below:
   

   

5. After, cut each pf pieces into stripes:
   

   

6. You will get stripes like the following:
   

   

7. When onion is ready (it gains yellow color), increase heat under the frying pan, move onion to the side of the pan and put there meat. You need to fry all meat over on the high heat, don’t forget to steer onion so it won’t burn:
   

   

8. After you fried each meat piece over, mix meat with onion, add salt, black pepper and all bay leaves. Put lid on, reduce heat to low and let meet stew for 10-15 mins, depends of the quality of your meat you may need to let it stew for more time if you are tasting meat and it looks too hard:
   

   

9. When meat is ready, remove lid and strew 2-3 table spoons flour over the meat, steer everything, put lid on and let it stew for 5 mins more. Make sure heat is not high to avoid flour from burning:
   

   

10. Turn the heat off, Beef Stroganoff is ready! I think boiled buckwheat is the best choice of side for this dish: