Aunt Nedras Beef Stroganoff Recipes

NANA'S BEEF STROGANOFF

Steps:

• Shake 1 tablespoon flour with salt in a large, resealable plastic bag until combined; add beef and shake to coat.
• Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Brown beef in the hot butter, about 3 minutes per side. Stir mushrooms, onion, and garlic into beef; cook and stir until garlic is fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer beef and vegetables to a bowl, leaving drippings in skillet.
• Melt 2 more tablespoons butter in skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir 3 tablespoons flour in the hot butter until smooth; stir tomato paste into flour mixture. Whisk beef stock into mixture and cook, stirring constantly, until sauce is thickened and bubbling, about 5 minutes.
• Return beef and vegetables to skillet and stir to coat with sauce. Reduce heat to very low and simmer until beef is tender, 2 to 3 hours. The longer it cooks, the more tender the meat will be. Just before serving, stir sour cream and white wine into beef mixture and heat through. Do not boil.

AUNT EVA'S SWEDISH STROGANOFF

Steps:

• Melt dripping in a pan that is large and heavy enough to hold at least 6 quarts of liquid and meat at a simmer for 4 hours.
• When dripping is at a "sizzle", add the cubed beef in small enough batches to thoroughly brown the cubes. Remove as soon as they start to "bleed-out.".
• When all beef is browned, add onion, stirring well until translucent but not too soft.
• Reduce heat to medium low and return the beef to the pot when your pan has cooled a bit. (Keep stirring while the pan cools, or just take the onions out.).
• Sprinkle flour over the cubes and stir well, scraping the bottom of the pot, until the flour is well-distributed.
• With heat still at medium low, return onions, if you removed them earlier.
• Gradually add the liquid, stirring and scraping the pot all the time to incorporate everything together.
• Turn heat up to med-high and bring contents to a slow boil.
• Reduce heat to simmer, cover and simmer, checking for liquid level and stirring occasionally. Add more broth if the liquid is getting too thick. You want enough liquid to make sure your cubes get tender.
• After about 4 hours, the beef should be tender and your liquid getting harder to thin. That's a good thing. It's hard to judge just exactly what the consistency should be without some experience. Keep at it, everyone seems to end up with a stroganoff that is runny or really thick at one time or another.
• Remove the pot from the heat, allow to cool just enough that the sour cream won't break when you put it inches.
• If you aren't sure about this, put in a cereal spoonful and see if it curdles or separates into curds and whey. If it does, it's too hot.
• When the beef mixture has cooled enough, gently fold in the sour cream, stirring slowly and steady until it incorporates completely with the rest of the ingredients.
• Serve immediately with egg noodles or on rice, if you prefer.

BEEF STROGANOV

Steps:

• Place some clarified butter into a pan on high heat. Add the onions and allow to fry for 2 minutes until golden brown. Add the meat, season with salt and black pepper and allow to fry gently for 5 minutes. Stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute. Add the catsup combined with the Worcestershire sauce and then stir in the sour cream. Allow the Stroganov to simmer for 4 minutes. Serve accompanied with French fried potatoes, if desired.

AUNT LILA'S HAMBURGER STROGANOFF

Steps:

• Prepare rice, salt and water"according to manufacturer's directions".
• In large skillet, saute onion in butter until golden.
• Stir in beef, garlic, flour, salt, MSG, paprika, pepper and mushrooms.
• Cook for 5 minutes.
• Add soup and simmer 10 minutes, uncovered and stirring occasionally.
• Stir in sour cream until well combined.
• Serve over hot rice.

AUNT NEDRA'S BEEF STROGANOFF

Steps:

• Chop beef and mushrooms, then add to a large skillet. Add garlic powder, and fryuntil the beef is done. Add tomato juice then cook until dry. Add mushroom soup and fold in sour cream. Cook until hot. Serve over rice or noodles