My Beef Stroganoff Recipe gets an lower fat (Trim Healthy Mama E style) makeover in this family favorite recipe. This savory beef dish boasts a flavorful, creamy gravy- it’s the perfect compliment to pasta or rice; and it’s also super quick and easy to make! (This is a reblog of an older recipe from my archives, updated with nice photos)
This ground Beef Stroganoff hasbeen a favorite of mine since I was a little girl. It’s one of those classics that my Mom taught me how to make, and itstill gets frequent requests around my own dinner table. Growing up, we made this dish with a can of cream of mushroom soup and a whole carton of sour cream. I’ve created a healthier, lighter version that’s JUST as flavorful.
If you’re a Trim Healthy Mama, you may use full fat sour cream to create a crossover meal, or use the lower fat version to create a filling E dinner when served overbrown rice.I know lots of you are wanting ideas for good E meals. Give this one a try!
Beef Stroganoff Recipe
This is what you’ll need:
1 pound of ground beef, a few cloves of garlic, one onion, a mushroom soup cube, 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk (or other dairy free, low fat alternative), 0% Greek yogurt, and glucomannan and a tablespoon of butter (not pictured). I like to serve this over brown rice, so that’s already in the cooker at this point.
Step one: Melt butter, and saute chopped up onion in a skillet until tender. Toss in chopped garlic for just a minute or so, and then add your beef. I like to brown my beef well…I like some dark brown crusty spots on the bottom. It adds such a rich beefy flavor!
Make a hole in the middle of the ground beef, and pour your milk in,
Add your mushroom cube…
Measure out 1/2-1 tsp of gluccomannan, and get your whisk ready. Sprinkle a light layer of gluccie over the top of the milk as you whisk. You should see it start pulling together into a rich, thick sauce. I start with 1/2 t. and go from there.
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Add your 0% Greek yogurt to the pan next. Stir to blend it all in.
Add salt/pepper to taste and adjust seasonings to your liking.
Serve over brown rice with a side of steamed veggies or a side salad.
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Here is your printable E style beef stroganoff recipe
Beef Stroganoff Recipe - E Style!
This is another fast family favorite that we would really eat every week. It's a filling and delicious E meal to fuel your metabolism. If you'd prefer to make it an S meal, then sub for real sour cream, and serve over Dreamfields pasta instead of rice.
Author: Gwen
Recipe type: Main Dish
Cuisine: THM E or Crossover meal
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
- 1 T. butter
- 1 small onion
- 2 cloves minced garlic (the more the better, IMO...I think I usually throw in 4-5 cloves)
- 1 lb. of ground beef
- salt and pepper to taste
- steak seasonings and parsley to taste
- 1 cream of mushroom cube (from the cream of mushroom recipe here)
- ½-1 teaspoon glucomannan powder
- 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk
- 1 cup unsweetened 0% Greek yogurt (for an E meal) or full fat sour cream (Crossover)
Instructions
- Add ground beef, and brown. Cook the beef until a toasty brown develops on the bottom of some of the meat, and it has a rich, roasted smell. Transfer meat to colander, and rinse with very hot water to remove fat. This step can be skipped if you are using a very lean grassfed beef or venison...if in doubt, just rinse.
- Chop up the onions and garlic. Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook onions in butter for a minute, and then add garlic and stir. Make a hole in the center of the skillet, and melt down a cream of mushroom soup cube.
- Pour your cup of almond milk over this, and gently sprinkle the gluccomannan into a thin layer over the liquid, whisking as you sprinkle. Stir until it comes together into a gravy.
- Stir in Sour Cream and seasonings to taste. Blend in well and cook until warmed through.
Notes
Serve immediately over ¾ cup of cooked brown rice (for an E meal) or cooked Dreamfields noodles, and add an E side dish (beets, cooked carrots) or an E dessert (peach Tummy Tucking Ice Cream!)
To create a Crossover meal, serve with an S side dish or dessert, &/or use full fat sour cream in place of the Greek yogurt.
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FAQs
Quartered mushrooms and a combination of pearl onions and shallots give the finished dish a more interesting texture and flavor. Adding gelatin to the chicken stock gives it more body, letting the sauce come together more tightly to coat the meat and noodles.
How do I thicken up my stroganoff sauce? ›
Luckily, there's a quick and easy solution waiting quietly in your pantry — cornstarch. Cornstarch is a reliable and widely used thickening agent, that works in sauces, gravies, and soups.
What is the most tender cut of beef for beef stroganoff? ›
The best cuts of beef for stroganoff are tender, juicy cuts such as: boneless rib eye – also called scotch fillet (pictured above) boneless sirloin. sirloin steak tips.
What is the best substitute for sour cream in stroganoff? ›
Greek yogurt is a healthy alternative to the traditionally used sour cream in beef stroganoff recipes, so you can be confident that your family is getting a satisfying, healthy meal. Fresh dill and paprika will provide a sweet, slightly smoky garnish to top off the dish.
How do you fix bland beef stroganoff? ›
Solution: Choose beef tenderloin for superior texture. Sauté button mushrooms, then brown the beef in the same pan and deglaze the pan with beef broth. For more complexity, prepare a sauce with onion, tomato paste, brown sugar, chicken broth, and wine. Sour cream can curdle if added directly to hot liquid.
What is the sauce in beef stroganoff made of? ›
Sauce Ingredients: Butter, onion, garlic, white wine, beef stock, Worcestershire sauce, flour and plain Greek yogurt (or sour cream) are the ingredients used to make classic beef stroganoff sauce. If you prefer not to cook with wine, feel free to just add in a little extra beef stock instead.
How do you add sour cream to stroganoff without curdling? ›
A splash of brandy, a couple cups of beef broth, some mustard and paprika, Worcestershire sauce and sour cream. The secret here is to wait to add the sour cream until the very end, temper it with a bit of the hot broth and then add it to the pan just long enough to warm it, as boiling can cause it to curdle.
Why is my beef stroganoff runny? ›
If too runny, add more flour-water mixture and if too thick, add more sour cream.
How do you stop cream curdling in beef stroganoff? ›
How do you keep sour cream from curdling in beef stroganoff? Remove some of the liquid from your stroganoff and allow it to cool. In a small bowl, take several tablespoons of the sour cream (or however much you require) and then add a teaspoon of the cooled liquid from the stew.
Is Stroganoff Russian or German? ›
Beef Stroganoff is a popular Russian dish of small pieces of beef fillet sautéed in sour cream sauce together with onions and mushrooms. The dish was named after Count Alexander Grigorievich Stroganoff, who lived in the late 19th century in Odessa.
The "secret" in this recipe that makes it so special is treatment of the meat with the baking soda. It ensures a wonderfully tender and velvety beef (you can use the same process with your Mongolian Beef recipe to get the same texture that the restaurants achieve).
What is the hardest cut of beef to cook? ›
Shank. Shank is arguably the toughest, cheapest cut of beef. Located in front of the brisket at the cow's forearm, this beef cut is notable for its sinewy dryness. Due to its lack of popularity, shank is not typically found in retail stores.
Can I use heavy cream instead of sour cream? ›
If you find yourself with an empty or unusable container of sour cream, you can always make some from scratch using 1 cup of heavy cream combined with a teaspoon of lemon juice or white vinegar. The process will mimic the creation of sour cream in texture, though many people feel like the taste is not quite the same.
What can you use if you don't have enough sour cream? ›
Yogurt is your best substitute for sour cream. Whether you're baking or making a dip or sauce, yogurt is a 1:1 sub. That means if your recipe calls for 1 cup of sour cream, you can replace it with 1 cup of yogurt.
Does Greek yogurt cook the same as sour cream? ›
Baked goods made with yogurt as a straight substitute for sour cream will turn out less tender, lighter in texture and have a tangier, less buttery flavor.
What can you add to a dish to make it taste better? ›
Add hardy herbs like thyme, rosemary, oregano, sage, and marjoram to dishes early in the cooking process; this way, they release maximum flavor while ensuring that their texture will be less intrusive.
What can you add to sour cream? ›
Add chopped fresh cilantro leaves and lime juice to plain sour cream for a fresh zesty flavor.
How do you make sour taste better? ›
If a dish is too sour, add a little bit of sugar! Sweetness balances out sour flavors, so if something makes your mouth pucker, a dash of sugar may help soften the blow of the sour food.
