Beef Stroganoff--- Pretty Simple, Very Delicious
- 3 12 lbs stewing beef or 3 12 lbs round steaks
- 2 onions, chopped
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 23 cup cooking oil (or sufficient to brown the stew beef and fry the onions)
- 2 cups milk (more if needed to thin sauce)
- 2 (10 3/4 ounce) condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 2 (10 3/4 ounce) condensed cream of chicken soup
- 1 tablespoon dill weed (packaged)
- 1 tablespoon sweet paprika (not hot)
- 12 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 16 ounces of uncooked egg noodles
- Spread meat out on chopping board and tenderize with meat cleaver, heavy knife or meat mallet, pounding to break the tough fiber in the meat.
- If not stew beef and not already cut into bite sized pieces, cut round steak into strips about 1/2 inch by 2 inches long after tenderizing the whole steak first.
- Dredge lightly salted, peppered beef in flour and in a large skillet, brown beef strips over high heat in hot oil until meat is well browned on all sides.
- Remove meat from skillet.
- To skillet with meat drippings add the onion and saute onions for 5-10 minutes as needed to be become soft.
- Remove onion and set aside.Drain off excess oil from skillet, while retaining drippings left behind from frying meat and onions.
- Get a large cooking vessel ready: either dutch oven or kettle ready to make the rest of this recipe, as a skillet will not hold it all.
- In large vessel, place all the browned meat, the sauteed onions and all the drippings from the frying pan into the skillet.
- Heat dutch oven or kettle with meat, onions and drippings, heat until good and hot.
- Put in the entire contents of all the condensed soup cans, and the entire amount of sour cream.
- Reduce heat to simmer.
- Do not let this dish boil, or sour cream in the sauce will break down).
- Mix in dill weed and the 2 teaspoons of paprika.
- When sour cream and soup have melted, a little at a time, stir in enough milk to make the sauce the consistency of normal gravy.
- You needn't use all the milk called for in recipe if it isn't all necessary to thin the sauce.
- Stir all around gently.
- Cover and let gently heat and blend over low-simmer.
- You will want the sauce to steam but NOT boil.
- You now have your beef stroganoff.
- Adjust salt and keep on low simmer until ready to serve, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking.
- While stroganoff is simmering on very low heat (warm setting, basically) you can prepare and boil the egg noodles according to package directions.
- To serve, put stroganoff in a serving vessel and sprinkle the remaining paprika over the top for color (and additional flavor).
- Serve over hot cooked egg noodles.
stewing beef, onions, flour, cooking oil, milk, condensed cream, condensed cream, dill, sweet paprika, ground black pepper, egg noodles
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/beef-stroganoff-pretty-simple-very-delicious-161890 (may not work)