Beef Stroganoff
Soured cream off the heat or it splits.
30 min Serves 2 Stove, Frying pan, Saucepan
Per serving
747
kcal
48 g
protein
70.5 g
carbs
29.9 g
fat
6.4 g protein per 100 kcal · 2.8 g fibre. Calculated from the exact weights below using standard food composition data, so they are close estimates rather than lab values.
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Ingredients
For 2 servings.
Beef steak (sirloin)250 g
Mushrooms (white)200 g
Soured cream100 g
Onion100 g
White rice, dry weight150 g
Butter20 g
Mustard(optional)10 g
Method
- 1Sear the sliced beef fast in butter and set aside.
- 2Brown the mushrooms and onion properly in the same pan.
- 3Beef back in, pan off the heat, then stir the soured cream through. Rice alongside.
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The techniques and safety points this recipe uses, explained from scratch.
Cooked rice: cool it fast, eat it within a dayShow
Uncooked rice can carry spores (Bacillus cereus) that survive cooking. If cooked rice sits warm, they wake up and make a toxin that reheating does not destroy. The fix is easy: don't let it sit warm.
- Eat it straight away, or cool leftovers quickly — spread it out on a plate or tray so it cools within about an hour.
- Then put it in the fridge. Eat it within 24 hours.
- Reheat it only once, until it is steaming hot all the way through.
Cooking riceShow
Two easy ways: boil it like pasta (hardest to get wrong), or the absorption method (fluffier).
- Rinse it in a sieve under the cold tap until the water runs mostly clear.
- Like pasta: boil in lots of salted water, 10–12 minutes for white rice (brown takes 25–30), tasting until tender, then drain.
- Absorption: 1 mug of rice to 1½ mugs of water and a pinch of salt. Boil uncovered until the water drops below the rice and small holes appear, then lid on, lowest heat, 12–15 minutes. Don't lift the lid.
- Take it off the heat and leave it covered for 5–10 minutes, then fluff it up with a fork.
Ready when: Each grain is soft all the way through, with no chalky white centre.
Browning and searing meatShow
The brown crust is flavour. It forms only on a dry surface in a hot pan — wet meat or a crowded pan just steams.
- Pat the meat dry with kitchen paper. Season it.
- Get the oil hot (shimmering, maybe a wisp of smoke).
- Lay the pieces in, away from you so the fat doesn't spit towards you, with space between them.
- Then leave them alone for 2–4 minutes. Don't poke. When the underside is brown the meat lets go of the pan by itself — if it sticks, it isn't ready to turn.
- Turn and brown the other side. Browning adds flavour; it does not make meat safe on its own — it still has to be cooked through.
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A standard home version of a well-known dish, written for Solviro. Nutrition is estimated from ingredient weights and will vary with brands and portions.