Recipe video above. The slow cooked version of Beef Stroganoff! Fall apart beef smothered in a creamy Stroganoff sauce with buttery garlic mushrooms, it's made with economical stewing beef yet tastes like a million dollars! 3 cook methods provided: stove, slow cooker or pressure cooker/instant pot* Recipe update: pursuant to some readers having difficulties with flour lumps, the steps have been updated to make it easier!
Ingredients
- 1.75kg/ 3.5lb beef chuck or other stewing beef (, cut in 4cm / 1.5” cube (Note 1))
- 1.5 tspeach salt and pepper
- 2 tbspoil
- 20g/ 1 tbsp butter (, unsalted)
- 1large onion (, halved then sliced into 1 cm / 2/5" slices)
- 4garlic cloves (, minced)
- 7 tbspflour (, plain / all purpose)
- 4 tbspDijon Mustard
- 1litre / 1 quart beef stock/broth (, reduced salt)
- 1 1/2 cupssour cream (, full fat best)
- 3tbsp/ 45 g butter (, unsalted)
- 700 g/ 1.2 lb mushrooms (, sliced into 0.5cm thick slices)
- 3garlic cloves (, finely minced)
- 1/2 tspsalt and pepper
- Pasta, wide egg noodles, mashed potato
- Chives for garnish
Instructions
- 1
Season beef - Pat beef dry then sprinkle with all the salt and pepper.
- 2
Brown beef - Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large heavy based pot or skillet* over high heat. Add beef in a single layer (not squished) and brown aggressively all over - 4 minutes or so. Remove and repeat with rest of beef, adding more oil as needed.
- 3
Sauté aromatics - Let the pot cool down a bit then return to stove. Melt half the butter, then cook garlic and onion for 3 minutes until softened.
- 4
Add flour - Sprinkle the flour across the surface, then stir. Add the mustard, and stir - it will look gluey, that's ok, it will dissolve.
- 5
Add stock - While stirring, pour in about half the beef stock then mix so the flour mixture dissolves into the liquid. It will thicken quite quickly into a gravy-like consistency .Switch to a whisk if needed, to make it lump free. Then add remaining stock, stir well, scraping the bottom of the pot, and bring to simmer. Cook using chosen method below.
- 6
SLOW COOKING - choose method:
- 7
GARLIC BUTTER MUSHROOMS:
- 8
FINISHING STEW: