Beef Stroganoff is a Russian dish. Having seen this dish from a popular blogger and I found it super easy to prepare. As I am busy this week and just need to eat up everything in the freezer before my vacation.  The ingredients needed for this recipe are extremely easy and tend to be available always in a kitchen: some beef (tenderloin or minced for a more simple version), mushroom, butter and some herbs.

Beef Stroganoff for two

300g minced beef

200g mushroom (sliced)

a dry onion (finely chopped)

2 cloves of garlic

salt, pepper to taste

1/2 tsp Wocestershire sauce

1/2tsp dry tarragon

a pinch of nutmeg powder

1/2 cup sour cream/ fromage blanc/ plain greek yogurt

25g+ 25g butter

1 tbsp dry white wine good quality (optional)

Method: Using only 1 pot for the whole process!!!!!!! I love how easy this dish is!

Sautee 25g butter with beef over high heat, quickly stir the beef and sprinkle some salt, wocestershire sauce and pepper in, remove the beef to a plate, keep the broth in the pan.

Lower the heat to small, add in the chopped onion cook until it is soft and tender, which might take around 2 minutes.

Remove the cooked onion  from the pan.  Put the rest of the butter in the pan, let it melt and add in garlic, sautee until its scent is in the air or the side of the garlic turn light brown, add in the sliced mushrooms, stir a few times so that they are covered with the browned butter and garlic. Sprinkle some salt, tarragon and nutmeg, stir and reduce the heat to low, add sourcream/fromage blanc/yogurt. I technically prefer using fromage blanc as I was tempted by the number of 0% fat on its carton.  Don’t let it boil otherwise it will form curdles. Pour back the beef and onion to the pan. Stir and add more seasoning to your taste or add the white wine to have a kick. For me, the dish is simple and has a humble taste with the great intoxicating smell of browned Butter and tarragon, so delicious.

Serve with cooked white rice as in my case.