Ground beef stroganoff is a budget friendly, one-pan dinner made with simple ingredients. Lean ground beef, onion, and mushrooms are simmered in a rich creamy homemade sauce. Serve over egg noodles with a simple side salad for an easy 30 minute meal.
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Holly’s Recipe Highlights
- What it tastes like: Beef and mushrooms add flavor while the sauce is creamy with a savory taste from the broth a little bit of tang from the sour cream.
- Fresh ingredients: Skip the condensed mushroom soup, the stroganoff sauce is made with broth and sour cream.
- Test kitchen notes: This ground beef stroganoff recipe has been made hundreds of times and is best made with lean ground beef. Condensed broth will add extra richness. If using low-sodium broth, add a beef bouillon cube.
- Kitchen tip: When browning ground beef, I like to let it brown for 3 to 4 minutes before breaking it up. This gets a nice brown crust on one side adding extra flavor.
Ingredient Notes for Ground Beef Stroganoff
- Ground Beef: Use lean beef as it has a bit of fat for flavor.
- Mushrooms: I prefer brown or cremini mushrooms for a deeper mushroom flavor, but any type of mushrooms will work in this recipe.
- Stroganoff Sauce: Do not use low-sodium beef broth, or the sauce will taste flat.
- Seasonings: Simple but delicious salt, pepper, onion, and garlic. Feel free to add other seasonings to taste.
Variations
- Stir in a teaspoon or so of Dijon mustard.
- Add a sprig or two of fresh thyme or 1/4 teaspoon of dried thyme leaves.
- To make the sauce extra creamy, add a can of condensed mushroom soup or up to 4 ounces of cream cheese.
Serving Suggestions
Any starchy, carby pasta, potato or rice is great with stroganoff.
Serve this with a side of egg noodles, mashed potatoes, or riced cauliflower.
Leftovers and Storage
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
- Freeze: Freeze the stroganoff without noodles.
- Reheat: If frozen, thaw leftovers in the fridge overnight. Heat in the microwave or on the stovetop on low heat until warm.
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Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1 small onion diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 12 ounces mushrooms sliced
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 cups beef broth see note, not low sodium
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 beef bouillon cube optional
- salt and black pepper to taste
- ¾ cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Instructions
- Brown the ground beef, onion, and garlic in a large skillet over medium-high heat, trying not to break the beef up too much, until no pink remains. Drain any fat.
- Add the mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes. Stir in flour and cook 1 minute more.
- Add broth, Worcestershire sauce, bouillon cube, salt, & pepper and bring to a boil. Reduce to a low boil and cook uncovered for 10 minutes until thickened.
- Meanwhile, cook the egg noodles according to package directions.
- Remove skillet from the heat and stir in sour cream and parsley. Serve over egg noodles.
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Notes
- *Do not use low sodium beef broth. You can use boxed broth or condensed broth.
- If using canned condensed broth, it has more flavor and the beef bouillon cube is not needed.
- Ground beef gives the best flavor. If you substitute another type of ground meat, such as ground turkey, add a beef bouillon cube for a richer flavor.
- Fresh mushrooms are best but canned will work too. Use any combination of white, cremini, or portobello.
- Do not simmer or boil the sour cream or it may curdle. Greek yogurt can be used in place.
- Stir in a teaspoon or so of Dijon mustard
- Add a sprig or two of fresh thyme (or 1/4 teaspoon of dried)
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Beef, Dinner, Main Course
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What kind of fresh mushrooms are used in this recipe?! Can’t wait to make this meal very soon!!
I use either white mushrooms or cremini depending on what I have on hand.
Awesome!! Thank you so much for your help and time!! I really enjoy reading recipe ideas when I get home!!
You’re so welcome, Enjoy!!
What kind of flour for the ground beef stroganoff? Corn flour or just plain flour?
This recipe uses all purpose flour.
I really liked this recipe!
For the lazy like me, I added the dry pasta in pan (covered) with an extra 1/2 cup beef broth and cooked it 2 minutes over pasta cook time.
Prior to that, I added 1 tsp Better than Bouillion starter (for beefier flavor others noted was missing), tsp smoked paprika, 2 tsp umami powder.
It was flavorful & EZ!
Wouid totally make this again!
Great idea! Thanks for sharing.
I am going to make this tonight, like your idea of smoked paprika, I am going to add this.
Thanks
Made this tonight with ground venison and it came out great thanks for the recipe.
How many egg noodles would this recipe use?
I also find this comes out a but too runny. Any suggestions?
You can add extra cornstarch to thicken the sauce.
I would use less water. I made it for supper tonight and doubled it..took some of the liquid out before adding the sour cream…it was delicious unfortunately no leftovers
Looks delicious. Would love to see more recipes
Hope this isn’t a repeat of someone else’s comment. Tip for adding sour cream: stir a few tablespoonsful of your hot mixture into the sour cream and THEN add back into hot mixture. Helps to keep the sour cream from separating. I do it this way all the time and never have a problem.
Great tip, thanks for sharing!
this recipie is wonderful and so quick. Added it to the bestest dishes yet. Thanks
Looks great !
I use this on baked mashed potatoes instead of noodles. Just boil your potatoes mash with butter and spread them in a baking pan bake at 350 till top is golden brown. when your waiting on the potatoes make this toping and just poor it on the potatoes when done let cool for 15 min. and enjoy.
sounds great
This was good, but very dry. I think I’ll add mushroom soup mix and milk next time. Other than that it was good. :)
It’s what’s for dinner at my house! It smells amazing!
Love this recipe.
We added some jalapeño slices to give it just a little kick!
Good idea!
Looks fantastic, will have to give it a go.
My easy beef stroganoff 2 cans mushrooms soup, 2cans milk, mushrooms, onion , flour butter, hamburger, egg noddles, salt, pepper,garlic, powder, pour o we noodles yummy
It is always yummy & easy for anyone to use canned cream soups if no cares about the “extremely” high Sodium, fat and calorie. Some people look for more healthy ways of cooking if they have restricted health issues or wish to avoid future health issues. I have to look for lower sodium Recipes and am glad to find them far & few in between but know yours would be yummy also.
This is why I love this recipe, trying to watch my sodium. Thank you for sharing, cooking as I’m typing!
I have to adjust recipes for gluten and dairy, so typically “processed” foods are not ones that I can use.
Have made this tonight for my hungry “crew”, it smells amazing, can’t wait to tuck in! Having rice instead of noodles though! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I hope your hungry crew enjoyed the recipe! I think rice sounds like a yummy alternative, I will have to try it that way myself!
I am making the (ground)beef stroganoff Weill comment on how it turnes out
Can we have more recipes but with out cheese
Thank you
Hi Cathy, You can always leave the cheese out if it doesn’t please your palate. Thanks for dropping by! I will keep the recipes coming!
No Cheese! Should be against the law to leave Cheese out of almost all recipes!
Your post excite me too cook beef. I really like it. Thank you for this recipe, hope I’ll be able to cook something like this sooner. I can’t wait until the weekend. Looking forward for more great stuff here. More power!
Going to try this tonite will let you know how it comes out!! Plus do you have any new ideas for chicken drumsticks? Would appreciate some different and very picky kid friendly. Lol Thank you
Love your recipes!!! Send more!!!