stroganoff

Ground Beef Stroganoff Recipe:

1 lb. ground beef, browned

1/2 cup onion, chopped

2 garlic cloves, minced

1/4 cup mushrooms, sliced

1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce

10 oz. can cream of mushroom soup

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 tsp. parsley

dash pepper

Assembly instructions:

Add the ground beef to a large resealable bag.

Add all the other ingredients to the bag and squish them around to combine.

Remove excess air and seal. Lay flat and freeze.

Skillet cooking instructions:

On the day of cooking, thaw.

Heat the beef stroganoff in a skillet on medium until heated through.

Before serving, stir in another 1/4 cup of sour cream. This adds a bit of zip and freshness and livens the recipe up.

Serve over cooked egg noodles or stir the cooked egg noodles into the skillet when the stroganoff has finished heating.

Crock-Pot® cooking instructions:

Thaw.

Empty the contents of the bag into the slow cooker and cook on low for 2-5 hours.

Before serving, stir in 1/4 cup of sour cream.

Serve over cooked egg noodles.

This Ground Beef Stroganoff recipe is included in our Family Favourites Freezer Meal Plan along with other recipes, printable shopping lists, prep lists, and printable labels.

Ground Beef Stroganoff Freezer Meal

As with most freezer meals, it's just as quick and easy once you've browned the beef and chopped the onions for this to make four of these recipes at once than it is to make one. When you open your freezer and see four meals made, you will feel so accomplished and glad that you quadrupled this recipe!

Course: Main Course

Keyword: beef, stroganoff

Servings: 6

Calories: 255 kcal

Ingredients

1 lb. ground beef browned
1/2 cup onion chopped
2 garlic cloves minced
3/4 cup mushrooms sliced
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
10 oz. can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 tsp. parsley
dash pepper

Instructions

To assemble this meal, add the ground beef to a large resealable bag.
Add all the other ingredients to the bag and squish them around to combine.
Remove excess air and seal.
Lay flat and freeze.
On the day of cooking, thaw and then cook in the slow cooker on low for 2-5 hours. If you prefer, you can instead heat the beef stroganoff in a skillet on medium until heated through.
Before serving, stir in another 1/4-1/2 cup of sour cream. This adds a bit of zip and freshness and livens the recipe up.

Recipe Notes

I want to mention something about the mushrooms in this recipe. You can substitute a can of mushrooms for the fresh mushrooms, particularly if you're making this as a freezer meal, but please don't. Fresh mushrooms taste so much better in this recipe than canned does. Trust me on this!

Whenever I make this, I cook up a package of egg noodles and stir the stroganoff through the drained noodles. If I'm heating this in a skillet on the stovetop, I add the noodles into the skillet towards the end of cooking the mixture.

If I'm making this in the Crock-Pot, I stir the cooked egg noodles right into the Crock-Pot towards the end of the Beef Stroganoff cooking time.

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One of the first meals I ever made for my husband after we got married was beef stroganoff. What I didn’t realize at the time was that he was not really a fan of mushrooms. Given that he had grown up on his family’s mushroom farm, I assumed he ate them often! He let me know that evening that he actually didn’t like mushrooms, but he was a good sport and gave my cooking a try. He liked it so much that he’s been eating mushrooms ever since!

Since that early attempt, I’ve tried many beef stroganoff recipes and our family has a few favorites. No matter which type I decide to make, we all agree that it needs to be served with extra sour cream and served on egg noodles.

If you’re like my husband used to be and mushrooms aren’t really your thing, you can try omitting them, but I think you ought to give them a try and see if this classic comfort food can make you a mushroom believer too!

Beef Stroganoff Recipes:

Our Ground Beef Stroganoff recipe is one that I created with a few tweaks to my mother-in-law’s recipe. I make it as a freezer meal. It’s just total comfort food for me, so I always make several of them at a time. They are fast to heat up and get dinner on the table.

There are so many variations possible when it comes to this universal comfort food recipe such as this Easy One Pot Meatball Stroganoff. It’s ready in just 20 minutes.

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Cooking this in the Crock-Pot gets the beef super tender so that it melts in your mouth. That’s the secret to this Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff.

Making Beef Stroganoff in the Instant Pot speeds up the process, especially if you are using stew meat.

This Ground Beef Stroganoff makes a hearty, comforting dinner the whole family will love.

You don’t have to veer from your diet with this Low carb, Gluten-free Crockpot Beef Stroganoff.

There are many ways to cook this dish. Sous Vide Beef Stroganoff will give you fall apart in your mouth beef while maintaining a medium-rare center to the steak bites. The sauce is creamy, silky, and has full layers of flavor.

If you like the flavors of stroganoff but are looking for something a little bit different, give this Easy Beef Stroganoff Soup a try. Yes, you read that right…soup!

This one doesn’t exactly fit the list because it’s missing the whole “beef” thing, but if you’re looking for the flavors with a different protein, check out this Pressure Cooker Ground Turkey Stroganoff.

With Easy Keto Beef Stroganoff you get filling beef and mushrooms in a low carb creamy sauce piled atop a bed of cauliflower rice.

For something different and also low carb, you can try Beef Stroganoff Burgers.

This keto version of the classic dish is actually a Beef Stroganoff Casserole. It’s topped with cheesy mashed cauliflower.

Where did Beef Stroganoff originate?

Beef Stroganoff originated in Russia where it was spelled Beef Stroganov. It has since become a worldwide classic.

What is Beef Stroganoff?

It is a dish made with beef and mushrooms in a creamy sauce. Now while it originally used “beef”, beef stroganoff recipes now incorporate different cuts of beef from steak to stew meat to hamburger. It can also be made with ground round for vegetarians. You also incorporate sour cream either in the meal itself or served alongside.

Beef Stroganoff is traditionally served over egg noodles and this is one thing you won’t want to stray from. They make the perfect pairing. If you don’t like the texture of egg noodles, you could choose another pasta, but it just won’t be the same. A little chopped parsley on the top finishes things beautifully!

Can Beef Stroganoff be frozen?

Yes! In fact, I always make ours as a freezer meal. It freezes beautifully. Plus, when I make it ahead, it means that I always have one in the freezer ready to be pulled out on a day when comfort food is of the essence.

Which wine goes best with Beef Stroganoff?

I am far from a sommelier, but for this question, I turned to the experts in this area. According to them, a red wine is what you want to pair with beef stroganoff. In particular, a rich, fruity wine such as a Shiraz. You can also go with a heavily oaked Merlot. If neither of those meet your fancy, a fruity Pinot Noir will stand up to the mushrooms and hold its own.