This is a recipe from Joeys mum. It's quick & really delicious, and will serve 4 people.
Ingredients:
1) 2 large sirloin steaks, that have been well hung, trimmed of excess fat and cut into thin strips for quick frying (not cubes!).
2) 1 onion, diced.
3) 2 cloves of garlic, crushed.
4) 1 normal sized punnet of mushrooms, sliced.
5) Some flour & paprika.
6) Basmati rice for 4 people (check out Conor's recipe for cooking rice).
7) A good glug/splash of Brandy.
8 ) A small carton of Cream.
9) An optional squeeze of lemon.
Veronica's Method:
1) Put a large handful of flour into a bowl and add 1 tablespoon of paprika and season with salt & pepper.
2) Mix the sliced beef through the flour mix, so that the beef is well coated with flour.
3) Gently fry the onions till soft, then add the mushrooms and garlic over a high heat and continue to fry until onions are golden and caramelised. Then, remove from the pan and place in a dish and leave to one side (you can prep all of this and leave to one side till you're ready to serve).
4) In the same pan, fry off the beef on a medium heat. This shouldn't take very long depending on how you like your beef (the rarer the tastier!).
5) Add brandy to pan (with beef still in the pan) to deglaze it. Then add your cream to the pan and leave for 1 minute to thicken. Add back in the mushroom and onion mix.
6) Add a squeeze of lemon at the very end if you like (being honest I'm not huge into the lemon, but Joey loves it -she finds it cuts the cream).
7) Serve with basmati rice (check out Conor's recipe) and a bottle of delicious wine (tonight we're having a Portugese wine called Grouse and it's to die for).
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Comments
This is so delicious. I did forget to add in the mushrooms once (and I had sauteed them and everything!) It's simple and quick
We did this with again last night for 3 of us. It's soo good. We used Tequila instead of Brandy as we couldn't find any and we used 2 cartons of cream- but you only need one. I just love cream
Good but kinda Irishified with the cream. Think Russian or Eastern European...
I think it is more authentic to use sour cream and to include a diced dill pickle for the essential kick in the recipe. Also, serve on broad egg noodles rather than rice. Yummm... vodka is good too
Yeah, would agree with the sour cream - otherwise, while it might be tasty, it wouldn't really be straganoff! Also, had always thought it ESSENTIAL to use filet rather than any other cut of beef?
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