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Beef Stroganoff

14/08/12012

Its Tuesday night and me and my flat mate Danielle couldn't decide what to cook for dinner. I found a recipe for healthy shitaki mushroom stroganoff the other day, which got me thinking yum. I told Dani who was pretty keen to try make the original, and once she asked that I realised I had a packet of sauce from pre "health phase Gina". 

So we set of to New World to buy ingredients... Onions, mushrooms, beef...

This blog will have two recipes the healthy and the traditional both just as easy:

Mis en place

Danielle Cooking

Danis Traditional Ingredients:        

Button mushrooms: 5

Onion: 2

Celery: 4

Beef: Waguu schnitzel 200g

Sauce:

1 packet Maggis Beef stroganoff

Dash white wine

2 tsps sour cream

1/2 cup beef stock

Salt and Pepper

Pasta:

If desired

Me cooking

Comparing the sauces

Healthy tofu sauce beef stroganoff:

1 cup precooked wholegrain spirals

100g Waguu beef schnitzel

Vegetables:

2 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced

5 Portobello mushrooms, thinly sliced

1 clove garlic, minced

½ cup low sodium beef stock

1 tbsp unsalted tomato paste

Sauce:

1 pkt  soft tofu, puréed in blender or food processor

¼ low fat plain yoghurt

¼ of a leek

8 cherry tomatoes cut into quarters

½ cup frozen beans (defrosted)

½ cup baby spinach leaves

Seasoning:

1/2 tsp Cajun seasoning

Sea salt and fresh ground black pepper, to taste

1 tsp dried dill

White wine if you like

INSTRUCTIONS:

1.       Cook spirals according to package directions. Drain and set aside.

2.       Heat a large nonstick or cast-iron skillet or wok over high for 1 minute.

3.       Reduce heat to medium-low, mist with cooking spray and add onion. Sauté for about 8 minutes or until caramelized. Add Portobello mushrooms and garlic. Sauté until cooked, about 5 more minutes.

4.       Add beef cook until coloured. Add tomatoes, beans, and leek cook 5 minutes.

5.       Blend tofu, yoghurt and tomato paste until smooth. Stir in seasoning, salt and pepper. Add to wok with stock. Bring to boil and then reduce heat.

6.       Put in cooked spirals, and baby spinach cook for another 5minutes or until tender. Serve topped with dill.

To substitute Danis Traditional ingredients in:

Swap mushrooms at step 2.

Leave out extra vegetables, or swap with celery

Blend packet sauce, stock, wine instead at step 5.

Leave out spinach at step 6.

Both taste amazing, Healthy is a lighter colour then traditional.  

Enjoy with a nice wine.

I thought I would also chuck in a few photos of yesterdays Satay Apricot Chicken which I had for lunch (Just to prove I don't just cook for this blog):

bon appétit