The Best Ever Beef Stroganoff!!

This recipe was borrowed by the Bower family and adapted by myself. My  Mother in Law made the best Beef Stroganoff I have ever tasted, she had taught me how to make it many years ago so I still had a few tips and ingredients that I remembered her using. Sadly she is deceased now so her wonderful culinary delights died with her.

So I took this yummy recipe and added a few of my boys Nan's ingredients....what turned out to be so heavenly I had to write it down so I will always remember it in the future.

My Recipe

Step 1: Cut beef into thin strips placing in a plastic veggie bag along with a cup of flour
I did this as it seals the beef strips locking in the full flavour of the meat and acts as a tenderizer and thickener for the sauce. I then add a little butter and cook off meat at high temperature until golden brown.
Remove meat from pan from pan and set aside

Step 2: Next add a cup of white wine and let begin to reduce. Then add onions, garlic and mushrooms into wine and cook until the wine has evaporated making sure you do not burn, again remove from pan and set aside.

Step 3: Add 2 tablespoon of butter and allow to melt, when butter is melted take off heat and add 2 tablespoons of flour and whisk into butter making a roux.

Step 4: Something I didn't know from this step if you add milk and cheese instead of stock you make Alfredo! Add about 2-3 cups of stock to your roux stirring until you have a gravy type thickness.

Step 5: Stir in a cup of cream cheese and about 2/3 cup of sour cream. I had to barmix my gravy to make the texture smooth. Then add in 1 teaspoons of  mustard(the recipe called for 2 but I didn't like the thought of using that much mustard), 2 tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce and my main diversion from the recipe is that I added 2 table spoons of tomato paste as this what in my mind gives stroganoff it's rich full flavour.

If you try this and find you enjoy it please let me know and if you think there is something I could do different or add to it, I'd love to hear it.