30-Minute Ground Beef Stroganoff — 😍😋🎉 This quick recipe tastes just like traditional beef stroganoff but with ground beef instead of steak tips! Using ground beef keeps this meal budget-friendly and reduces the prep work significantly. Serve the RICH and CREAMY stroganoff over egg noodles or mashed potatoes for an EASY dinner the whole family will love!
Table of Contents
- Easy Beef Stroganoff … with Ground Beef!
- Love Beef Stroganoff? Try This Slow Cooker Version Next!
- Ground Beef Stroganoff Ingredients
- How to Homemade Beef Stroganoff with Ground Beef
- How to Prevent Sour Cream From Curdling
- What to Serve with Easy Ground Beef Stroganoff
- Storage Instructions
- 30-Minute Beef StroganoffRecipe FAQs
- 30-Minute Ground Beef Stroganoff Recipe
- More Easy Ground Beef Dinner Recipes:
Easy Beef Stroganoff … with Ground Beef!
Beef stroganoff is a comfort food recipe for many – especially my family – and it’s easy to see why!
The classic recipe features tender pieces of beef simmered in a rich and creamy mushroom gravy that’s seasoned with layers of flavor thanks to the addition of garlic, onion, beef bouillon, Dijon, and Worcestershire sauce.
The recipe I’m sharing with you today packs in the same comforting flavors, but the traditional steak tips are replaced with ground beef.
Using ground beef in stroganoff keeps the recipe budget-friendly, reduces the prep time, and makes the dish even easier to whip up on a busy weeknight.
This is a completely homemade ground beef stroganoff recipe made with ground beef, fresh mushrooms, and sour cream. No canned or condensed soups in sight! Best of all, it’s ready in 30 minutes!
I served this creamy ground stroganoff over wide egg noodles, but you can also spoon it over mashed potatoes, mashed cauliflower, or rice. And don’t forget a hunk of crusty French bread. No matter what, your family is going to adore this fast ground beef dinner recipe!
Love Beef Stroganoff? Try This Slow Cooker Version Next!
For a set-it-and-forget-it beef stroganoff, try this Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff recipe.
It’s just as easy as this stove top version, but your slow cooker does all the hard work for you!
Ground Beef Stroganoff Ingredients
This is a from-scratch easy ground beef stroganoff recipe (aka hamburger stroganoff), meaning the mushroom gravy is completely homemade.
I don’t mind using canned cream of mushroom soup as a shortcut now and then, but seeing as how this entire meal takes just 30 minutes from start to finish I didn’t feel the need to use any shortcuts!
Gather the following ingredients:
- Wide egg noodles
- Unsalted butter
- Mushrooms (white or baby bella)
- Ground beef
- Yellow onion
- Garlic
- Salt and pepper
- All-purpose flour
- Low-sodium beef broth – I suggest cooking with low sodium beef broth. Sometimes regular beef broth can be far too salty, especially once the stroganoff sauce has reduced in volume and turns into a creamy gravy. Remember that you can always add extra salt to the stroganoff sauce, but you can’t take it back out
- Tomato paste
- Worcestershire sauce
- Dijon mustard
- Beef bouillon – I like the Better Than Bouillon brand in beef flavor, but you’re welcome to use your favorite brand of bouillon. I strongly urge you to use bouillon of some sort for the depth of flavor it lends
- Sour cream – Make sure you use full-fat sour cream to both add creamy flavor and a rich mouthfeel and also the fat in full-fat dairy is insurance against a sauce separating which is just about the ugliest sight
- Parsley; optional, for garnishing
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Homemade Beef Stroganoff with Ground Beef
This ground beef stroganoff recipe comes together very quickly. So, I recommend slicing the mushrooms, chopping the garlic and onions, and measuring out the remaining ingredients before you start cooking. That way, you can work quickly at the stove and get dinner on the table ASAP.
The recipe is very simple, just follow these steps:
- Cook the wide egg noodles according to package directions. Drain the water, rinse the pasta, and set it aside.
- Sauté the mushrooms in butter over medium-high heat, tossing so they cook and brown evenly on all sides. Then, transfer them to a plate. Add the ground beef, onion, garlic, salt, and pepper to the same skillet, and cook until the beef browns and the onions are soft and translucent.
- Sprinkle the flour over the beef, stir to combine, and cook long enough to eliminate the raw flour taste. Then, add the tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, Dijon, and beef bouillon, and stir. Then, add the mushrooms and beef broth.
- simmer the mixture uncovered over medium-low heat until the creamy sauce thickens into a gravy-like consistency. Turn off the heat, and add the tempered sour cream, stirring to combine.
- Adjust the seasonings to taste, garnish with parsley, and serve over the cooked egg noodles, mashed potatoes, or rice.
How to Prevent Sour Cream From Curdling
To prevent the sour cream from curdling (i.e. splitting, breaking) in the ground beef stroganoff sauce, you’ll want to temper it before adding it to the pan.
Tempering just means measuring the sour cream into a heat-proof bowl, then stirring in small amounts of the piping hot mushroom gravy until the sour cream is the same temperature as the sauce.
Once you’ve tempered the sour cream, stir it into the stroganoff OFF THE HEAT as added insurance against curdling.
What to Serve with Easy Ground Beef Stroganoff
Storage Instructions
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. Or, freeze for up to 4 months.
If you also have leftover egg noodles, store them in a separate container from the stroganoff mixture. If you mix them into the gravy, they’ll soak up all the sauce and become mushy.
30-Minute Beef StroganoffRecipe FAQs
I recommend using lean or extra lean ground beef to make this recipe (90% lean or higher, I usually use about 93% lean).
If you use a fattier ground beef, you’ll probably need to drain off some grease. Plus, you’ll want to make sure to wipe any excess grease from the pan after browning the beef. The mushroom gravy is already very rich and creamy, so lean ground beef is a must!
I recommend using baby bello (portobello) mushrooms in this recipe or cremini mushrooms. White button mushrooms would also work but they’re not my preferred mushroom because this type of mushroom doesn’t have as much flavor.
However, you don’t want too strong of mushroom flavor as you will find more mature mushroom varieties, like portobello mushrooms so they won’t compete with the other flavors in the dish. 
There’s a mushroom hater in every family and group! As I always say when it comes to mushrooms (I just mentioned this in my recipe for Slow Cooker Chicken Marsala) you’re free to omit them but just know that your finished easy stroganoff meal won’t have the same depth of flavo or richness, and it won’t be as authentic-tasting.
Wide egg noodles are the traditional choice for serving beef stroganoff. However, you can use another type of noodle or pasta, or serve the stroganoff over mashed potatoes or even rice. You want something that will soak up that flavorful mushroom gravy!
For an even creamier stroganoff sauce, you can add up to ½ cup of room-temperature heavy cream to the pan at the same time you add the broth.
Just be careful to not over-simmer the sauce, because that can cause the heavy cream to break (i.e. separate). Make sure not to let it boil, just a tiny simmer, or you could end up with a broken sauce.
Potentially you could, but I have only ever made the recipe with sour cream. If you try it, make sure to use full-fat Greek yogurt. Fat is your friend here and prevents sauces from separating as well as provides a rich mouthfeel and great flavor!
This ground beef stroganoff recipe was written for using, well, ground beef. Although I’m sure you can use ground turkey. The sauce just will not be as flavorful. Ground turkey is a very lean protein and lacks the rich flavor that ground beef has.
If using ground turkey, you’ll likely need to add a little extra butter(plus a little olive oil) to the skillet to prevent the turkey from drying out.
You might also want to use 2 teaspoons of beef bouillon (rather than 1.5 teaspoons) to add extra beefy flavor to the gravy.
In that same vein, ground pork or ground sausage could also be used. In all actuality, ground sausage would likely be my next-in-line if I wasn’t using ground beef.
Yes, you can. This recipe reheats quite well in either the microwave or on the stove. Just take it easy when you reheat, and don’t use too high of heat.
However, I don’t recommend preparing the egg noodles in advance, because they can dry out in the fridge and don’t reheat as well.
Bottom line, if you’re trying to get ahead, premake the beef portion, and boil the noodles right before you plan to serve this easy dish.
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30-Minute Ground Beef Stroganoff
Equipment
- 1 Pot
- 1 Colander
- 1 High-Sided Skillet
Ingredients
- 12 ounces wide egg noodles
- 8 ounces sliced baby portobello or cremini mushrooms, white button mushrooms may be substituted
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 pound lean or extra-lean ground beef, I use 90 or 93% lean
- ½ cup yellow or white onion, finely diced
- 3 or 4 cloves garlic, finely minced
- 1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste, not tomato sauce
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard, not yellow mustard
- 1 ½ teaspoons beef bouillon
- 2 cups reduced sodium beef broth
- ½ cup full-fat sour cream, at room temperature
- Fresh parsley, finely minced, optional for garnishing
Instructions
- Cook the wide egg noodles according to package directions. Drain, rinse, and set aside. Meanwhile, move on with the rest of the recipe.
- To a large, high-sided skillet, add the mushrooms, butter, and saute over medium-high heat for about 5 minute, making sure to flip and toss the mushrooms as they're sauteing so that all sides are evenly browned. Remove the cooked mushrooms from the skillet and set aside on a plate.
- Add the beef, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, and cook for about 7 minutes, or until the beef has browned and is done, and the onions are soft and translucent. Crumble the beef as it cooks and stir very frequently to ensure even cooking.
- Evenly sprinkle the flour over the beef, stir to combine, and cook for about 90 seconds, long enough to ensure any raw flour has been cooked so there's no raw flour later. Tip – Flour is added here to help the subsequent sauce thicken up a bit since we're making this from scratch, not canned or condensed soups.
- Add the tomato paste, Worcestershire, Dijon, beef bouillon, and stir to combine.
- Add the mushrooms back in, and add the beef broth.
- Simmer uncovered over medium-low heat until the sauce begins to thicken up a bit and so it has a gravy type of consistency.
- Turn the heat off and add the tempered sour cream* (see Notes) into the beef mixture and stir to combine.
- Taste the mixture and make any necessary seasoning adjustments, i.e. more salt, pepper, beef bouillon, etc. before optionally garnishing with parsley and serving over the boiled egg noodles, mashed potatoes, or rice.
- Leftovers will keep airtight in the fridge for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 4 months. Tip – I highly recommend you store the beef stroganoff and the cooked noodles separately or they will have a tendency to absorb all the sauce, making them seem mushy and gummy, and the beef stroganoff to seem dry and not very saucy.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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We really enjoyed this, both for the flavor and the ease in making it. Only thing I’m going to change is to double the mushrooms because, well, we’re big mushroom fans. This is really good!