Finnish Style Beef Stroganoff (Lihakastike)
Finnish Style Beef Stroganoff (Lihakastike)

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Great recipe for Finnish Style Beef Stroganoff (Lihakastike). This is a Finnish home cooked recipe called Lihakastike. It's like beef stroganoff or beef stew.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have finnish style beef stroganoff (lihakastike) using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Finnish Style Beef Stroganoff (Lihakastike):
  1. Prepare to 1 kg Beef (a block, ground or stewing beef)
  2. Make ready Onions
  3. Get White flour
  4. Take Butter
  5. Prepare Salt and pepper
  6. Prepare Bay leaves
  7. Get Water
  8. Make ready Heavy cream

Great recipe for Finnish Style Beef Stroganoff (Lihakastike). This is a Finnish home cooked recipe called Lihakastike. It's like beef stroganoff or beef stew. My mother-in-law taught me this recipe, and it's a family favorite now.

Instructions to make Finnish Style Beef Stroganoff (Lihakastike):
  1. Take the beef out of the refrigerator and leave out for at least 1 hour to allow to come to room temperature. Cut into bite-sized pieces. Finely chop the onions.
  2. Mel butter in a pan and sauté the onion and beef, adding salt and pepper.
  3. Transfer the sautéed onions and beef to a pan, and add enough water to cover. Toss bay leaves and bring to a boil.
  4. When it comes to a boil, skim off the scum and turn down the heat to medium-low. Simmer for 2 to 3 hours, checking occasionally, until the meat becomes fall-apart tender.
  5. If you want to add a rich flavor, dry-roast flour in a pan until it's brown as shown in the photo above. If you're in a hurry, you can skip this step.
  6. Add the browned flour to the pan little by little, mixing between additions. When the stew has thickened, stop adding flour. Simmer for another 15 minutes or so, while keeping an eye on it.
  7. Add fresh cream to taste. We like to add about 100 ml of cream.
  8. In Finland, this is eaten with mashed or boiled potatoes. It's served on Christmas day too.

If you have a pressure cooker, you can reduce the cooking time.. Prepare of Water or beef broth. Finnish Beef Stroganoff step by step. Slice the meat thinly against the grain. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and flour, coating the meat evenly.

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