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Beef stroganoff

Name: Beef stroganoff
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 lb top sirloin steak, sliced in thin strips; 3 tbsp butter; 10 oz white button mushrooms, sliced; 1 yellow onions, diced; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 2 1/2 tbsp all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 cups beef broth; 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce; 2 tsp Dijon mustard; 1/2 cup sour cream; 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp black pepper; 340 g dry egg noodles, cooked

Strips of sirloin and mushrooms in a sour-cream pan sauce over egg noodles — the 1950s dinner-party dish that never actually left, because it never stopped being good.

Time: 40 min (15 prep + 25 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 695 kcal
Protein: 44 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

1 lb top sirloin steak, sliced in thin strips500 g
3 tbsp butter40 g
10 oz white button mushrooms, sliced300 g
1 yellow onions, diced120 g
2 cloves garlic, minced8 g
2 1/2 tbsp all-purpose flour20 g
1 1/2 cups beef broth360 g
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce10 g
2 tsp Dijon mustard10 g
1/2 cup sour cream120 g
1 tsp salt5 g
1 tsp black pepper2 g
340 g dry egg noodles, cooked945 g

Every ingredient links to its food page — same data, same score, same formula.

Steps

Sear the beef strips hard in half the butter, 1 minute a side, and set aside — they finish later, and overcooked sirloin is the classic stroganoff failure.
In the same pan, brown the mushrooms in the rest of the butter until their water is gone, then soften the onion and garlic.
Stir in the flour, cook a minute, and whisk in the broth, worcestershire and dijon. Simmer to a gravy.
Off the heat, stir in the sour cream — boiled sour cream curdles — then the beef and its juices. Serve over the noodles.

Why does my sour cream split in the sauce?

Heat. Sour cream curdles at a simmer, so it goes in off the heat, at the end, every time. If you want extra insurance, stir a spoonful of the warm sauce into the sour cream before adding it to the pan.

Why this score

moderately filling

No single route carries this one — a moderate amount of protein, volume and fiber.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

25% of kcal

70% water

7 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

Nothing here converges the way engineered food does — no sugar, no savoury and no alcohol penalty.

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 2779 kcal goes into the pot, 2440 g of ingredients comes out as ~1915 g of food → 145 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 145
Protein: (25%); 9 g
Fat: (33%); 5 g
Carbohydrates: (42%); 15 g
of which sugar: 1 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 216 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.