Beef Stroganoff Risotto

Pellerin's Note:

Ultra comfort-food for my daughter, when she comes home from college! Be sure to use arborio rice, and keep stirring. Although risotto is usually a side dish, this is DEFINATELY a main-course in my book!

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

• 1 lb good ground beef (not too lean)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1 yellow onion , diced
• 1 ½ lbs mushrooms , fresh sliced into big chunks
• ¼ cup very dry sherry
• 3 dashes hot sauce (I use Pick-a-Peppa or Tabasco)
• 3 -4 dashes Worcestershire sauce
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 ½ cups arborio rice
• 4 cups beef broth (homemade, or enrich standard beef broth with Knorr beef concentrate)
• ¾ cup parmesan cheese , grated
• ½ cup sour cream
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon chives , chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat large Dutch oven sized pot. Season ground beef with salt & pepper. Brown, but don't over cook. Drain if necessary (leave some for cooking onions & mushrooms) and remove to plate.
2. In same pan, add a little olive oil if necessary. Sauté mushrooms until caramelized. Set aside in a bowl. Into same pan, add diced onion until almost caramelized. Add sherry, hot sauce, Worcestershire, mushroom powder, and garlic powder. Cook 2-3 more minutes.
3. Add rice and stir well. Add broth ¾ cup at a time. Cook down - stirring often until almost absorbed, but loose. Total should be about 20 minutes.
4. Add mushrooms, butter, Parmesan, and sour cream. Stir well. Cook 2-3 minutes. Serve immediately, topped with chopped fresh chives.
5. Should be creamy and RICH!

Reviews

[Nascar#88Fan]

This was very good and I will make it again. It was quick and easy to make... I didn't have any sherry so I used red wine, but good just the same. Thank You for posting this :)

[Bobbin]

I love risotto in general and I love this variation of it, too. I did not use the mushrooms or hot sauce and it was still delicious. It was creamy and full of flavor. I wasn't sure what to do with the ground beef as the recipe never mentioned it after cooking it. So, I added about 1/2 pound back in at the same time I added the butter, sour cream, and parmesan. To me 1 pound would have been WAY too much. 1/2 pound was perfect. Thanks for the recipe.

[darker1965]

great tasty recipe thats easy to cook. I also used red wine as that what I had available. My kids even liked and ate the mushromms with out too much fuss.