Keto Beef Stroganoff with Egg Noodles

This Keto Beef Stroganoff recipe is a hearty mixture of steak, egg noodles and mushrooms, enveloped in a dreamy sour cream sauce. It's a great low carb meal with only 6g net carbs.

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• Dasvidaniya!
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• Egg noodles?
• Other low carb sides:
• Best cuts of beef:
• Ground beef?
• Shrooms anyone?
• Carbs in Beef Stroganoff
• And you are done!
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Dasvidaniya!

Today I’m going to share a recipe for Keto Beef Stroganoff, the most comforting of comfort foods.  But first, I want to tip my hat at the originator of this recipe, Pavel Stroganov, the handsome devil you see below.

(Is it me, or does he look just like Steve “the Hair” Harrington from Stranger Things?)

His origin story:

The Stroganovs were one of the richest families in Tsarist Russia, in the early 1800’s, when this recipe was created.  It is thought to have come from a French chef working for the family.  So the chef named it after his boss, Pavel Stroganov, but used the French spelling “Stroganoff”, which is what we use to this day. Stroganov, Stroganoff, same difference.

The recipe has traveled far and wide in the last 200 years.  

You can find some version of Beef Stroganoff just about everywhere, and everybody makes it a little bit differently.  But for the low carb Beef Stroganoff recipe that we are going to make today, I decided to keep it to the most common American ingredients: beef sirloin, mushrooms, onions, garlic, sour cream and egg noodles.

Egg noodles?

Well, yes, but not the kind you might be thinking of.  These are homemade Keto noodles that are literally made from eggs, cream cheese and a high protein low carb flour.  I used Psyllium Husk Powder Noodles for this recipe, but you can also make the egg noodles with Lupin Flour, Vital Wheat Gluten, or no flour at all.

Other low carb sides:

You can serve it over cauliflower rice or mashed cauliflower.  Zoodles (zucchini noodles) are always a good noodle alternative. ThinSlim Foods actually makes a fantastic low carb fettuccine noodle called an ImPASTAble Noodle. (Although it is completely PASTAble, if you ask me.) And you can buy some great low carb noodles from the Great Low Carb Bread Company as well.

So you've got options, noodle-wise.

Best cuts of beef:

You want some juicy bites of steak, so I recommend these cuts:

• boneless sirloin
• sirloin steak tips
• boneless rib eye AKA scotch fillet
• beef tenderloin
• top round beef

Make sure to give the meat a quick sear to lock in the juices.

Ground beef?

Traditional Beef Stroganoff has bite sized pieces of steak of course, but if you want to use ground beef and cut down on the prep time, then I will look the other way. It is only a hop, skip and a jump away from Hamburger Helper though, to be honest.

But I won't judge you.  

Shrooms anyone?

For this Keto Beef Stroganoff, I used simple, easy to find in the produce aisle, white button mushrooms. Either wash, dry and slice the mushrooms or, and I highly recommend this second option, buy pre-packaged washed and sliced mushrooms. You can get fancy with the shrooms if you'd like, and use cremini, portobello or baby bella mushrooms to add more umami goodness to the dish.

But the steak is the star of the show, so I stand by my buttons.

Vegetable sides:

One classic side is green peas. They add a bright flavor and a nice pop of color to the dish. They are higher in carbohydrate than you might like, so you should use them sparingly. But a ¼ of a cup of peas has just 3.5 grams of net carbohydrate, so I say go for it.

You'll still have a low carb meal the clocks in at under 10g net carbs.

More vegetable sides:

• Broccoli
• Daikon radishes,
• Kale,
• Spinach
• Asparagus
• Brussel sprouts
• Cauliflower
• Butternut Squash
• Green beans
• Zucchini

You can't go wrong with any of them.

Carbs in Beef Stroganoff

In regular Beef Stroganoff with egg noodles, you are looking at a meal with 50-60g net carbs.  But luckily, this Keto version has just 6g.  Soooo much healthier.

How to make it:

First, you make your Psyllium Husk Noodles. Then sear the beef strips in olive oil. Remove them from the pan and cook the onions, mushrooms and garlic in butter. Move the vegetables aside and add beef broth to the pan and thicken it with Xanthan Gum. Temper the sour cream and then whisk it into the sauce and cook until thickened more. Add the beef back to the pan and simmer in the cream sauce for several minutes. Add noodles to the pan and cook until warmed through.

And you are done!

It only takes about 40 minutes to make this Keto Beef Stroganoff recipe. So you can make it for special occasions or on weeknights or just because you feel like eating a homey beef and noodles dinner. It is total comfort food. And since it is so low in carbohydrate, it won't wreck your Ketogenic Diet.

But enough about Pavel Stroganov's favorite dish.

Now I have an inexplicable urge to watch Stranger Things.

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If you liked this low carb beef entree, then you might like my recipes for Beef Shirataki Noodle Pho, Vegetable Beef Soup or Filet Mignon with Braised Cabbage.