Mushroom Stroganoff

[serenecooking]

Lately, while I've been doing the Mom Food (oops, I should post the split-pea soup!), I've been thinking about all the stuff I cooked when I was a young, newly vegetarian hippychick. I made lots of grain/nut/bean loaves, lots of homemade veggie burgers, LOTS of grain salads, etc. I also ate a lot of ramen, because young, newly vegetarian hippychicks tend to be kinda broke.

Anyway, perhaps the first thing I ever cooked from a vegetarian cookbook was mushroom stroganoff, and I managed to recreate it tonight. In the day, I made it with dairy sour cream, but these days, I like the tofu sour cream from Susan V. enough to use that.



Mushroom Stroganoff

1 onion, quartered and sliced thinly
3 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 tsp. no-salt seasoning (I use the organic one from Costco, but Mrs. Dash works, or toss in your favorite seasonings for stroganoff, whatever. :-)
1 cup water
2-3 lbs. mushrooms, sliced
1 tsp. salt, optional
1/2 cup tofu sour cream (or dairy sour cream)

In a large skillet (I use a ten-inch cast-iron one), sautee the onion in a few tablespoons of water over medium heat for several minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onions begin to brown. Add the garlic and seasoning, and sautee a minute or two more. Then add the water and stir, getting the browned bits up off the bottom of the pan.

Add mushrooms and salt. Depending on the size of your pan, you may have to add some of the mushrooms and then add more as they shrink down (I do). Cook the mushrooms, stirring occasionally, for 60-90 minutes on medium heat, until most of the liquid is gone and the broth is brown and fragrant. Turn the heat off and stir in sour cream just to heat.

I served this over buttered noodles. It would also be excellent with a puff-pastry crust, I think.

Comments

[j00j.livejournal.com]

I often do something similar, but with seitan added for protein. Okay, also paprika in the seasoning, so it's more a goulash than a stroganoff, but yeah.

Y'know, I've always wanted to try the grain/nut/bean loaf sort of thing-- do you have a good recipe?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

There's a lovely paprikash at the link for the tofu sour cream above. My family loved that, and it sounds like you're doing a paprikash.

And no, I don't really have a loaf recipe. I just fiddled with stuff, usually, and it was never the same twice.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

In my mid-teens I had this thing of chopping walnuts, potato, onion, carrot up together to make a veggie-burger patty -- I should try that again sometime.

[marci-ny.livejournal.com]

Sounds SOO good!! (actually everything you mentioned!!)