Name: Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff I
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 8 min
Ingredients: 1 pound cubed beef stew meat; 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed golden mushroom soup; ½ cup chopped onion; 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce; ¼ cup water; 4 ounces cream cheese

This is an easy variation of a favorite. I used to prepare it the traditional way, with sour cream, but I didn't have any one night, so I used cream cheese instead. My husband and I liked it even better! Serve over hot, cooked egg noodles or rice.

Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff I

beef stew meat

(10.75 ounce) can condensed golden mushroom soup

onion

Worcestershire sauce

water

cream cheese

In a slow cooker, combine the meat, soup, onion, Worcestershire sauce and water.


Cook on Low setting for 8 hours, or on High setting for about 5 hours. Stir in cream cheese just before serving.


I read almost all of the 400+ reviews and made modifications based on them.  To save everyone else some time, here's what they say to do (and what I did...and it came out great):  (1) add salt, pepper, and garlic, (2) double the sauce but keep the cream cheese and worcestershire the same, (3) use Golden Mushroom, not Cream of Mushroom or don't make this at all, (4) reduce the cooking time to about 5-6 hours on low, (5) add a "dollup" of sour cream when you add the cream cheese to get an extra "tang", (6) add a bullion cube, (7) add a half packet of onion soup mix, (8) serve over egg noodles, (9) add sauteed mushrooms about 1/2 an hour before serving.  I know this isn't true to the original recipe, but I trusted others and I think it helped.  Great slow-cooker recipe.  I froze the leftovers (egg noodles and all) in my Seal-a-Meal and then just boiled the bag to reheat.  It was great the second time around!

I think i made it through about 900 reviews until i started to get a headache :) I cant stand having to go through dozens of pages of reviews to find the "5 star " version of the recipe! I am going to make this short and sweet.  The recipe that is posted originally is really only a 1 star meal.  After all the adjustments, substitutions, etc .. its 5 star fabulous.  I have taken all the suggestions and advice from all the reviews and created this:
 
INGREDIENTS
2 pound cubed beef stew meat or chuck roast 
2 (10.75 ounce) can condensed golden mushroom soup 
3/4 cup chopped onion 
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 
1/4 cup water (more if needed) 
1/4 cup low sodium beef stock (more if needed) 
1/3 cup sour cream 
2 ounces cream cheese (reduced fat works well) 
1/2 pack French onion soup mix 
Salt and pepper, to taste 
3 cloves garlic, minced 
8oz. mushrooms, sliced 
Pat of butter 

DIRECTIONS
1. In slow cooker, combine meat, mushroom soup, chopped onions, minced garlic, Worcestershire, dry soup mix, pepper, stock and water.
2. Cook on low setting for 5-6 hours.
3. During cooking time, sauté the mushrooms in butter about 4 mins. 
4. Put sautéed mushrooms in slow cooker last 30 minutes of cooking time
5. Check sauce if it needs salt or extra pepper.
6. Best served over buttered egg noodles.

I think this came out fantastic.  But again, its all about personal opinions and tastes.  Let me know how this works out for everyone!
 




 

This is a WONDERFUL recipe! Make sure you do these 5 things, however:
1. Use "Condensed Golden Mushroom" soup. The regular Cream of Mushroom doesn't have the larger pieces of mushrooms.
2. Substitute 1/4 cup beef broth for 1/4 water.
3. Use 4 oz. sour cream instead of cream cheese.
4. Add 1/2 t. pepper for a tiny little (but necessary) kick.
4. Just before adding the sour cream, mix 1 T. corn starch with 2 T. cold water, then add this mixture to stroganoff. This gives it the necessary extra thickness.
Then, enjoy this FABULOUSLY delicious and simple to make dish!

This recipe (and the reviewers of it) makes me very angry.  If you change a bunch of things (or even one or two critical things) about a recipe IT IS NO LONGER THIS RECIPE!!  I should not have to read through 50 reviews to know how to make this recipe at the rating it has received.  I made no changes at all.  It is awful.  It is super concentrated with absolutely no sauce.  The meat was all shredded up from cooking so long, and the flavor was FAR too salty.  Don't make this recipe.  If you've tried it with all the million alterations people have insisted you need to do in order for it to be good, then go ahead and submit that recipe to Allrecipes.com  I'll try it -- and maybe it will deserve the nearly 5 stars this recipe has.

Wow!  For my husband and I to agree that a dish is worthy of 5 stars is very rare. This was a great comfort food dinner, perfect after a very long day, so easy to make.  And I have never made homemade stroganoff before!  I made some changes, based on Jillybean14's review, who summed up the 500+ reviews on here (thank you!).  To do what Jillybean did, and save others some time, here is what all these reviews say to do: 1)Add some salt,pepper, and garlic to the pot. 2) Double the meat. 3) Double the soup and water but keep worchestshire and cream cheese the same. 4)Add 1/2 packet onion soup mix to mixture. 5)Cook on LOW only for 5 hours. 6) Add a dollop of sour cream also when adding cream cheese. 7) Add sauteed fresh mushrooms (about 4-6 oz) 1/2 hr before serving.  8) Serve over egg noodles.  I followed these suggestions, and now my husband, who is a big fan of Hamburger Helper, wants this instead and thinks I am the stroganoff goddess. =) A keeper for the recipe box! I will make this often.

I think I've found my new favorite comfort food. This was really good. I used 2 pounds of round steak (just don't like stew meat) 2 cans of golden mushroom soup added some onion soup mix (for flavor) and 1/2 cup water (I like gravy). To help the cream cheese melt easier cube and soften it before adding. I like the idea of using cream cheese rather than the traditional sour cream because if you're lucky enough to have leftvovers it reheats nicer than sour cream. I can't wait to make it again!

It really irks me when i come on here to get a good recipe with a good rating and people's reviews are all about the changes they made. I dont have time to read everyones reviews with all the changes to make this recipe "better'. Rate the recipes as is and if you have modifications or change then post a new recipe!!!!!!!

5 stars for a great easy recipe for the busy on-the-go parent! Doubled the sauce!!! Added 1/2 tsp of fresh minced garlic 1/2 packet of dry Italian-style salad dressing and 1/2 packet of Lipton's dry onion/ beefy/ mushroom soup mix to give the stroganoff extra flavor complexity. Subbed low sodium beef broth for the water and low sodium worcestershire for the regular. Added sauteed mushrooms 1/2 hour prior to the finish and stirred in sour cream to taste prior to serving! Helpful hint: Check the intensity of your crockpot as some are "hotter" than others and you may not need to cook the stroganoff the full 8 hours as the recipe lists. Thanks Jessica - great recipe!

This tastes really good but I found that because I floured and browned the meat (which naturally thickens the sauce) and added fresh mushrooms (which absorb a LOT of moisture) I increased the water to a full cup and still would have been happy with a thinner sauce. I liked the flavor enough to give this another try - this time no mushrooms and with a full soup can of water. I also think I'll use traditional sour cream instead - the cream cheese tasted very good but I think the texture of the sour cream will suit my tastes better. That's the beauty of this recipe - it's a great place to take off & tinker to your preferences!

See how to put an easy spin on classic beef stroganoff.

Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff I

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 8 hours

Total: 8 hours, 10 minutes

Servings: 4

Author : Jessica Jones

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