Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, finnish style beef stroganoff (lihakastike). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook finnish style beef stroganoff (lihakastike) using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Finnish Style Beef Stroganoff (Lihakastike):

1. Get to 1 kg Beef (a block, ground or stewing beef)
2. Prepare Onions
3. Get White flour
4. Make ready Butter
5. Make ready Salt and pepper
6. Make ready Bay leaves
7. Prepare Water
8. Prepare Heavy cream

Steps to make Finnish Style Beef Stroganoff (Lihakastike):

1. Take the beef out of the refrigerator and leave out for at least 1 hour to allow to come to room temperature. Cut into bite-sized pieces. Finely chop the onions.
2. Mel butter in a pan and sauté the onion and beef, adding salt and pepper.
3. Transfer the sautéed onions and beef to a pan, and add enough water to cover. Toss bay leaves and bring to a boil.
4. When it comes to a boil, skim off the scum and turn down the heat to medium-low. Simmer for 2 to 3 hours, checking occasionally, until the meat becomes fall-apart tender.
5. If you want to add a rich flavor, dry-roast flour in a pan until it's brown as shown in the photo above. If you're in a hurry, you can skip this step.
6. Add the browned flour to the pan little by little, mixing between additions. When the stew has thickened, stop adding flour. Simmer for another 15 minutes or so, while keeping an eye on it.
7. Add fresh cream to taste. We like to add about 100 ml of cream.
8. In Finland, this is eaten with mashed or boiled potatoes. It's served on Christmas day too.

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