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Meatball Stroganoff is a hearty, easy to make dinner that everyone in the family will love. Learn how to make the perfect meatballs and sauce for this tasty dish.
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This Easy Meatball Stroganoff recipe is one of our favorite weeknight meals. This is the perfect dish to make when you need a little bit of comfort food but don’t have a lot of extra time to cook. With tender meatballs packed with flavor and a creamy mushroom sauce over egg noodles, what’s not to love? The rich sour cream sauce uses whole, fresh ingredients (no cream of mushroom soup here!). Round it out with a side dish and a dessert, and you have an easy meal. If you are a stroganoff lover, then check out our Easy Beef Stroganoff and Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff.
Ingredients You’ll Need
- Homemade Meatballs – The meatballs can be made fresh or even made ahead and frozen. See our recipe for how to freeze meatballs.
- Egg Noodles – The sauce can also be served over rice, potatoes, or any type of pasta.
- Vegetables – Mushrooms and onions.
- Sauce – Butter, flour, milk, beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, Dijon mustard, thyme.
How to Make Meatball Stroganoff
- Combine all meatball ingredients in a bowl.
- Form into balls. Pan fry meatballs in a large skillet or bake at 400°F for 15-20 minutes.
- Sauté the onions and mushrooms in butter over medium-high heat.
- Sprinkle flour over vegetables to make a roux. Whisk in milk and beef broth to reach a gravy consistency.
- Reduce heat to simmer and add mustard, Worcestershire sauce, thyme, salt, and pepper. Add meatballs.
- Add sour cream and heat until hot (but not boiling).
- Remove from heat and serve over cooked egg noodles.
Make it Even Easier
Let me let you in on a little secret. Sometimes I make my own meatballs from scratch, as directed in the meatball stroganoff recipe card below. But sometimes I use pre-cooked meatballs or frozen meatballs, which makes this recipe even EASIER. Honestly, both ways are delicious. If you are using pre-cooked meatballs, just heat them according to package instructions before adding them to the creamy sauce at the end. Also, you will want to add about 4 Tbsp of butter to the pan instead of using the grease from the meatballs before adding mushrooms.
What to Serve with Easy Meatball Stroganoff
Normally, we serve this Easy Meatball Stroganoff over egg noodles. However, it also tastes great over rice, mashed potatoes, or regular pasta. Then, add a veggie side dish like broccoli, Brussels sprouts or a green salad and you have yourself a nutritious meal.
Frequently Asked Questions
They are very similar, but the flavor profile is different. Swedish meatballs usually have nutmeg and allspice and can be served in a brown or white sauce. Stroganoff is flavored with mushrooms and served over egg noodles. Stroganoff is also typically made with chunks of beef rather than meatballs.
Yes! Eggs act as a binding agent to keep the ball shape.
The dish was named after Count Alexander Grigorievich Stroganoff, a Russian count from the 19th century.
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Meatball Stroganoff
Ingredients
- 12 ounces egg noodles, cooked per package instructions
For the meatballs:
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 onion, grated
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
For the sauce:
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1 small onion, sliced
- 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1 cup milk, more if needed
- 1 1/2 cup beef broth
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
- 1 teaspoon white pepper, (ground pepper is fine)
- 1 cup sour cream
Instructions
For the meatballs:
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, combine all meatball ingredients.
- Form into balls. Pan fry meatballs in large skillet until completely cooked through, or bake at 400°F for 15-20 minutes. Set aside.
For the sauce:
- If you pan-fried the meatballs, sauté the onion and mushrooms in remaining grease from the meatballs. If you baked the meatballs, melt the butter in a skillet. Sauté onions and mushrooms over medium-high heat until cooked through.
- Sprinkle flour over vegetables and stir to form a roux. If the mushrooms have absorbed too much of the grease you can add a little butter here. It should look like a thick paste. While whisking, slowly add milk and beef broth until the sauce reaches a gravy consistency. Continue whisking, adding more milk if necessary to thin.
- Reduce heat to a simmer and add Dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce, thyme, salt and pepper. Add meatballs. Simmer for 15 minutes.
- Stir in sour cream and heat until hot (but not boiling). See notes regarding sauce thickness.
- Remove from heat and serve over cooked egg noodles.
Notes
- If sauce is too thick, add a little beef broth at a time until it reaches desired consistency.
- If sauce is too thin, make a cornstarch slurry in a separate bowl by mixing 1 tablespoon cornstarch and 1 tablespoon cold water. Stir until cornstarch is dissolved. Pour the slurry slowly into the stroganoff while stirring. Simmer an additional 1-2 minutes to give it time to thicken.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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So very tasty and easy to make. Our family loved it, husband licked the sauce off the plate!
I’m not sure what I did wrong but the sauce was SUPER runny and bland. The meatballs were super good tho! Husband also agreed, meatballs were good but everything else was watery and bland. Is it supposed to thicken up?
Yes, it is supposed to be like a gravy. Next time mix a little cornstarch with milk and add a little at a time to thicken if needed… then add beef broth to flavor. Hopefully that will help!
I’m allergic to seafood. So what can I use in place of the Worcestershire sauce or will it be ok without it?
You could probably use a little A-1 sauce (does that have fish in it)? If that doesn’t work you could probably just leave it out.
The only thing I can say is – yum. Thank you
It’s a good recipe, but really taste like sour cream.