Healthy Mushroom Stroganoff {Easy and Creamy!} - iFoodReal.com (2024)

Quick, easy meatless Healthy Mushroom Stroganoffready in 30 minutes! This heartyvegetarian mealwith mushrooms, pasta and a creamy sauce is lower in calories and fat, carnivore approved and endlessly comforting!

For more meat-free pasta dishes try this zucchini and tomato pasta!

The flavors in this healthy mushroom stroganoff are not only rich and balanced but elevated. We are not vegetarians but definitely trying to eat less meat.

And mushroom stroganoff with 2 lbs of meaty brown mushrooms is a good substitute for a beef stroganoff. Savory mushroom noodles with a flavor loaded creamy sauce, even my carnivore husband can’t say No.

Why Make This Recipe?

• Meatless: Going meatless once a week can save on your grocery budget as well as increase fiber, vitamin and nutrient intake.
• Flexible recipe: Add white wine or not for stroganoff sauce, use mushrooms you have on hand or try any dairy in your fridge!
• Healthy comfort food: Meaty mushrooms combined with creamy dairy and warm pasta, this meal satisfies on wintry days!
• Superfood mushrooms: Are a plant source of vitamin D, rich in vitamin B and contain high levels of the antioxidant nutrient selenium, if you didn’t like mushrooms then, you will now with this mushrooms noodles recipe!
• Easy to make: So much flavor, ready in only 30 minutes!

Ingredients You Will Need

• Pasta: You can use any pasta that has openings and cavities to scoop up the stroganoff sauce. Not spaghetti. We like to use whole grain pasta for its fiber, vitamins and nutrients vs. regular pasta.

Why not egg noodles? By all means use egg noodles if that is your preference; our family prefers pasta with grooves to scoop up the sauce! If you are avoiding eggs or need a lower cholesterol pasta, using a different pasta such as penne, rigatoni, macaroni, rigatoni, rotini might become your new favorite for mushroom noodles!

• Mushrooms: I like to use brown mushrooms, also known as baby bellas or mini portobello. They don’t cost much more than white mushrooms but offer more flavor in the stroganoff sauce.

• Yogurt:To cut back on saturated fat, I like to use plain yogurt with 3.5% fat content.
• Onion, garlic and butter: Fresh onion and garlic sauteed in butter add sweetness, creaminess and flavor to stroganoff.
• Broth and spices: Any low sodium broth like vegetable and mushroom will work. Dried thyme goes well with mushrooms.
• Cornstarch or flour:This acts as a thickener for sauce and comes down to your personal preference and what’s in your pantry.

How to Make Healthy Mushroom Stroganoff

• Prep: Wash mushrooms and slice. To cook pasta, I recommend to start boiling water at same time as you start sauteing the onion. Then add pasta to water when you start making sauce. Maximum freshness guaranteed.
• Saute onionin melted butter: Just until translucent. Add dried thyme at the end to help it release its natural oils and flavors.
• Cook mushrooms and garlic for about 10 minutes: Or until a bit golden brown and amount reduced in half. Mushrooms consist of 90% water, so cooking them on medium-high heat before adding sauce helps with flavor.
• Make sauce: Whisk broth, cornstarch, salt and pepper and adding to the skillet. Let mushroom sauce first boil and then simmer for 5 minutes. And don’t forget to add pasta to boiling water now.

• Make sauce creamy by stirring in yogurt or sour cream off of heat. No need to cook it, especially yogurt that might curdle.
• Serve: Add cooked pasta to plates and scoop generous amount of sauce with mushrooms on top. Then nothing is better than freshly grated Parmesan cheese and a sprinkle of fresh parsley or dill, and a pinch of freshly cracked pepper. Call me when you make mushroom stroganoff. 🙂

Optional Add-In’s and Variations

• Mushrooms: You can use white, wild or combination of any mushrooms.
• Yogurt substitution: If you are used to less tangy taste of sour cream, go for it. You could also use plain Greek yogurt.
• Olive oil: Can be used instead of butter.
• White wine: Replace 1/2 cup of broth with white wine for additional layer of flavor.
• Seasonings: Sub dried oregano for thyme if you would like.
• Thickener: Arrowroot starch, tapioca or potato starch could also be used.
• Dairy free: Use your favorite dairy free brand of dairy free yogurt and Parmesan. Taste may be slightly different.
• Worcestershire sauce: Adds a umami savory layer of flavor! Use a vegan brand or regular for that additional meaty taste.
• Umami taste: Alternately, add a splash of soy sauce, amino acids or small amount of miso paste to your mushroom noodles dish.

Tips for Best Results

• Don’t over soak your mushrooms in water: Mushrooms are spongelike in texture and absorb water and then that leads to a spongy texture when you eat them! A better way to remove the peat moss from them is to gently wipe them with a dry paper towel.
• Be careful not to overcrowd your pan: You want your mushrooms to sear and become a beautiful brown color, if you crowd the pan you risk steaming them instead, which also leads to a spongy texture!
• Don’t salt your mushrooms: This also draws out moisture, which once again could lead to a spongy texture!
• Stir mushrooms occasionally: Allow them to sear beautifully on each side, this leads to the incredible flavorful taste!
• Don’t mix your cornstarch slurry in the pan: This will not thicken properly, it will clump! Make sure to stir together your slurry separately then add to the skillet, stirring as you add it.

FAQs

How to Serve Mushroom Stroganoff?

• Grains: You could also serve this up with quinoa or a grain instead.
• A simple salad: Lettuce salad, lemon kale salad or cucumber and tomato salad would all
  round out a dinner of mushroom stroganoff.
• Fresh bread: Added to the table with garlic olive oil dip always gets big smiles in my house, plus that bread comes in handy for sopping up all that delicious stroganoff sauce!
• Protein: You could also serve this over top of baked chicken breast or Instant Pot pork chops!

How to Store

Refrigerate sauce with mushrooms in an airtight container for up to 5 days. Reheat in a skillet by simmering on low heat and stirring. Perfect for healthy lunch ideas!

You can freeze mushroom stroganoff but I highly recommend to leave out yogurt or sour cream for any portions you plan to freeze. It freezes great and add dairy when reheating. Also don’t freeze with pasta, as cooked pasta doesn’t freeze well.

More Mushroom Recipes

• Mushroom bean soup
• Mushroom appetizers
• Stuffed mushrooms
• Lentil casserole with mushrooms
• Chicken and mushrooms
• Instant Pot mushroom risotto

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