beef Stroganoff

noun

beef Stro·​ga·​noff -ˈstrō-gə-ˌnȯf 

-ˈstrȯ-

: beef sliced thin and cooked in a sour-cream sauce

Examples of beef Stroganoff in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At dinner, while the new wife served beef Stroganoff or lemon Jell-O with mandarin oranges, my father would scold me about my new friends and my falling grades. — Richard Siken august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025

How to make Stroganoff This quick-and-easy one-pot meal doesn't require any specialty ingredients and takes only minutes of hands-on work, but the key to foolproof beef Stroganoff is cooking the ingredients in a particular order. — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024

This is a simple twist on classic beef Stroganoff for easy weeknight dining. — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2022

Word History

Etymology

probably from Stroganov, surname of a prominent line of Russian nobility

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for beef Stroganoff

• kalashnikov
• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
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• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff