Beef Stroganoff

, in its simplest form, is simply tender beef with a mushroom and sour cream sauce served over rice or noodles.

The current accepted history of this dish dates back to the 1890s when a chef* working for Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov (the famous Russian general) invented the recipe for a cooking competition in St. Petersburg. After the fall of Imperial Russia, the recipe was popularly served in the hotels and restaurants of China before