dummy cooking 2: beef stroganoff spaghetti

I've been wanting to make beef stroganoff for more than a week now but somehow never got the time…and whenever I did, there was always some ingredient missing. 

I was finally able to make it today. 

  Ingredients:  Beef, cut into thin strips; chopped onions;  sliced button mushrooms; sour cream; butter; beef broth; salt; black pepper; paprika powder.

 Heat oil in skillet and fry beef strips.  Fry meat in batches so as not to overcrowd pan.  Set aside.

 Saute onions in skillet.

 Add button mushrooms once onions have softened.  Cook until mushrooms have softened.

 Pour in beef broth.  Simmer for 5 minutes.

  Pour in sour cream. I skipped a step with making a roux (mix of butter and flour before pouring in beef broth and sour cream).  Stir and let simmer for about 2 minutes.  Do not let it boil as this will ruin the sour cream.

 Put in fried beef strips and mixt thoroughly in sour cream mixture.

 Add salt and pepper to taste.  Simmer a bit then add paprika.

 Cook pasta in boiling water. 

  Once pasta is ready, transfer to plate.  Pour beef stroganoff sauce over pasta.

*** I tasted what I've made and it's kinda bland because I didn't put in much salt…I prefer my food with less salt than normal.  However, I think I should've added more broth and more sour cream (made only 1 cup broth and used 1 container of sour cream) because after a while the sauce just starts to dry out.

Will do better next time.