Weeknight Salisbury Steak

Prep time: 15 minutes | Cook time: 40-45 minutes | Total time: 1-hour | Yield: 4 servings

Take a trip back to the TV dinners of your childhood with this best weeknight Salisbury steak recipe! Only this homemade version is a lot better than what you used to eat from foil trays. You have control over the ingredients and know exactly what went into the steaks and gravy, and you can adjust the seasonings to your taste.

This quick weeknight Salisbury steak recipe is great! It’s total comfort food, and I’m not kidding when I tell you that you need to give this a try tonight. The recipe is pretty straightforward, and much of the cooking is of the “saute this and remove, saute that and remove, then put both back in pan” sort of thing. However, I’d call this an intermediate-level recipe, the type where if you’ve been looking for family friendly weeknight Salisbury steak recipes to cook with your kids, this is one where you’ll want to take the lead while your kids look on.

Make this simple weeknight Salisbury steak meal as soon as you can because once you taste it, you’re going to wish you’d made it sooner! It’s so yummy, and I can’t believe I took so long to start making it. Don’t make the same mistake I did. This is a recipe you’ll want to start making immediately.

It was INCREDIBLE!

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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Oh, it tastes so, so good. And because you can customize the seasonings, you can find that exact combination that hits right.
• It is nutritious and a great source of protein.
• While this might not be an easy weeknight Salisbury steak for beginners, it’s not difficult to cook. If you can make a meatloaf and sauce from scratch, you can make this.
• This is so nostalgic! If you like reminiscing about your childhood and the foods available then, here’s your chance to play around with the seasonings to re-create the Salisbury steaks you ate as a kid with TV dinners.

Ingredients for Weeknight Salisbury Steak:

For the steaks:

1 ½ lb. Ground beef

1 Large egg

1 tbsp. Minced onion

½ C. Panko bread crumbs

½ tsp. Garlic powder

Salt and pepper to taste

2 Tbsp. Olive oil

For the gravy:

1 Onion sliced into rings

1 C. Mushrooms sliced

2 Tbsp. Flour

2 C. Beef broth

1 tsp. Minced garlic

2 Tbsp. Butter

Salt and pepper to taste

Ingredient Notes & Substitutions

Panko bread crumbs: Panko bread crumbs are really flaky and light compared to what you’d call “regular” bread crumbs here. The result is a lighter patty that’s also more tender. You can use regular bread crumbs instead, but the texture of the steaks will change.

Minced onion: You can use yellow or white onions as you see fit, although yellow onions tend to be the one people grab when cooking with ground beef.

Flour: Flour acts as a thickener for sauces and gravies.

Butter: Try to use unsalted here to help control the overall sodium level in the final dish.

How to Make It

Step1: Mix together the ground beef, egg, minced onion, bread crumbs, garlic powder and salt and pepper to taste until well combined. You can see it’s already starting off like a form of meatloaf.

Step2: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Step3: Form the meat mixture into four even patties, and heat the olive oil in an oven-proof skillet over medium high heat. Make the patties oblong if you want to imitate TV dinners.

Step4: Sear the patties on both sides in the heated skillet, and set aside. You’re not done cooking the patties, though.

Step5: In the same skillet, add the butter and reduce the heat to medium.

Step6: Add the mushrooms and onions to the skillet, and saute until they become tender.

Step7: Stir in the minced garlic, and add salt and pepper to taste. Saute for 30 seconds.

Step8: Sprinkle the flour over the mixture in the skillet, and saute for 2 minutes.

Step9: Slowly whisk in the beef broth until well combined. Simmer the sauce until it begins to thicken.

Step10: Return the patties to the skillet, spoon the gravy over the top, and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.

Tips for Success

Use 80/20 ground beef here. That’s lean enough to not make the patties overly greasy but also fatty enough to provide some very good flavor. You can also use 85/15 if you’re trying to cut calories and want to make a healthy weeknight Salisbury steak version.

This is a recipe where you really want to follow mise en place, or the practice of having everything ready. Do any measuring or cutting first, and then start cooking. The mising and sauteing stages can move quickly.

Storage & Reheating

Leftovers from Salisbury steak need to stay in the refrigerator. Let them cool, and within two hours of cooking being finished, place them in an airtight container. Use them up within three or four days. You can reheat them in the oven or on the stove, covered, with a little extra water.

You actually can freeze Salisbury steak, but do so only with cooked, leftover steak that’s cooled. Place each steak with some gravy in a freezer-friendly container and use up within three months. Let the frozen steak thaw in the refrigerator and then warm up in an oven. Always ensure that you check the steak with an instant-read thermometer to ensure you’ve cooked the reheated steak to 165F internally.

Serving Suggestions

ENJOY

Potatoes are a classic side for Salisbury steak, especially tater tots (if you remember your 1980s TV dinners). Try these Homemade Crispy Tater Tots, or if you prefer bread to potatoes, these Mini Pizza Bites Pretzels. Add a salad to balance out all the protein and carbs you may end up getting. Your homemade weeknight Salisbury steak ideas for meals are going to be delicious.

Notes

Salisbury steak is essentially a highly flavored meatloaf patty swimming in gravy. It gets its unusual name from Dr. James Salisbury, a doctor in the 1800s who promoted lean ground beef patties as health food. What separates Salisbury steak from meatloaf is the fact that meatloaf is baked like a loaf in the oven, an Salisbury steak is pan-fried, almost like a lot of steaks. The mushroom gravy is also a hallmark of Salisbury steak, while meatloaf tends to have ketchup or barbecue sauce glazes.

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Weeknight Salisbury Steak

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour

Servings: 4 servings

4 from 7 votes

Review Recipe

Ingredients 

• For the steaks:
• 1 ½ lb. Ground beef
• 1 Large egg
• 1 tbsp. Minced onion
• ½ C. Panko bread crumbs
• ½ tsp. Garlic powder
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 2 Tbsp. Olive oil
• For the gravy:
• 1 Onion sliced into rings
• 1 C. Mushrooms sliced
• 2 Tbsp. Flour
• 2 C. Beef broth
• 1 tsp. Minced garlic
• 2 Tbsp. Butter
• Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

• Step1: Mix together the ground beef, egg, minced onion, bread crumbs, garlic powder and salt and pepper to taste until well combined.
• Step2: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Step3: Form the meat mixture into four even patties, and heat the olive oil in an oven-proof skillet over medium high heat.
• Step4: Sear the patties on both sides in the heated skillet, and set aside.
• Step5: In the same skillet, add the butter and reduce the heat to medium.
• Step6: Add the mushrooms and onions to the skillet, and saute until becoming tender.
• Step7: Stir in the minced garlic and salt and pepper to taste, and saute until 30 seconds.
• Step8: Sprinkle the flour over the mixture in the skillet, and saute for 2 minutes.
• Step9: Slowly whisk in the beef broth until well combined. Simmer the sauce until it begins to thicken.
• Step10: Return the patties to the skillet, spoon the gravy overtop, and bake for 25-30 minutes.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 693kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 52g | Fat: 44g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 23g | Trans Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 213mg | Sodium: 913mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 3g

Author: Marta