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Leave the TV dinners behind and learn how to make my easy salisbury steak recipe from scratch! I remember this easy microwave meal from childhood – but did you know you can make this dinner in 30 minutes from scratch? It’s so good.
It’s kind of ironic that the meal that often takes the most effort takes place at the end of the day. By the time 7 o’clock rolls around, I’m basically beat. Inconveniently, the only thing my stomach wants at the end of the day is a warm, hearty meal.
Thankfully, that’s where my 30-minute salisbury steaks come in! This recipe involves just five simple steps yet delivers all the comfort of a home-cooked meal. There’s hardly anything better than a pile of egg noodles topped with a juicy beef patty and thick, warm gravy after a stressful day. This is my favorite easy weeknight meal but it’s delicious enough for the weekends too!
Ingredients Needed
- Ground beef – We normally use 96/4 ground beef but you can use any fat content.
- Onion – large, finely chopped
- Crackers – Saltine or Ritz, finely crushed
- Spices – sage, salt, pepper, garlic
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Worcestershire sauce – Gives it an all day taste
How to Make Salisbury Steak
- In a mixing bowl, mix together the egg, onion, crackers, sage, and ground beef with ¼ teaspoon of salt and ¼ teaspoon of pepper. Use clean hands to thoroughly combine your ingredients, then divide the meat equally four ways and shape each portion into oval patties, like you’re making burgers.
- Over medium-high heat, preheat a large skillet. Once heated, add a tablespoon of olive oil and brown the patties you’ve formed. This should take about 4 to 5 minutes per side. Once browned, set them aside on a plate.
- Oil the pan again with another tablespoon and add your minced garlic. Cook until fragrant then add the Worcestershire sauce and flour. After about 30 seconds, whisk in the beef sock. Add a ½ teaspoon of salt and ¼ teaspoon of pepper to your mixture, scraping the remaining pieces of meat from the bottom of the pan as you stir it in. Continue to stir and cook for about 2 to 3 minutes, allowing the sauce to thicken.
- Once the sauce has thickened up, add your browned patties back into the pan and cook until fully cooked through.
- Serve immediately with hot cooked egg noodles, rice, mashed potatoes or alone!
Expert Tips
- You can use any crackers in place of Ritz or Saltines, although those are my favorite.
- Other than egg noodles, yummy pairings for salisbury steak are potatoes, rice, and any variety of noodle!
- If you aren’t into beef, feel free to swap the ground beef for ground turkey and the beef stock for chicken stock.
FAQs
The thing about salisbury steak is that it isn’t really steak. They’re actually succulent, seasoned patties drowned in a delicious homemade gravy!
Yes, you can swap the ground beef for ground turkey in salisbury steak.
Yes, you can freeze salisbury steak. I recommend wrapping each patty in plastic wrap and storing them in a zip loc bag and pouring the sauce into an airtight container separately. The meal should last for to two to three months in the freezer.
Salisbury Steak Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 large egg lightly beaten
- ¼ large onion finely chopped (about ⅓ cup)
- 7-8 Ritz or saltine crackers crushed fine (about ¼ cup)
- ¼ teaspoon ground sage
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 ½ cups beef stock
- Egg noodles for serving optional
Instructions
- Carefully mix the beef with the egg, onion, crackers, sage and 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper using your hands. Divide the meat into 4 equal portions and shape into oval patties.
- Boil the egg noodles while cooking the meat, if using.
- Preheat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to the pan. Brown the patties, about 4-5 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate.
- Place another tablespoon of olive oil in the pan with garlic and cook for just a few seconds until the garlic is fragrant. Add Worcestershire sauce and flour and cook for about 30 seconds, then whisk in the beef stock. Add 1/2 teaspoon salt and another 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Cook, stirring to get up the bits of meat from the bottom of the pan, until the sauce begins to thicken (about 2-3 minutes depending on the depth of your pan).
- Add the patties and juices back into the pan and cook, stirring the sauce occasionally, until the meat is cooked through (2-5 minutes). Taste and season as needed with salt and pepper.
- Serve hot over egg noodles.
Recipe Notes
- Any cracker for the Ritz
- Ground Turkey for the beef
- Chicken stock for the beef stock
- If you’re out of eggs, use milk instead (or even a bit of tomato sauce)
- Any noodle works, not just egg noodles
- Serve over noodles or potatoes or rice.
Always turns out great for me. My husband will even eat this with noodles, and he doesn’t care for noodles much.
It’s in my savers recipes!!!
I have loved all the sweet recipes I have tried on your site so I decided to take a look at your savory selection. So glad I did! I made the Salisbury Steak for my anti veggie husband and he loved it. Of course I made mashed potatoes too so he could fully appreciate the wonderful gravy! The only thing I’m going to do next time is use reduced sodium beef broth since he does not have the same love of salt that I do. Thank you for sharing your savory side! The recipe is a keeper and now I have a bunch more that I’m going to try!
Delicious and easy! My husband is a real meat and potatoes guy and he loved it!
Wow! So easy, so delicious!! This will be on our regular rotation!
So glad you enjoyed it!
This is my new go to for the days I’m not sure what to make. The ingrediants are always in the kitchen. The first time I made it I did it TV dinner style with mashed potatoes and peas.
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