Simple Salisbury Steak
on Jan 30, 2023, Updated Aug 29, 2024
Salisbury Steak is a perfect weeknight recipe to serve the family. Plate up with mashed potatoes or tasty veggies for the best comfort food!
I’ve always loved this recipe for Simple Salisbury Steak. We’ve made this dish for dinner time-and-time again and loved it every time! Follow along with us to make this solid, standby dinner dish.
Why You’ll Love This Salisbury Steak
- This is a classic comfort food.
- This is a quick and easy meal without a lot of prep work.
- It is simple to modify to meet your picky eaters tastes.
- We love that this recipe is fairly inexpensive to make.
- It’s a reader favorite. Since posted on my blog in 2015, it has been shared over 1.5 million times. The user ratings are REAL and not inflated. Be sure to look at the comments below and you will see additional helpful tips and suggestions.
Easy and delicious ground beef recipes are a must-have in your kitchen’s cookbook! Ground beef almost always seems to be marked-down or on sale at the local grocery and it can serve as the base to a number of delicious recipes. From soups to stews to a classic cheeseburger, there’s always a use for this versatile food! One of the tastiest and easiest recipes you can make with your meat is some Easy Salisbury Steak.
Our Salisbury Steak recipe blows the frozen and TV dinner varieties out of the water! They can’t compare to this easy stovetop version that needs only a little extra time. It’s also the perfect dinner dish for all the picky eaters in your family- we keep things simple but leave plenty of room to add in whatever you’d like! The gravy is easy to make too, using some convenient brown gravy packets. With all this in mind, you’ll love this recipe for Homemade Salisbury Steak!
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Delicious Side Dishes to pair with our Recipe
- With all this gravy, we have to recommend pairing our Simple Salisbury Steak with The Best Mashed Potatoes. These rich, creamy potatoes are perfect for pairing with a delicious, meaty main course like our steaks. Super easy to make too!
- If you’re looking for some tasty, vibrant greens to plate with this dish, try some Garlic Green Beans. This buttery, savory side pairs well with darn-near anything- our Salisbury steaks included! One of our favorite veggie sides right now.
- Need something a little sweeter? Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots are what you need! This easy, 3-ingredient recipe cooks up quickly on the stovetop and is oh-so delicious. Perfect for holiday or anyday dinner!
Salisbury Steak Ingredients
We tried to keep our recipe simple for all the picky eaters you might be cooking for. There’s plenty of substitutes and modifications you can make that we’ll list here as well! We liked the way The Pioneer Woman kept a similar recipe simple, so we took some inspiration from her.
For our ground beef patties, you’ll need…
- Ground Beef – We prefer a lean ground beef for this recipe. It’ll help your patties hold together much better! If you have any dietary concerns, mixing or substituting the beef with ground turkey is fine.
- Bread Crumbs – We usually use breadcrumbs but we’ve seen all sorts of substitutes here! Experiment with rice, stovetop stuffing mix, crackers, or even oats.
- Ketchup
- Mustard – Dijon mustard is an interesting substitute to try here.
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Garlic Powder & Onion Powder
- Salt and Pepper
Our gravy, meanwhile, is going to use…
- Brown Gravy Mix Packets – Alternatively, you could make this recipe with our Easy Brown Gravy!
- Ketchup
- Worcestershire
How to Make Salisbury Steak
We love this Easy Salisbury Steak recipe because it’s so easy to prep and make! To make some for yourself, here’s all you need to do:
- We’ll start this recipe off my mixing up our meat and forming our patties from the mixture.
- Cook in a large skillet over medium heat until browned on both sides.
- Whisk together gravy ingredients until mixed.
- Pour gravy into skillet over patties and cook until thickened.
We’ve also made a video for this recipe, which we’ve pasted just below! Check it out!
Variations for this Salisbury Steak Recipe
- You can top your steaks with all sorts of veggies. Caramelize some onions with your patties or saute some mushrooms to go with them! Some of our crew loves mushroom gravy.
- There are plenty of other additives you can add to the gravy as well! Try substituting one of your gravy packets out for your favorite soup mixes- maybe use our Copycat Lipton Onion Soup Mix Recipe?
FAQs about Salisbury Steaks
There are many different reasons for steak patties not holding together or staying shaped perfectly. One reason would be the fat content of the ground beef used in the recipe. If you’re remaking this recipe and have noticed your patties tend to fall apart fairly easy, you might want to crack an egg into your meat mixture.
Note that one pound of ground beef will make about 4 hamburger patties.
Hamburger steak usually only contains salt and pepper, whereas Salisbury steak adds fillers.
The main difference is in the way it is shaped and cooked. Salisbury steak is formed into patties and cooked in a skillet. Meatloaf is formed into a loaf in a loaf pan and baked.
Tips for Making the Salisbury Steak
- Use your hands – This is as easy as dropping all of our patty ingredients into a mixing bowl and mixing it all together with our hands. Don’t even try to stir with a spoon!
- Don’t worry about the shape – If they are oval patties or round, they taste the same.
- You can make the patties ahead – Form patties and place in an airtight container and place in freezer.
- Cook on both sides until all the pink is gone – if you want to be extra safe, probe your patties with a food thermometer to check for doneness at around 160 degrees.
- Garnish with freshly chopped parsley for a finished look.
Other Delicious Ground Beef Recipes
- For another tasty ground beef recipe, try our Classic Meatloaf. Meatloaf is a timeless and juicy dish packed with flavor! This recipe with a tangy ketchup glaze makes an easy and simple dinner.
- Homemade Hamburger Helper Beef Noodle is so much better than store-bought. This ground beef recipe can be made with a few simple ingredients and a few minutes time.
- Hamburger Soup is another great comfort food. It’s hearty with vegetables, potato, and ground beef. A perfect weeknight meal. Make this delicious beef dish tonight!
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Simple Salisbury Steak
Ingredients
Patties
- 1 lb Lean Ground Beef
- 1/3 cup Bread Crumbs
- 2 tsp Ketchup
- 1 tsp Mustard
- 1 tsp Worcestershire
- 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder
- 1/2 tsp Onion Powder
- Salt and Pepper, to taste
Gravy
- 2 packets Brown Gravy Mix
- 2 cup hot Water
- 1 tsp Ketchup
- 1/2 tsp Worcestershire
Instructions
- Combine all pattie ingredients in a large bowl and massage with your hands until ingredients are incorporated.
- Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
- Cook patties on both sides until no longer pink.
- Lower temperature to low.
- Whisk together gravy mix and water until well blended.
- Whisk in ketchup and Worcestershire and pour over patties in skillet.
- Allow to simmer until gravy warms and thickens.
Hey Jen! I love the recipe I am going to try it with the egg also. You know I am 64 and over the years I have learned that the people who think they know the most always know the least. The snarky comment above was so uncalled for and ugly and I hope you didnt let it bother you.
some people are just plain rude and should be shunned from positive uplifting people. Try to not let their comments bother us because they aren’t worth the time it takes to be bothered. Takes time to learn how to not let it bother you but it is well worth the practice. Who cares why they are rude and hurtful, most people like that get off on it so it is best to just ignore them and as I say, “shun them”. They are from a different breed of human and are very un-evolved. I am making the recipe tonight and I will definitely put an egg in and use the bread stuffing, I love the stuffing in comfort foods. Thank you for posting this wonderful recipe with all the great pics.
I thought it was tasty too. Because I am feeding a family of 5, I doubled the recipe. I also cooked some onions in butter until they were translucent, and then added a little bit of flour to the mixture, cooked for a minute, and then added the gravy mix, cold water, and some beef broth on top of that.
Nice and simple. Thank you.
YUM!!! My son requested this for dinner tonight and it was the best I’ve ever made. Really enjoyed the flavor and it was super easy. Will be keeping this recipe handy! Thanks so much!
Thank you for the Salisbury recipe. It was so yummy!
There is no mention of draining the grease before adding the gravy mixture. Does it need to be drained?
Yes drain the grease :)
Hi Jen, this would be a great contribution to Food on Friday: Beef over at Carole’s Chatter. Please do bring it over to join in the fun. Cheers
Looks delicious! Thank you for sharing it on the #HomeMattersParty
Yummy, yummy in my tummy! We’d have the mushrooms and onions with ours! So glad you share with us at Merry Monday.
My mom used to make this all the time when I was younger. Boy, does that bring back memories. Thanks for linking up with Delicious Dishes Link Party!
Since finding this recipe I make it for me and my wife all the time. I use 2 lbs of meat so I double everything but instead of onion powder I use a pack of onion soup mix. Its wonderful. I also triple the gravy because I usually make mashed potatoes with it. A VERY yummy tasting dish. We love it. Thank you.
Is there no need to add about 1/4 cup of water with the onion soup mix? I use the soup mix in my hamburgers but it calls for a little water.
These look fantastic! And it’s high time I try salisbury steak on my little ones (because really, what’s not to love?!) Pinning!
Made this tonight. It was delicious! I did take the reviewers advice above and added an egg. Came out perfect. Will definitely make it again!
For the bread crumbs, are they supposed to be dried, or just regular bread crumbled?
I just use regular store purchased dry bread crumbs fro ma can. Ive been wondering how Italian flavored ones would be.
I use Italian flavored bread crumbs and it tastes delicious to me! :)
If I use 2lbs of beef for my hungry family of 6 will there be enough gravy or do I need to double all?
I triple it. If you serve mashed potatoes too then maybe quadruple it :)
ADD AN EGG!!! Followed the recipe to a T and the patties crumbled. Popped them in the oven.
Agreed!! Not enough binder with the breadcrumbs, they fell apart when I pan fried them. Egg is a must.
mine also fell apart , I’ll try an egg next time
Great recipe! My wife and I were craving Salisbury steak and decided to use this recipe and it did not dissapoint. We added one egg to 2 pounds of meat but other everything was right on and very easy. Thanks
Do you have an estimated cooking time for the salisberry steaks once gravy is poured overtop of them?
Grass fed beef but chemical filled ingredients for the gravy….interesting combination. Will be trying the recipe but will keep the chemicals out of mine.
Also, use ginger ale instead of water for gravy……ah-mazing!!
What does that do for the flavor of the gravy?
Awesome , just bought some this weekend will be trying this recipe along w/ ginger ale!!! Thanks for tip ?Ms. Linda.
Interesting idea!! I am trying that next time. Thanks!
Too bad you didn’t choose to leave your attitude out of your post Jennifer. Probably you think your snarky comment would come off as clever, it didn’t
btw, where did Jen mention using grass fed beef?
You took the words right out of my fingertips! Thank you.
She didn’t so much mention it, but the beef in the pic is grass-fed beef from (Aldi’s?) I think.
Don’t all cows graze on grass? I just have ground chuck and brown gravy because it sounds yummy. I think whatever you use today probably something in it is processed don’t mind her comment, it’s an awesome recipe!
You’re kidding, right? No, not all cows graze on grass. The beef you buy at your local grocery store comes from factory-farmed cows that are raised on concrete feedlots and are fed a completely unnatural diet of processed grains to help fatten them more quickly for slaughter… not to mention the antibiotics they have to consume to survive the deplorable conditions. Which you also eat. I am shocked by how little interest people have in what they are eating, and how what they eat was treated.
How on earth can you tell from looking at a picture. It could b ground reindeer meat for all I know
I agree Kevin, I’d wondered if it was just me or if everyone caught the nasty attitude in Jennifer’s post, as well as the remark RE: grain fed beef, when there was no mention made of using grain fed beef.
lol! I was thinking the same thing! Do you HAVE to be snarky? Interesting….
Say it like it is Kevin! If it bothers her let her get on a Organic Site!! WTH?
Sounds like Satisfied to me!! YUM!!
Serve me up chemical yes please!
Right! Some people are plain rude!
I am with you, Kevin!
To Kevin!
I am right there with you.
Probably didn’t need to post! Geez, if you don’t like a recipe, then move on — no need to add your snarky comment.
Vanessa!
Right on……….
Give it a rest. Make it your way without the soapbox. Thanks Cinco for a delicious looking recipe. Can’t wait to try.
Then eat a salad!
Why do you have to cut someone down? All you had to do was make your own adjustments to the recipe. You didn’t have to be so snotty.
Dang hater much?
She shared a recipe… your choice of type of ingredients is up to you. Leave your judgmental attitude at the “door”.
There’s always that one person…?
Wow, what a snarky comment. Kudos for you for posting a ridiculous comments on someone’s post, if you don’t have anything nice or constructive to say move along.
McCormicks make a organic brown gravy mix with all the best
Critical are we!? To each his or her own. If you don’t like the recipe, don’t use it. If you don’t like the president try and forget he’s not ours!! Many issues need addressed in this country. Don’t bash on someone’s recipe!
Don’t bash on someone’s President, snowflake. MAGA!!!!!!
damn ur a bitch lol
Everything is a chemical so good luck with that
You’re a Chemical!
That’s obnoxious and unnecessary. Cooking posts should be free of rude snarky comments.
LOVE YOU RECIPES !!!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR POST ON FACEBOOK
Great recipe ..instead of bread crumbs use a package of stove top stuffing…
I do this everytime I need breadcrumbs. Especially in meatloaf, I even use it for porkchops.
That’s an idea- yum!!
This will be iny rotations for supper. I added onion soup mix in it also. So good and simple. My kind of recipe.
This meal tasted great. I’d make it again. I had it with mashed potatoes.