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.
Hello from Kentucky :) This is THE best salisbury steak recipe I’ve ever had!! My son loves it as well! Well worth the effort!! I’ll give it 5 stars! :)
I am going to make this tonight. It sounds delicious and I’m sure it will be. In reference to the “snarky comment”, I must say I love Jake’s response.
I fixed this WONDERFUL recipe this past week for me & my son & we absolutely LOVED it!!! Thank you, Jen! :) I DID add 1 egg, as suggested & it turned out great!!! Thank you, Jen! :)
Followed the recipe and it was great!! My kids are very picky but loved this!!! My son said it wasnt good it was awesome!
This looks delicious! I was curios could you make the patties and freeze them and then just defrost and make with gravy? Thanks
Lol, was just reading comments & many said 2 add an egg. Welp , Oppps , mine is already cooking . Hope it dont crumble up. & if it does . Well, ill just pour the whole thing over tattoes. :)
Excellent recipe, I made a few modifications, do add an egg, add 1/8 pepper, add 1/2 c. Of water & heavy cream to gravy, also add sautéed onions & mushrooms to gravy. I used 2 onions & 8oz. Sliced white mushrooms. Over homemade baby red mashed potatoes, skins on of course, use heavy cream in potatoes also, brings flavor out. Fresh green beans. Totally awesome! ?
My husband says “This is EPIC! How soon can we have it again?” Super delicious with some roasted garlic mashed potatoes.
So many comments! I am trying this in about an hour and plan to add the egg. I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate a recipe that is easy to do for a full time working mom on the run! I hate cooking but when I find a recipe that is this easy and the ingredients are all things in my cupboard I feel like a little piece of heaven entered my life! Thanks a ton for sharing and helping out another everyday mom.
Thanks for a delicious recipe! Made this last evening for supper. Good thing I made enough for left-overs, because my husband wants them for supper tonight! Made as written except for one thing…..I had no gravy mix on hand, but did have beef stock, so I made the gravy from that instead. I’m sure that it made very little difference. This would be wonderful gravy for swedish meat balls too. Love the recipe! Thanks again!
It’s too bad there are so many negative people in the world( Jennifer) regarding your remarks about grain feed beef.
I tried the recipe, it was wonderful.
Loved it
Just made this dish for dinner. It is so good. I noted there is no salt or pepper in ingredients. But…for me , I did not miss it and I’m glad. I’m always happy to use less salt. I prefer Salisbury steak to a good hamburger. So comforting. I will make again and again. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic recipe. Whole family enjoyed it. Definite keeper.
This recipe was super simple, which I like. A few adjustments I would make would be a little less breadcrumbs, I feel the flavor and texture of the patties kind of got bogged down with all the bread. Other than that this may be my go to recipe for a quick week night meal!
Looks delish!! Is there any adjustments needed if I use another of beef gravy vs. the 2 dry packs?
TIA
I just made these …Flavour wise…Great…But I’d leave out the breadcrumbs, perhaps I should have cooked them a tad longer,they were ” mushy” I’d prefer them a tad drier ( I know that sounds goofy) ( who likes dry meat lol) But..It was good, I’ll do it again, Thanks!!
Great recipient! Sometimes I make this into a meatloaf, saves a little time. Also, freezes well!!
I never made his recipe before other than simply made hanburger patties, cooked them and made gravy but all this stuff going into it sounds delicious. I have the meat all prepared for supper so am very much looking forward to tasting these delicious steaks. I also read all the comments and to all, thanks for the advices, changes to the recipe and adding this and that and substiuting this for that. I took notes of all that and will use those comments.
Thank you for the recipe.
I’m making this right now and it smells so good. Thanks for the recipe!