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.
So many comments lol! We loved this! My patties fell apart so I just put the pieces on top of my mashed potatoes and it was still yummy.
The meal was awesome. The gravy is perfect. Thank you and 5 stars to you.
This is my family’s favorite soup. A delicious and easy recipe. Thank you for sharing
Sounds like an easy and very delicious recipe..which I love … Along with our President..!!!
My family loved this. I always bought the frozen Salisbury Steak. Now I make my own & they like it better. Thanks!!!
I love the taste and smell of these I make them a often with mash potatoes and a vegetable very easy dinner.
Easy to make and delicious.
This is one of my hubbys favorites. I make it about once a week now. I think I am going to try it with the stove top next time, like one poster suggested. But I wanted to thank you for the recipe…it’s a keeper!
Great recipe! My daughter loved it and even had seconds. I didn’t use the egg reviewers spoke of, but I will next time. Even without egg it was great. Only one fell apart. Will add this to my dinner rotations for sure. Thank you.
Oh, and I made my own gravy with one Lipton onion soup pk, a lil flour and water.. awesome!
I have made this many times and I found that if you don’t add an egg to the meat mixture the patties fall apart. Delicious recipe though, everyone loves it.
great easy recipe
I just made this tonight and everyone LOVED it! It was simple and didn’t take a lot of time to prepare or cook, which is a huge plus for a busy family of five.
I made this tonight and it was delicious!! I had most of the ingredients in my pantry. I’m sure it will become a staple dinner in my rotation. The only problem I ran into was after I poured in the gravy it was hard to wisk around the patties so the gravy ended up a little lumpy. Any suggestions?
Hi Traci. For the gravy, i used room temp water, whisked the ingredients until the mix diluted. I also removed the patties from the pan before pouring the gravy misture, stirred until started to boil, (addded mushrroms, onions and red wine). Once it started to get on the consitence I liked i returned the patties, covered them with the mushrooms/onion, turned down to simmer and covered until reheated. Without the patties was easier to stir and get a smooth sauce and prevented breaking the patties.
I doubled this recipe for make ahead freezer meals. Doubled all the ingredients, used an egg and Dijon mustard. My family loves it.
Excellent!
Great recipe & so easy. Only thing I changed is using Pepperidge Farm Herb Stuffing (my go-to for bread crumbs) & adding saute’d mushrooms. BTW, unless it says 100% grass-fed beef store bought grass fed beef means they get to graze 10-15 a day. Same with free range eggs. Chicks are only allowed out of the coop for a short time daily.
Thank you for this recipe! My picky 3 year old cleaned her plate! 😮 that’s almost unheard of. I didn’t read any comments until I was already cooking so I didn’t add an egg. Only one broke apart and I was planning to cut it in half for my girls anyway. I also used 1/2 pound beef and 1/2 turkey as we’re trying to cut back on red meats where we can.
Also, my husband said “I don’t usually like Salisbury steak but this is good.” Definitely going to save this one!! Yum!
The Salisbury Steak is 5 stars in my book!! I will definitely be making this meal again!
Salsbury steak is a true comfort meal. My husband loves it. I think I might make this for him as a surprise for dinner.
I will be making this tonight. With Mashed Potatoes and green beans. I will make my own gravy and putting grilled onions on it as well. No dehydrated or instant onions. Its got to be the real deal. Instead of the bread crumbs I will be using minute rice.
Thank you for the Recipe.
Did you cook the minute rice first?