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.
Excellent!
Thank you for sharing this quick, easy recipe. Husband approved! Hallelujah!
Thanks much for giving a great review on this Salisbury Steak recipe. My family requests it all of the time. I make it for dinner frequently as the it is a quick and easy weeknight meal.
So flavorful and rich. Easy to make.
My family loved this recipe and requested it to be put in our regular rotation, especially with the homemade gravy. So flavorful and easy for a weeknight meal.
I made a double batch of this last night. Husband loved it and can’t wait for leftovers tonight. Only thing I did different was I added one egg to the meat mixture, other than that, followed exactly. Great recipe and packed with flavor. Thank you for sharing it!
I was looking for something warm on a cool Sunday. I came across your recipe. Easy to follow and I had all the ingredients. This recipe is absolutely delicious. My husband loved it. Thank you very much. This recipe is a keeper
Very easy version of Salisbury steak! I made it everyone loved it Will make it again.
Just made this for dinner, was a big hit! I had no trouble with it falling apart, I used lean meat and that seemed to help. Now my family loved it but personally, I am not a ketchup and mustard fan, to me it makes it taste more like meatloaf which I can’t stand. So next time I might leave those out, but otherwise yum! Served it with homemade mashed potatoes and a veg. Will absolutely make it again!
Absolutely love this recipe! It was delicious & even my four year old loved it! 🙌🏼
We make this every few weeks and my kids argue over who is going to help make it, not to mention there are never any left overs.
I love this meal i can’t even count how many times i’ve made this meal since i found your recipe hahaha… I used to always the oncore frozen salisbury steaks and when i first made these I was specifically told I am not allowed to buy frozen ones ever again! hahaha that’s how good these salisbury steaks are… I didn’t change a thing no need to though only complaint I ever get is not enough hahaha… I am making this for dinner tonight with baby red oven roasted potatoes…just tonight I got 2 lbs of hamburger thawed and ready to make up so no complaints on not enough hahahaha…. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe with the world!!!! I know I appreciate it very much so delicious i can’t wait for dinner tonight teehee… Happy Wednesday! :^)
So good!
This is so good!! I sautéed the onions and missions first before making the gravy though.
I LOVE this recipe! It is simple enough to make and all ingredients are already in the pantry. The only thing I do differently, is add mushrooms to the gravy.
Thank you for an amazing easy dinner recipe <3
It was amazing. My husband and son absolutely loved it. I did add minced onion to the meat mixture, but that was my only change to this recipe. Will be making this again!!
Very good! Have made before and was well liked. Definitely need to put an egg in the pattie mix. Thanks for sharing!!
Made this this evening. It’s only July 9th, but already a little tired of grilling. So I was looking for something to make on the stove and not need to use the oven and heat up the house. This was so very good!! I did add one egg to help the patties hold their shape and only had panko breadcrumbs (they worked fine). Also only had one packet of gravy mix and it was enough for our taste and gravy use. (Just in case someone wants to make it and only has one gravy packet). Definitely recommend trying this fantastic recipe!!
I made this recipe this past Saturday 6/23/23, my family absolutely loved it, I was asked when I am making it again, and they always tell me the truth, if they don’t like it am told, lol, thank you so much for this recipe, my name is Ana, I live in Miami.
Delicious and simple. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for this recipe Jen! My daughter and grandaughter absolutely won’t eat ground beef but I made your simple salisbury steak recipe the other night and they both were willing to try it and then they really liked it and then finally ate it and and asked if I would be making it again because they will eat it. Thank you from a happy Mom and Grandmom.
Made my own gravy with beef broth, corn starch… browned sliced onion and sweet peppers for color.
This was an esay and delicious recipe! I love it because you can add or make little changes as you like. I fried off the patties (a beef and ground pork moxture, set them aside when they were about 75% done, and sauteed a mix of one small onion and one shallot then after adding the patties and gravy, I added 2 small sprigs of thyme while it finished off cooking on a low setting. I also added a small cap of liquid smoke to the raw meat while mixing….oh! I also had to use crushed saltines because I had no breadcrumbs ☺️. So good though, a great recipe to spin off of!
Thank you Yvonne. I was wondering if I could use crackers instead of bread crumbs.