This Simple Salisbury Steak will make for a perfect weeknight recipe idea to serve the family. Add in some mashed potatoes and your favorite veggies for the ultimate comfort food. An easy meal idea that is inexpensive and tasty.
Simple Salisbury Steak
My kiddos have always been quite picky eaters. We have looked for ways to hide some of their favorites into some dishes. They now love our One Pot Pepperoni Pizza Pasta and also our Chicken and Broccoli Pasta.
Since the kids were very young, they took a liking to gravy. They were also fans of hamburgers. One of their favorite dishes was Meatloaf. So I often make a good Slow Cooker Meatloaf for dinner. The hubby and I decided years ago to have them try Salisbury Steaks. They were a hit with the kids immediately. So for years we have been making them. I recently came across the Pioneer Woman’s Salisbury Steak Meatballs and decided to add some additional flavors to our Salisbury Steaks. The addition of bread crumbs, ketchup, and mustard were great for extra flavor.
We will usually make one pan of Salisbury Steaks for the kids and one pan for us. Our pan gets loaded with mushrooms and onions too! The gravy and spices added to simple ground beef patties just kicks a boring meal into a pan of comforting patties. I use packaged dry gravy mix (you could use homemade or even jarred gravy) to keep the meal quick and simple. Make some homemade mashed potatoes or even a box of instant potatoes works when in a pinch.
The ingredients needed to make your own homemade Salisbury Steaks is so simple. You will need ground beef and other items found in your fridge and pantry. You can have dinner on the table in know time at all.
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
Gravy:
2 packets Brown Gravy Mix
2 cup hot Water
1 tsp Ketchup
1/2 tsp Worcestershire
DIRECTIONS
Combine all patty 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.
Adapted from: The Pioneer Woman!
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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
- 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.
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Great recipe ..instead of bread crumbs use a package of stove top stuffing…
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!!
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.
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.
Probably didn’t need to post! Geez, if you don’t like a recipe, then move on — no need to add your snarky comment.
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.
Do you have an estimated cooking time for the salisberry steaks once gravy is poured overtop of them?
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
ADD AN EGG!!! Followed the recipe to a T and the patties crumbled. Popped them in the oven.
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 🙂
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.
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!
These look fantastic! And it’s high time I try salisbury steak on my little ones (because really, what’s not to love?!) Pinning!
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.
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!
Yummy, yummy in my tummy! We’d have the mushrooms and onions with ours! So glad you share with us at Merry Monday.
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
There is no mention of draining the grease before adding the gravy mixture. Does it need to be drained?
Yes drain the grease 🙂
Thank you for the Salisbury recipe. It was so yummy!
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!
Nice and simple. Thank you.
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.
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.
I made this tonight and it turned out great! I did have to kick the gravy up on high to start; something to do with the oil in the pan I think. But, good recipe! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you for this recipe! I made it tonight and all 3 of my boys LOVED it! It’s rare to find something they all like that is easy to fix.
I made this last night and we DEVOURED IT. ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS AND easy. Adding this to the weekly menu! Kept recipe as is….yum!
Walked right into ‘snarky’ comment – glad to know it was’t because of me!
I’m a solo older gal who mostly eats out – but there are those taste buds getting in the way.
My diet is supposed to be based on good ole gout – and it’s not easy to do, whether out or in.
I love gravy and sauces, meat, and shellfish. No-No foods.
Arthritis doctor said I could eat everything – ‘just in moderation’ – and I’m hoping to try this salisbury steak.
Wondered how adding an egg to the beef would hold up if I grill it? Can it be grilled? Suppose some trial and error are in the foreseen future for me, ’cause I can’t wait to make this!
I Lou, I think the egg will be o.k. in the meat. Many years ago I would broil what were like small meatloaves (6 to a pound of ground beef) and added one egg into the mix which has some small broken bits of bread in it, onion and green pepper, and and of course seasonings. The egg provided a bit of moisture, and the whole thing was delicious.
I don’t see ‘egg’ listed in the Salisbury Steak recipe.
My mom did do egg in meatloaf and also in mashed potatoes!
I still like mashed with the egg – makes a nice color, aside from adding more protein.
When making meatloaf, I also add an egg.
I made the Simple Salisbury Steak for dinner last night. It was so moist and delicious. My family loved it! This recipe will definitely be part of my meal rotation.
I love Salisbury steak- what a perfect weeknight recipe!
Made this for dinner last night and it was a hit. Both my husband and 2 year old daughter loved it! Will be making this again in the future.
Thanks so much for joining us at Delicious Dishes! We love your Simple Salisbury Steak recipe and hope you’ll join us again this week!
Could I use oats in place of bread crumbs?
I always use raw oats instead of breadcrumbs. Healthy way of stretching your meat further and making it more filling. As it cooks it absorbs the flavour of the hamburger and has a similar consistency to ground beef.
Hi, I made this tonight for dinner and my entire family devoured it (even my picky 8 and 5 year olds)! I did sub in ground turkey for the beef as my husband is watching his cholesterol and it was delicious. I really needed new weeknight recipes and this one will be made a lot…thank you so much for the recipe!!
This sounds very much like a recipe I used to make years back when I had time and energy to cook from scratch for the family. The kids are long gone now, we have been married for 40 years, and I am disabled now and unable to spend much energy or time in the kitchen cooking meals for the two of us. I do a lot of slow cooker stuff though, and wanted to mention that there is a great “Happy Medium” between all the work of making homemade mashed potatoes and the “boxy” flavor of instant. Ore Ida (I think) makes wonderful frozen mashed potatoes!
There’s nothing in the bright red, microwavable bag but pure, simple potatoes, already peeled, cleaned of “spots” and cut up in small chunks. I pop the whole thing in the microwave, back of the bag up, for 10 minutes, while I’m tending to other parts of the meal, and when done, cut the bag open and dump the contents into the mixing bowl of my “baby Hobart” KitchenAid stand mixer with the paddle on it.
I cook with real food. So real chunks of salted butter are in the bottom of the bowl when I dump the potatoes in on them (you can use whatever you normally do, but if you’re going to the trouble from the beginning, you might as well make them good!) and they start melting, while I heat up a half cup of milk in the microwave (if yours has a “Beveridge” warming key on it, that’s perfect) to add to the potatoes while mixing them with the butter, salt and pepper. Hot milk seems to keep the potatoes from getting gooey like they sometimes do when you add in cold milk, and keeps the potatoes from cooling off too! While the mixer is tending to the potatoes, running on about “2” or “3” then I can be finishing up whatever else I was doing, like finishing up cooking the entrée and veggies, making a salad, or checking on a few biscuits in the oven!
Also coming frozen in a bag, so I can only make 3 or 4 biscuits at a time if I wish. They always come out wonderful, no mess and no work! Just take them out of the bag frozen, put into a small cake pan and baked! Few to no leftovers to get “spotty” waiting for someone to come back and finish them, you can always have fresh.
I have had to learn to make a lot of adjustments and concessions since I have become disabled, and my cooking has been a big one. Veggies in a microwaveable bag is another one! Now this recipe I could mix up in the mixer, with the dough hook, since a bad right shoulder won’t let me do it by hand, like I used to. If you still do, set the bowl down in the sink when you do. It gives you a more ergonomic “angle of attack” to do the mixing, and anything that spills out over the side of the bowl in the way of liquids or dry ingredients can be washed right down the garbage disposal. Or, it you put a dish towel under the bowl to keep it from sliding around you can gather up everything dry that spills over (if any) and shake it out over the trash can.
Thanks for the great reminder of simple heartwarming comfort food! Bon appetit!
I drained the grease before adding the gravy, it turned out much better! Also, I didn’t think about adding an egg to the mixture, but I did however add a tad more breadcrumbs because the raw meat mixture was a little wet. I also added a tsp of original Mrs dash seasoning, used garlic and herb bread crumbs, and used one regular brown gravy mix and one reduced sodium gravy mix to cut back on the salt, and was still plenty salty! And I heated the pan to a higher heat initially to sear the patties so they would hold together better, and they held together just fine 🙂 thanks a bunch! Def a keeper!
I’ve not tried this recipe yet, but I intend to try it very soon. I was just thinking this might be really good served on a bed of rice as well as mashed potato. I’ll probably make a bit of each as some members of my family would rather have mash potatoes, but I love rice and this just sounds like a great pairing.
I am currently making this recipe but am substituting a few things. I use a package of stove top chicken flavored stuffing mix instead of bread crumbs. I also use 1 cup barbecue sauce in this besides mustard. And I add 2 tsp of poultry seasoning. Serve with homemade mashed potatoes and green beans. 🙂 🙂 I also add in an egg sometimes 2 depending on how much meat I use. Today I will probably use 2.
OMG! I made this last night for my family and it was soooooooo GOOD! my husband is the pickiest eater and usually refuses to try new things, I’ve been on a Pinterest kick as of late and told him to pick out something he’d be willing to try and he selected this recipe. I made it just
Like the recipe calls for except I doubled the recipe, added 2 eggs and added mushrooms and onions to the frying pan right before I put the gravy in. My husband and 10 year old son devoured their dinner in record time and were so full afterwards it made me smile! Thank you so much for sharing! This will definitely make an appearance on my dinner table again in the near future! And it was quick to make too!
My son and his wife are working hard & going to school PLUS they have a baby. I’m going to make this for their Monday night dinner with enough for two nights. Leave it as a tasty dinner surprise at their house. Thanks for this wonderful recipe.
Delicious! The patties were perfect. Only change was using 1 pkg of brown gravy and 1 pkg of onion gravy mix. My husband said it was perfect, like The Grand Luxembourg in Chicago.
This was so easy and so delicious! My hubby had all three burgers!!
I’m making this right now and it smells so good. Thanks for the recipe!
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.
Great recipient! Sometimes I make this into a meatloaf, saves a little time. Also, freezes well!!