Isn’t it really Salisbury Steak?
Meat and taters, please
Now, my father-in-law is a different story. He’s a simple kind of guy and he just adores this meal and he loves meatloaf. He can’t get enough. He’s the rare man that will actually order meatloaf at a restaurant. He’s also the kinda guy you just love to feed because you never have to ask if he’s enjoying a meal since he is always generous with his compliments. I remember when my in-laws, Chris and Gene (my father-in-law is Big Gene and my husband is referred to as Little Gene, even though he ain’t anywhere near little anymore), came to visit us when we were living in England. They had never come to visit us in our own place before. My husband and I had only been married a year and this was our first place together. And overseas of all places! I decided I would make us lasagna for dinner on their first night there. I had no idea my in-laws did not care for lasagna. Who doesn’t like lasagna?
Apparently Chris and Big Gene. Well, God bless them, they ate their slices of lasagna and never said a word. Afterwards, my father-in-law said that the lasagna was really good and he was surprised. That’s when Chris and Gene told me they had never enjoyed lasagna before. If looks could kill, my husband would have died a thousand deaths that day. How come he never told me they didn’t eat lasagna? Apparently he didn’t know this little fact about his parents. Ugh. Well, they were converted after that. My father-in-law still asks for it to this day. And he never complains if I decide to make meatloaf or hamburger steaks for supper. In fact, he gets very happy. He just loves the stuff! You can customize these anyway you prefer. I like green peppers and onions in mine but Little Gene {giggles} likes his without.
Ingredients:
For the patties:
1 pound ground beef
1/3 cup crushed crackers (or bread crumbs)
1 egg
½ green pepper, diced
½ small yellow onion, diced
1 tsp. Worcestershire Sauce
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp. ground black pepper
It will take a minute or two of whisking to get most of the lumps out.
Add patties back to pan.
Spoon a bit of the gravy over the tops of the patties.
Let cook for another 10 minutes or so until cooked all the way through.
Enjoy!
- For the patties:
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1/3 cup crushed crackers or bread crumbs
- 1 egg
- ½ green pepper diced
- ½ small yellow onion diced
- 1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
- For the gravy:
- 1 packet brown gravy
- 1 can French onion soup
- 1 can cream of chicken soup or cream of mushroom
- ¼ cup water
- In a bowl, combine ingredients for patties.
- It’s best to just get in there with your hands to make sure it is combined together well.
- Heat sauté pan (or cast iron skillet) on medium-high heat.
- Begin forming hamburger steaks into an oval shape (this recipe makes 4).
- If you aren’t using a nonstick skillet, you may want to spray pan with nonstick spray.
- Place patties onto preheated pan.
- Brown both sides. You aren’t going to cook them all the way through.
- Cook about 3-4 minutes on each side.
- Take browned patties out of pan and set aside.
- Add all the gravy ingredients to the pan and whisk together well to remove most of the lumps.
- It will take a minute or two of whisking.
- Add patties back to pan.
- Cover and turn heat down to a lower setting.
- Let cook for another 10 minutes or so until no longer pink in the middle.
I've loved this since I was a little girl! In the 60's, my grade school served this for lunch. This was back in the day when school lunches were actually homemade food. It was always served with mashed potatoes, peas and a roll. I still eat it like this today.
Big Gene sounds like my father. Ground meat is his favorite thing. If there is meatloaf on a menu, he is ordering it! He and my mom have gone on over 30 cruises. With all the wonderful, fancy food cruises serve, my dad will always ask for them to just bring him a hamburger. LOL
What other soup I can use other than the French onion
I would like to make this tomorrow because it looks delicious and I am dying to try this
I just use beef broth. And add lots of onions
I use cream of mushroom.
This looks so yummy. A favorite meal at our house. Your version just looks perfect! Come over and visit us today. We have a Southern specality.
Hamburger Steaks, salisbury steaks, meatloaf are just a few of my very favorite things, Brandie! Yours looks absolutely delicious, as usual. BTW…your cherry limeade was a HUGE hit in the house. I had to restock for another batch. It didn't last long. Thank you! 🙂
These look so delicious. I know my guy would love this since he is a meatloaf fan. I need to give this a try since he has had a craving for gravy of all thing. Haha! Yummy!
I was looking to find easy recipe for this..my hubby love it when we eat out and I wanted to surprise him:))
Thank you so much for sharing this.. will try it for sure!
Hamburger Steaks were a favorite of mine when I was younger! I place I worked at made the best ones and I loved them! I'll have to use this recipe and try and make my own! 🙂
This looks so good. I am definitely going to have to try this one of these days!! I haven't tried something like this before. I think it will be a hit!!
Oh this brings back memories! I had it growing up. Mom always made mac and cheese with it. Yum!
Your version looks really good – this is one of my hubby's favorite meals and the first one he learned to cook for himself in college. He likes to slop sauteed onions all over his – so good. And he serves them with mashed, AND pork and beans. A weird combo, but he loves it.
Oh this looks sooo good!! I am excited about making this:) Love the post too!!
This looks so good…..unfortunately my Dad and husband also have a thing for ground beef. Not me…I'm excited to try and make this. Thanks for sharing.
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This looks so good…..unfortunately my Dad and husband also have a thing for ground beef. Not me…I'm excited to try and make this. Thanks for sharing.
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Oh this looks so down home good and comforting!
What a great recipe! thanks for sharing this – my family will love it!
Mary
Great story! We used to have these as a kid, but we didn't get a sauce to put on them. Not sure why, I know my dad isn't much into sauce, maybe that is why. I remember eating it with ketchup 🙂 This looks MUCH better!
What a delicious, comforting dinner recipe. I love hamburger steaks and gravy, and I like that you used some french onion soup to give it more flavor.
If you’d like, I wanted to invite you to share your best recipes over at my new party, Recipe Sharing Monday at Jam Hands. I’m going to be featuring my favorite submissions during the week and I’d love it if you’d join in the fun. :O)
Great recipe. Will try this. Thanks for sharing.
This looks really yummy and would go over BIG in our house!
Love the stories about your family, they always bring a smile! But who doesn't like lasagna? It's one of those things you make when you don;t know what to make because it's just assumed everybody likes it. Little Gene could have been more forthcoming, but it sounds like you made some converts.. must be good lasagna. And Good hamburger steaks. Adam considers gravy the most essential part of any meal, so he's going to be very happy with this!
Brandie, I just LOVE stopping by here! I remember Salisbury Steak…Mom never made it, but she sure served it up in a TV dinner. Remember those? Probably wouldn't surprise you that my favorite part was the little square section of brownie. Shame on Lil' Gene for not disclosing that lasagna fact, but you charmed the inlaws over. Way to go!
Yummmmy! I had this last night and it was super tasty. I didn't change a thing and I don't plan on it.
Oh yum! I have not had this in years! This is one of the things my Dad would make when I still lived at home.
My husband would LOVE this dish! Brandie another great dish that I can't wait to try!
These sound great. Totally reminds me of a meal my Dad would eat. Too funny about the 'Big Gene' and 'Little Gene' My Dad is 'Big Brad' and my step-brother is 'Little Brad' We've been calling them both those names for 20 years : )
So simple, and so yummy! Thanks so much for sharing at Church Supper!
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I can't wait to try this. We have a freezer full of ground beef and this is my next new recipe to try. It sounds yummy!
These look so GOOD! I'll be trying them! Thanks for sharing…
Amy
Hello, I am a new visitor on Country Cook and must say I love it. I fixed the Hamburger steak with Brown Gravy and it was wonderful. My husband said that it was great and that he could make a pig of himself on it.. I took a plate of it with boiled potato's and boiled squash to my next door neighbor for her supper and she said that it was really good. Love your site.
Hi Yvonne! Thank yo so much for taking the time come back here & let me know that you enjoyed this recipe. It really makes my day to hear that! I hope you'll find lots more recipe that you and your family will love!
This is a very delicious entree. I love the gravy on the served patties. This makes a nice dinner meal.
Hi Brandie, I am new to your blog and I love it! Just really good down-to-earth recipes. I have spent so much time just reading recipes I don't know what I want to make first. I know this is a big time commitment on your part so thanks so much for sharing.
I just made this and doubled the recipe for company. The patties fell apart. I made mashed potatoes to go with it and it did taste great over them, but I really wanted steak patties. Oh well. I do love it! I just wondered if there is something different you need to do to double the recipe?
I doubled mine , came good, gravy got to thick. needed more water.
I like to serve the patties on top of buttered egg noodles, and then pour some gravy over top of the patty. It's a budget meal that my family likes.
OMG that would be delicious and even cheaper because you wouldn't have to worry about sides! Great thinking!
I absolutely love your site. I stumbled across it through Pinterest and haven't stopped looking at your recipes
You are a Country Cook for sure! I have cooked for more than 55 years and am considered a good cook. However, I have just printed out at least 10 of your recipes! I'm anxious to try them on Hubby who loves good food. Thank you, thank you!
I do this with frozen turkey burgers and a packet of brown gravy mix. I call it Faux Salisbury Steak.
I actually use a pkg of chicken stove top stuffing instead of breadcrumbs and about a half cup of BBQ sauce too! MMMMMM GOOD! whip up some mashed potatoes and everyone loves it:)
Made this tonight….it was great….a big hit with my family..
Thank you for making the recipes so easy to follow….
Made this last night and it was delish!! I added mushrooms because I can eat mushrooms with anything. Made buttered potatoes with onions and corn. Hubby and I both loved it. Thanks for the great recipe.
I made the patties ahead of time and let them sit in the fridge for a bit so they would stay firm. I let them simmer in the gravy for about an hour on low heat. I had no problems with them falling apart. Will definately make again!
This was SOOO GOOD!! Thank you . I used turkey ground meat instead of hamburger meat. YUM YUM! My husband wanted a 3rd plate but was too full to do so ! Thank you for this !
Probably a stupid question but do I leave the grease from the patties when I make the gravy or do I drain it first?
Not a stupid question. Too much grease for me. I would suggest using the leanest of meat otherwise drain some of the excess off.
This was so easy and amazing!! My husband was very concerned about putting the cream of chicken and french onion soup in the gravy, but he loved it too! I always have these ingredients, except the french onion soup, on hand– so the actual patties and gravy only cost us $1 beyond our pantry items. We made this with corn homemade mashed potatoes, and dinner rolls! Delish!
My Mom would make a version of this using a package of Lipton Onion soup mixed in with the ground meat, boy was that good! Yum
I just picked up a two pound pack called "market style ground beef" and it is so lean I wanted to do something special with it. For grilling burgers the fatter the better but the really lean stuff is great for the other uses. This stuff was $3.49 a pound which was cheaper then their pale looking hamburger and $2.00 a pound cheaper than ground chuck and looked better!
I was torn between hamburger steaks and gravy and Stroganoff "helper" so I decided to do both!
I liked your onions and peppers inside the steaks and since I had some cut up Vidalia onion and three of the small red and yellow "sweet peppers" (they still seem bitter to me) I decided to follow your directions with few changes to use what I had on hand.
My biggest decision now is quantity to make with a pound, fist was two biggies, then four, I have just decided three will be perfect!
Thanks the idea!
Paul
I made this a few weeks ago and it was fantastic! Exactly how I was hoping it would taste, just like the simply southern meals from my hometown!
I’ve been making this recipe ever since you posted it. I wouldn’t change a thing – it’s perfect!! I love all of your recipes!
I used to love those salisbury steak TV dinners when I was a kid.
They took a while a heat up in the oven (microwave uvens were decades away). My sister and I would munch away on them in front of that big black and white TV set. 🙂
Guess I am dating myself…
This recipe is a staple in my house. I never made it before I saw it on this site, but my husband absolutely LOVES it! It's his favorite meal!
Everyone loved them except for my son in law that said it was too much onion and especially bellpepper but he did clean his plate. 😉 I added a pkg of Au jus gravy to the gravy and minced garlic to the meat patties (venison).
The venison is extremely lean so I add extra worchestire sauce to help them hold together and only turned them once. I also put everything in a dutch oven and simmered for about an hour. It was very delicious. Thanks for sharing. KW
I have been fixing these a couple of time a month since I found this recipe on your site on Facebook. There is only me and the Hubby so I can make 2 meals out of them along with mashed potatoes and a veggie. I was looking for a new way to cook hamburger and this is a great way!
So glad you and your husband are enjoying it. This is one of our favorites.
I made this again last night but with my usual ability to mess things up, I inadvertently grabbed a can of cream of onion soup. Well I had it open before I realized my mistake and used it anyway. The gravy wonderful. I like it even better than with the cream of chicken. I’ll be making this same “mistake” again soon. Thanks for a wonderful recipe that has found a home in my meal rotation.
I love happy accidents! Well done! I’ll have to try it that way next time 🙂
❤❤❤ Great recipe!!! Very accurate. I used ground turkey & it was still awesome! Thanks for sharing.
I have made this numerous times and the grandchildren love it! Only need to call them to dinner table once and they come running
Was thinking of making hamburger/Salisbury steak today and this recipe popped up on facebook! Gonna try your recipe today! Your recipes are always great and take common ingredients. Thanks & keep up the good work!!
What other soup can you use beside Cream of chicken? I’m not a big fan of it. Other than that it sounds delish.
Hi Linda – is there one that you do enjoy? Cream of mushroom or cream of onion would both work I would think. 🙂
Hi Brandie! I’m a huge fan of your site and send people to it all the time. I would love to make this – so simple. However, my family has an aversion to peppers of any color. I can get away with the onions if cut up small but peppers are a no go. What can I substitute or can I just leave them out?
Hey Chris! You can use leave them out. I’m the only one who likes peppers in my family too so I totally relate! And thank you for the sweet comment – it sure made my day!
OMG! Just made this after church and the famy loved it..so easy and so good, 5 stars
What Can I replace the French onion soup with?
I made this last night and I really liked it except it tasted very salty and i did not add ANY salt. What can I do to cut down on the salty taste?
I don’t usually do reviews but this recipe was excellent!!! My husband loved it! I doubled the recipe and left out the green peppers (which we don’t like). Served it with mashed potatoes and green beans! Delicious!
Good question…maybe beef cosume. I think switching out the onion soup really would change the recipe and the delicious end result.
YUM! Super easy super tasty! My husband isn’t a big meat loaf type hamburger fan. he curled his nose up when I told him what I was making and when I placed it in front of them he thought it looked pretty good. He tasted it and then said “wow this is really good!” It’s a great budget stretcher and very tasty to would highly recommend!