This Hamburger Steak Recipe with No Gravy is an all-time favorite. Ready in minutes, this is a perfect weeknight meal the whole family will love.
When fall rolls back around, all I can think of is comfort food. These easy weeknight meals fill our house with delicious aromas and we use items we keep stocked in our home, like hamburger steak.
Ground Beef Dinners Save Time
If you look in our fridge or freezer at any given time, you’ll find ground beef. We use it for our weekly spaghetti nights, my homemade hamburger helper recipe, or my husband’s personal favorite, hamburger steak.
Hamburger Steak Without Gravy – Easiest Dinner
This is a very easy recipe. I mean, I have no idea why I’m even posting it, since it’s so simple. But, I went through the trouble of taking lovely pictures of this quaint little meal, so why not share it with you?
The ingredients. They seem so simple, don’t they? Well, they are. I’ve figured out that this particular cast of characters provide a great boost to plain ground beef.
The cayenne plays off of the Worcestershire, and the seasoned salt does something that regular table or kosher salt couldn’t do. These are magical ingredients that put this hamburger steak recipe in a league of its own.
After you combine the ground beef with the dream team ingredients, place them in a cast iron skillet on medium heat. Just brown them on each side, then place on a plate. You’ll add them back to the skillet a bit later.
Look at that skillet. This would be a perfect place to put some sliced onions and peppers. So, that’s just what we’ll do.
Don’t be fooled by the smoke coming from my vegetables. It’s actually steam. When we find onions and peppers on sale or clearance at our grocery store, I buy them up, slice them, then freeze them.
This bunch was frozen in a quart size bag a few weeks before. It turns out to be way cheaper than those peppers and onions frozen vegetable bags in the freezer section.
After the vegetables cook for a bit, and the onions are almost translucent, place each hamburger steak within the vegetables and cover.
The steam from the veggies will help to cook the steaks to medium well or well done. We’re a medium-well family, but the best part of this recipe is that however you like your steaks, they will still taste heavenly.
Hamburger Steak Recipe No Gravy
Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients
1 pound ground beef (80 to 85% lean)
1 small onion, sliced
2 green, red and/or yellow peppers, sliced
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon seasoned salt, divided
1 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Instructions
In a medium bowl, mix together ground beef, Worcestershire sauce, 1/2 tablespoon seasoned salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. The best way to incorporate the seasonings is to use your hands.
Shape ground beef into 4 to 6 oval patties and set aside. Place a large cast iron skillet on medium heat. Once hot, place the patties in the pan and let them brown on each side for 3 to 5 minutes. Once seared, place on a plate and set aside.
Still, on medium heat, place sliced vegetables in the cast iron skillet. Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt over the vegetables and toss slightly. Continue to cook on medium heat until onions are translucent, tossing occasionally.
Once the vegetables are almost cooked, nestle each hamburger steak within the vegetables. Cover and turn the heat down to low. Let steaks cook for 7 to 10 minutes, or until medium well to well done.
Easy & Delicious – that’s my kind of meal! 🙂
Exactly, Preston! Sometimes the simple meals are the best ones 🙂
This looks delicious! Will add it to my list.
Please let us know how it works for you, Laila!
when I saw the title, Hamburger Steak, it brought back school lunch memories. Fun ones!
I saw this on Pinterest and it looks so good. I would rather have some gravy and potatoes though… #southerngirl
Ha! Well, those would work as well. It would be very easy to turn the peppers and onions into a gravy.
We had this tonight. Very good!!! I snuck shredded zucchini in the meat to stretch it and it was good and moist! Will definitely make this again and again! Thanks!
Brilliant!
I’m sure glad I came across your recipe. It was delicious. My husband raved about it. I served a salad and baked potato with it. Will be making it again and again. Thank you for the recipe.
Yay! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for trying the recipe.
Looks delicious I’m going to try and fix this one night this week.
Yay! I hope you love it!
i am making this tonight and i’m so excited !
looks mouthwatering !
thank you .
Babyboo
You’re so welcome!
This LOOKS PERFECT. A simple hamburger steak, and then I can add any of the extras that I would like. Thank you.
Tom
Austin, TX
I make this once a week…every week!
Thanks for sharing…it’s easy and yummy!
The recipe calls for 1 tablespoon of seasoned salt divided but in the directions it says to add 1/2 teaspoon to veggies should that be 1/2 tablespoon? Thanks– Making it for dinner looks so good!!
Yes! Thank you for catching that. I’ll update the post.
This was delicious! I’m making it again tonight! It’s a keeper.