Salisbury Steak

Do you ever feel like you need to get creative with hamburger? My family loved to mix hamburger with onions and potatoes served with plenty of ketchup on the side. In fact, it was my special recipe I shared with Big Guy when we first got married. I was proud of this recipe since I grew up in the age of Hamburger Helper.

I wanted to expand my recipe past this one and that great standby of meatloaf. Big Guy found a recipe in the New York Times for Salisbury Steak, so we were armed with a new recipe and the right ingredients in the house.

Big Guy took the reins of this cooking experience and noted it was a simple recipe. He mixed onion, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, an egg, and panko to the hamburger mixing it until all the ingredients were incorporated into the meat. He formed the mix into oval shaped patties, then put them in the freezer for 10 minutes to firm up. He opted to cook the steaks in the oven for about 45 minutes.

We had beef gravy in our pantry, so he opted to use the recipe for the steak and then change it up for the gravy. It was very delicious, and I was amazed at how “smooth” the ingredients made the meat. I know the next time we make the steaks we will make the “proper” gravy so we can have mushrooms dancing over our steak. Yummy!