Salisbury Steak

Name: Salisbury Steak
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 1 lb beef (ground, 85/15); ⅓ cup breadcrumbs; ¼ cup milk; 1 unit egg; 4 tsp Worcestershire sauce (divided); 1 tsp garlic powder; 1 ½ tsp salt (divided); ¾ tsp black pepper; 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 unit onion (thin slices); 8 oz mushrooms (cremini, sliced); 2 tbsp butter; 2 tbsp flour; 2 cup beef stock; 1 tsp mustard (Dijon)

Meat & Game · American

15 ingredients · 45 minutes · 2 servings

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1105kcal87.9g protein67.2g fat35.4g carbs~$6.67/ serving*

Contains gluten, dairy, egg, fish

Restrictions

Containsgluten · dairy · egg · fishIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Diets

No porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

1 lb	beef (ground, 85/15)
⅓ cup	breadcrumbs
¼ cup	milk
1 unit	egg
4 tsp	Worcestershire sauce (divided)
1 tsp	garlic powder
1 ½ tsp	salt (divided)
¾ tsp	black pepper
1 tbsp	vegetable oil
1 unit	onion (thin slices)
8 oz	mushrooms (cremini, sliced)
2 tbsp	butter
2 tbsp	flour
2 cup	beef stock
1 tsp	mustard (Dijon)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

2 lb	mashed potatoes (the catalog's — the destined bed)

Steps

Mix6 min
panade first, patties shaped like their name
breadcrumbs soaked in the milk, then beef + egg + 2 tsp Worcestershire + garlic powder + 1 tsp salt + pepper folded in gently — shaped into four OVAL patties a half-inch thick, because the steak shape is the dish's entire founding joke and the panade is the meatloaf-family tenderness it actually delivers on
Sear7 min
medium-high, 3 min a side, out at rare
hard color on both faces, pulled well before done — they finish in the gravy, and the fond they leave is the gravy's foundation; the sear is a deposit, not the cook
Saute8 min
onions then mushrooms in the same pan, butter added
onions until golden at the edges, mushrooms until their water is gone and they brown — the unsalted-mushroom rule from the Marsala entry applies for the same reason; this pan now holds three layers of browned flavor and zero of them are optional
Whisk3 min
flour over, then stock in a stream
- flour
- beef stock
flour dusted across the vegetables and stirred a minute, then beef stock streamed in with the remaining Worcestershire + Dijon + salt, scraping the floor clean — the pan-gravy method the catalog teaches, here in its natural habitat
Braise10 min
patties back in, gentle, spooned over, to 160°F
- mashed potatoes
the steaks returned with their juices to finish in the simmering gravy, spooned over as it thickens to coat — the brief braise is what the TV dinner was always imitating; over the catalog's mashed potatoes, this is the rehabilitation every source was quietly attempting, completed