Cooking hamburger steaks can be a fast and simple way to serve your family a tasty meal. However, it’s not always easy to cook them perfectly.
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Amish Country Poor Man’s Hamburger Steaks
Sometimes they can overcook and become dry, or be undercooked and too pink on the inside.
Cooking hamburger steaks in the oven takes care of that problem. They always come out perfectly cooked.
This recipe is also a great alternative to the usual bread and patty hamburger. It is also called “poor man’s steak”, although it lacks nothing in the flavor department.
Making hamburger steaks with cream of mushroom soup gives them a delicious and earthy flavor that everyone will love.
How To Make Hamburger Steaks And Gravy In The Oven?
- preheat oven to 350F
- Make the gravy and set it aside. In a medium-sized bowl, combine cream of mushroom soup, milk, and parsley until well blended.
- To make the hamburgers, combine ground beef, crushed saltines, milk, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne, and salt and pepper to taste
- Using your hands, or a fork, mix all ingredients together, divide into 6-8 portions and make patties
- Dredge each patty in flour to coat all sides lightly.
- In a cast-iron skillet that has been lightly oiled, brown patties on both sides. This will add tons of flavor
- Once patties are browned, pour prepared gravy on top of them
- Cover skillet with aluminum foil and bake for 35 minutes
What To Put In Hamburger Steaks?
If you want to up the flavor of your hamburgers a notch, you can add chopped jalapeno peppers, chopped tomatoes, onions, or even bell peppers to the meat mixture.
I would even use a bit of Parmesan cheese on top and let it melt for a bit in the oven.
How to cook hamburger steak in the oven?
If you don’t have a cast-iron skillet, you can brown your hamburger patties in a nonstick skillet, transfer them to a casserole or baking dish, pour your gravy on top, cover the dish with foil and bake the same amount of time.
I just find that doing it all in the cast iron skillet not only saves me time but gives me fewer dishes to wash.
What sides go with hamburger steaks?
I like to serve my steaks with a side of rice, so I can mix it with all the delicious gravy.
I also like to serve it with steamed veggies to make a complete and full meal. You could also do it with a side salad and some butter pan-fried potatoes.
Baking tips:
- Shape your patties all the same size to ensure they cook properly and not have some overcooked and other undercooked.
- I like to take the foil off for the last 5 minutes of cooking to let the gravy thicken a bit more and caramelize on top of the patties.
- Be sure to crush your saltines well as not to have big chunks inside the patties
- Do not forget to add salt and pepper to the meat mixture. The meat needs a healthy amount of salt to be flavorful.
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Oven Baked Poor Man’s Hamburger Steaks
Cooking hamburger steaks can be a fast and simple way to serve your family a tasty meal.
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Course: Dinner
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes minutes
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 2 lbs ground beef
- 1 ½ cups saltine crackers, crushed
- 1 cup whole milk
- ½ tsp Italian seasoning
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp onion powder
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- All-purpose flour for dredging
- Salt and pepper to taste
Gravy:
- 2 (10.75 oz.) cans condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1 ½ cups whole milk
- 1 ½ tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
Instructions
preheat oven to 350F
Make the gravy and set it aside. In a medium-sized bowl, combine cream of mushroom soup, milk, and parsley until well blended.
To make the hamburgers, combine ground beef, crushed saltines, milk, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne, and salt and pepper to taste
Using your hands, or a fork, mix all ingredients together, divide into 6-8 portions and make pattie
Dredge each patty in flour to coat all sides lightly.
In a cast-iron skillet that has been lightly oiled, brown patties on both sides. This will add tons of flavor
Once patties are browned, pour prepared gravy on top of them
Cover skillet with aluminum foil and bake for 35 minutes
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Steph
Delicious!! I did a little bit of a skip and used a brown gravy packet+ A little extra water to compensate, and it was GLORIOUS let me tell youReply
- Heather
My hubby wanted this for breakfast the next morning, it was that good! I did add a little Monterey Steak seasoning to the ground meat as we love it’s flavor. The only change I would make is add some beef broth to the gravy – just so there is more of it for the mashed potatoes! I made this in a Dutch oven and wished it had made more gravy – a lot of the prepped gravy had cooked down. Otherwise, this recipe is going in my recipe file!Reply
- 100krecipes
So glad you were able to customize it to your liking!
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- Heather
My hubby wanted this for breakfast the next morning, it was that good! I did add a little Monterey Steak seasoning to the ground meat as we love it’s flavor. The only change I would make is add some beef broth to the gravy – just so there is more of it for the mashed potatoes! I made this in a Dutch oven and wished it had made more gravy. Otherwise, this recipe is going in my recipe file!Reply
- 100krecipes
Thanks for the suggestions. So glad you decided to try it again and customize it to your liking. 🙂
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- Karen
A wonderful recipe that served me well several times so far. It’s the recipe I have looked for a long time. My mom called it scalloped hamburgers, so I spent forever trying to find the recipe! Thanks for this!Reply
- 100krecipes
Oh my goodness you are so kind. Thank you for coming back to leave a review!
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