42 Steak Dinner Recipes That Everyone Will Love

updated Dec 6, 2023

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Garlic Butter Steak Bites

If you’re not already slotting steak into your meal plan once in a while, I’m here to encourage you to do just that, be it date night at home or a random Wednesday night. There’s no need to go out for steak when you can make a delicious steak dinner from the comfort of your own home. You can keep it light with a steak fajita salad, or switch things up and make a sirloin steak sandwich.

Whether you fire up the grill, cook it on a sheet pan under the broiler, or sear it in a skillet along with potatoes or a quick pan sauce, getting steak on the table during the week is a totally doable affair. In fact, it can seem intimidating, but a really good steak dinner is a lot faster and easier to cook up than you might think. Here are 42 steak recipes to make for dinner any night of the week — no special occasion required.

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Steak Recipes in a Pan

For cuts like hanger steak, flank steak, and steak tips, a quick sear in a screaming-hot pan on the stovetop is all you need to get dinner on the table.

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How To Cook Steak on the Stovetop

This simple three-step method will give you a perfectly cooked stovetop steak — cooked just the way you like it, every time.

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Pan-Seared Ribeye Steak

How to perfectly sear this flavorful cut in a skillet in less than 10 minutes.

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Garlic Butter Steak Bites

These steak bites are perfect for your steakhouse cravings.

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Warm Fajita Steak Salad

This fajita salad features cumin-rubbed flank steak along with charred peppers and onions over a bed of crunchy, chopped romaine and red cabbage.

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Easy Balsamic Glazed Steak Tips and Mushrooms

Steak tips are an inexpensive cut of beef perfect for soaking up marinades like this soy and balsamic one that’s salty and tangy at the same time. If you can't find them, flank steak makes a good substitute.

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Made with fermented black soybeans and colorful bell peppers, this pepper steak is hearty and filling — perfect for cold weather months.

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Steak with Drunken Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions & Roasted Blue Cheese Potatoes

While a good steak can certainly always stand on its own, sometimes it’s really the sauce that makes the meal. And that could not be more true than with this recipe.

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Easy Maple Bourbon-Glazed Steak Tips and Asparagus

Just a quick stint in this sweet and savory marinade infuses every bite of steak with flavor, and searing them in a hot skillet gives them a gorgeous golden-brown crust.

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Garlic Butter Steak and Potatoes

Crispy potatoes and tender steak are seared in a cast-iron skillet and finished with a garlic-herb butter.

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Pepper Steak Stir-Fry

This easy steak and pepper stir-fry is seared hot and fast, and tossed with a honey-soy glaze.

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20-Minute Steak Salad with Chile, Garlic, and Herbs

This easy steak salad gets an umami hit from fish sauce, sherry vinegar, and lime juice tossed through a mix of crunchy and tender veg, and is finished with fresh herbs.

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Hanger Steak with Dandelion, Arugula, and Grana Padano

A flavorful steak and bitter greens salad with a punchy, assertive dressing and properly charred, almost-too-rare steak.

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Italian Seared Beef

This 5-ingredient recipe from Jamie Oliver calls for pounding a sirloin steak extra-thin to keep cook time to the bare minimum.

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Steak with Melted Leeks

A crusty, seared steak is paired with meltingly tender leeks for an easy, satisfying dinner for two.

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What makes lomo saltado stand out? It has two carbs in one dish: crispy potato fries and steamed rice.

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Loaded Steak Quesadillas

When you're after a meal-worthy quesadilla that’s guaranteed to satisfy all the hungry eaters around the table, nothing beats a loaded steak quesadilla.

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Restaurant-Style Sizzling Steak Fajitas

This recipe teaches you how to make restaurant-style steak fajitas at home, from the flavor-packed marinade to the best cooking technique.

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Bistek (Beef Marinated with Calamansi, Soy and Onions)

Boneless rib marinated with citrus and soy and served with caramelized onions.

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Brown Sugar Bourbon Steak Bites

Seared steak bites glazed with sweet brown sugar and bourbon.

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Korean-Style Beef and Broccoli Bowl

Love the sweet and spicy flavors of Korean bulgolgi? This weeknight riff with flank steak is ready faster than takeout.

Grilled Steak Recipes

Whether you’re cooking up skewers, foil packs, or a marinated flank, it’s truly hard to beat a steak dinner from the grill.

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How to Grill Steak

If you’re intimidated by grilling steak, this is the recipe for you. It's an easy, foolproof method walks you through which type of steak to buy, how to prep it for the grill, and exactly what to look for once it hits the grates.

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Marinated Grilled Flank Steak

This is the flavor-packed marinade I whisk together every single time I toss a flank steak on the grill. Make it once and you'll barely need to glance at the recipe the next time around.

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A citrus and garlic marinade flavors this tender grilled steak. For the best results, choose a cut of steak with great beefy flavor that can absorb the marinade easily. Flank and steak and skirt steak are great options.

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Chopped Greek Salad with Grilled Steak

Grilled skirt steak turns a regular Greek salad into a hearty main dish that's full of crunchy veggies and feta cheese in a lemon-oregano vinaigrette.

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Grilled Steak Kebabs

Savory marinated steak cubes are grilled with zucchini ribbons and cherry tomatoes in this easy, colorful skewer.

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Steak Fajita Foil Packets

These steak fajita foil packets are fun, practical, and tasty, too. Everyone can customize their own add-ins, they require virtually zero cleanup, and the rice is extra flavorful thanks to all the juices from the meat and vegetables.

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Grilled Short Rib Chimichurri Party Sandwich

A whole loaf of bread is filled with tender grilled short ribs, chimichurri sauce, pickled red onions, and arugula before being sliced into individual sandwiches to feed a crowd.

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Korean Bulgogi-Style Grilled Steak

Use skirt steak or flank steak for this flavor-packed dinner from the grill.

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Grilled Steakhouse Kebabs with Garlic Butter

Juicy steak bites, tender red onion, and baby potatoes are grilled on skewers and brushed with garlic butter.

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Heirloom Tomato and Steak Caprese

Inspired by traditional caprese, this dinner salad is topped with marinaded grilled steak and a punchy basil vinaigrette.

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Mayo-Rubbed Grilled Steak Go to Recipe

Steak Recipes for the Oven

When you want a more hands-off cooking method, turn on the broiler and grab a baking sheet or your cast iron skillet to cook your steak in the oven.

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How To Cook Perfect Steak in the Oven

This is our foolproof, quick and easy method for making juicy steak with a crisp, peppery crust in the oven. It's easier than you think - trust me.

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Here’s our foolproof method for making a crusty-on-the-outside, fork-tender-on-the-inside steak that’s finished with a garlic butter to melt and pool around it all.

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Sirloin Steak Sandwiches

Broiled sirloin is sliced and layered on your favorite roll with a swipe of Dijonnaise, quick-pickled red onion strands, and peppery arugula.

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Skirt Steak with Chimichurri

Fire up the broiler for skirt steak that's ready in under 10 minutes. Save the leftover chimichurri for roasted vegetables, sandwiches, or grain bowls.

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Sheet Pan Steak Frites

This at-home version of the restaurant favorite is quick, easy, and keeps the dirty dishes to a minimum.

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Gorgonzola-Stuffed Steak Roll-Ups

These steak roll-ups feel fancy, but they’re quick and easy to slot into your meal plan any night of the week.

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Sheet Pan Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches

Sheet pan-sizzled steak, sliced onion, peppers, and mushrooms are topped with two cheeses and stuffed into soft sandwich rolls.

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How To Cook Flank Steak in the Oven

The best part about cooking flank steak under the broiler is that you get lots of those wonderful crispy bits around the edge without drying out or overcooking the steak.

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Chili-Rubbed Ribeye Steak with Maple-Bourbon Butter

This is the steak dinner to reserve for your next date night at home.

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Cajun-Style Steak and Vegetable Sheet Pan Supper Go to Recipe

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London Broil with Garlicky Herb Butter

This steak dish is prepared by marinating and then broiling flank or top round.

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