Growing up, we always loved Mama’s Hamburger Steaks recipe with fried onions. There was nothing like coming home and smelling the onions bubbling in the pan with the generous hamburger steak patties and knowing we were in for a hearty and delicious supper.

Simple and Affordable Recipe

This is a simple recipe and uses the family favorite: ground beef. You know, in the age where we have entire networks devoted to nothing but food, we have surprisingly few tv peeps using ground beef. This is all good and well, of course, but sometimes I think the food channels have greatly overestimated our grocery budgets :).

I try to bring you ground beef recipes every so often because I know how much I rely on it in budget friendly main courses

Ingredients you’ll need for your Hamburger Steaks recipe:

Ground beef (or chuck, or lean ground beef)
All purpose flour (but self rising will work just as well for this. Almond or coconut flour is an option too if you are gluten free. Almond flour is especially good if you are watching your carbs)
Beef broth (or water as a substitute)
A Sweet onion (such as vidalia)

If you like, you can also season your ground beef with some seasoned salt or whatever else you’re in the mood for.

How to Make a Hamburger Steaks Recipe

Step by Step Instructions

Shape your hamburger patties into doughnut shapes.

Help your Hamburger Steaks cook evenly with this technique

I’m just making three but you can make however many you’ll need. The reason we shape them into doughnut shapes (which you don’t have to do, of course) is that it helps the meat to cook more evenly and as they cook and shrink up that hole gets filled up anyway.

Take your hamburger patties and dip each side in the flour. The flour asks as a binder but also gives a crispier version of the burger when done.
Add those patties to a skillet which is on medium heat.

NOTE: You may want to add a tablespoon or two of oil to the skillet and let it heat beforehand if you have a really low fat ground beef (such as lean ground beef or ground chuck) or if your nonstick skillet isn’t quite as nonstick as it used to be.

Let those brown a few minutes on each side.

Then add your sliced onions to the pan.

Cook those until they start getting a bit soft and brown on the edges.
At this point you can drain off and discard the grease if you like.

Now pour in your beef broth (or water).

I’m only using about a cup here.

Cover and let cook for another ten minutes or so, until your patties are cooked completely through and no longer pink in the center.

When your Hamburger Steaks are done they’ll look something like this picture above.

Now I like to scoop out my Hamburger Steaks and then get my onions out with a slotted spoon to serve.

Enjoy!