Skillet Garlic Butter Steak

Published Dec 11, 2018 Updated Oct 15, 2024

How To Cook Steak On A Skillet

Garlic Butter Steak is one of the easiest ways to cook steak on a skillet. In this recipe, I am going to teach you how to make perfect, juicy and steak restaurant quality steak at home, with only five ingredients.

How Do You Use Garlic Butter On Steak

Garlic and butter are two of the most amazing ingredients you can use on anything. I love them on everything. You can use it on steak, pork chops, shrimp, lobster tails, crab legs, to vegetables such as asparagus. Garlic butter is absolutely amazing on steak, as a compound butter. You don’t want to cook the steak with garlic and butter, as the intense heat on the skillet will turn butter to brown butter, and garlic to burned garlic. Garlic butter should be prepared ahead of time by combining butter with minced garlic, plus chopped parsley. After you cook the steak on the skillet, you just scoop the garlic butter on top of the steak. The heat on the steak will melt the butter and warm the garlic, releasing amazing flavors and nuance to the juicy steak. For more compound butter recipes, check out my garlic herb butter!

What Are The Best Cuts Of Steak

When it comes to steak, you want to have a nice slab of meat and premium cut. Here are the best cuts for steak.

Filet Mignon or Tenderloin Ribeye T-Bone Strip Top Sirloin

Pan Searing Techniques For The Best Steaks

For this Skillet Garlic Butter Steak recipe, I used Top Sirloin. Here are the tips and techniques for perfect skillet steak:

Season generously with coarse salt and ground black pepper. Use a cast-iron skillet – heat it up to smoking hot before pan-searing. This seals in the juice in the steak while creating a perfect sear on both sides of the steak. Timing is everything. Depending on the thickness of the steak, you want to cook for 3-4 minutes on each side for medium rare. Serve with a compound butter such as garlic herb butter.

There you have it, a quick and easy way to cook steak at home that rivals the best steak restaurants. Try this recipe and make it for dinner tonight!

What To Serve With Skillet Garlic Butter Steak

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