Oven Baked Hamburger Steak without Gravy – Easy Recipe
This oven baked hamburger steak without gravy comes together in minutes with pantry staples and a ketchup-barbecue topping. No gravy, no fuss — just a quick weeknight dinner the whole family will love.
When I was a newlywed and just getting used to the idea of cooking daily dinners, I spent hours pouring over recipes.
I had inherited my Grandma’s original recipe file and had so much fun going through it.
I found in the neatly organized “meats” tab a recipe from my Aunt Violet – Baked Hamburgers.
It’s a quick “cheater meal” recipe that just takes a few minutes to put together – and tastes delicious, too!
Ingredients for hamburger steak in oven:
This cheater-meal recipe comes together with just a handful of pantry staples. (Exact measurements are in the printable recipe card below.)
- Ground beef
- Oatmeal
- Milk
- Onion soup mix
- Salt and pepper
- Ketchup
- Barbecue sauce of your choice
Quick & Easy Oven Baked Hamburger Steak
This quick and easy oven baked hamburger steak recipe with barbecue sauce topping is a great weeknight dinner idea.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds ground beef
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 1 cup milk
- 1 package onion soup mix
- salt and pepper
- Ketchup
- Barbecue sauce of your choice
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix together ground beef, oatmeal, onion soup mix, milk, salt & pepper.
- Roll a generous handful of ground beef mixture into your hand and form into a patty shape.
- Squirt ketchup and barbecue sauce onto each patty.
- Bake at 350 degrees, uncovered for 30-45 minutes, or until the beef is no longer pink in the center.
Step by Step instructions for Hamburger Steak without Gravy
- Start by mixing the ground beef, oatmeal, onion soup mix, milk, salt, and pepper together in a large bowl — a spoon works to start, but you’ll get the best blend using clean hands. Roll a generous handful into a patty, and here’s a little trick I picked up from watching Rachel Ray: press a small dip into the center of each one, since they’ll puff up as they bake.
- Squirt ketchup and barbecue sauce generously over each patty — this is the step that replaces homemade gravy entirely, giving you all the flavor without any of the extra work. Bake at 350 degrees, uncovered, for 30-45 minutes, until the beef is no longer pink in the center. That’s it — dinner’s basically done itself!
How to freeze Hamburger Steak to use later:
Since it is only the 2 of us eating dinner these days, I froze the extra hamburger steaks to use at a later date. (I love bulk cooking and freezer meals!)
This is how to turn this hamburger steak recipe into a freeze ahead meal:
- Following the directions in the recipe card, form the burgers and place them on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Then, place them uncovered in the freezer.
2. After about 2 hours, remove them and package them in a large Zip-loc freezer bag. That way, they are frozen individually and don’t stick together. You can also remove just the amount of burgers I want to cook for each meal.
To cook baked hamburger steaks from frozen:
Cooking food from frozen can be done 2 ways:
- Thaw it out fully first. If you think about this method in time, it’s great! Just remove the hamburger steaks from the freezer and place in the fridge until thawed. Then bake as if they were freshly made.
- Bake from frozen (the method I usually use). Place the frozen hamburger steaks on baking dish and add ketchup and bbq sauce. Cover with foil and place in oven as it is heating to 350 degrees. Bake 30 minutes with foil on. Remove foil and bake 30 minutes more. Watch them as they are baking, as baking times may differ based on the size of the hamburger steak patties.
What do you serve with baked hamburger steak?
We like to have ours with a green salad and baked sweet potatoes. They are also yummy with mashed potatoes, smashed potatoes, potato salad, or tator tots.
To make hamburger steak without the oatmeal showing:
If seeing the oatmeal in the burger bothers you, you can alternately do the following:
Place the oatmeal, onion soup mix, and milk in the blender. Blend until smooth. Then add blended mixture to the ground beef and mix well.
Other popular dinner recipes with hamburger meat
- This quick meatloaf recipe is super popular!
- Bacon wrapped mini meatloaves are perfect for weeknight dinners or for guests, too.
- This easy tater tot recipe hamburger casserole was one of my kids’ favorite meals.
- This best crock pot taco soup is wonderful on chilly days.
- Hamburger casserole with biscuits uses canned biscuits, making it a quick and easy dinner idea.
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This is how my mother always made her meatballs and meatloaf, except for the milk and she often added an egg. I make mine the same way, but I will add a little water in the soup package – it rinses it out a bit and I don’t have to get out an measuring cup. I found if I use quick oatmeal instead of the old-fashioned, the pieces are smaller and don’t show up as much. I also mix it up in my Kitchen-aid – it saves my hands from freezing and the pieces seem to be mixed up better. I’ve made meatballs with this recipe and my coworkers loved them!!
I grew up making hamburgers & hamburger steak with oatmeal and had never thought it was an issue. Then I got married and saw how my mother-in-law makes hamburgers. She uses crushed soda crackers instead. I have started doing that and now my kids have a strong opinion about oatmeal in hamburgers. 😀