Cooking Steak In A Skillet

Garlic Butter Steak - juicy and tender steak cooked in a cast-iron skillet. Topped with compound garlic butter, this skillet steak recipe is so easy and delicious!

Garlic Butter Steak - juicy and tender steak cooked in a cast-iron skillet. Topped with compound garlic butter, this skillet steak recipe is so easy and delicious!

Steak cooked in a cast-iron skillet, topped with compound garlic butter.

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.

Close up photo of garlic butter steak in a skillet.

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.

Cooking a steak in a cast-iron skillet.

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

Skillet keto garlic butter steak.

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.

Medium rare top sirloin steak cooked in a skillet and served with 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!

How Many Calories Per Serving?

This recipe is only 248 calories per serving.

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Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

2 12 oz. (340 g) top sirloin steaks, about 1 1/2-inch thick steak
coarse salt
ground black pepper
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Garlic Butter

2 tablespoons salted butter, softened
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Nutrition Information

Serving Size

4 people
Amount Per Serving Calories 248 Total Fat 9g Saturated Fat 5g Cholesterol 100mg Sodium 96mg Carbohydrates 0g Sugar 0g Protein 38g