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Garlic Butter Brazilian Steak - the juiciest and most tender steak with a golden garlic butter sauce. Takes 15 minutes and dinner is ready!
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Brazilian Steak
If there are two things I love about Brazilian food, they are Brazilian steak and Brazilian cheese bread (Pao de Queijo).
There is something about Brazilian Steak; it’s meaty, tender, juicy, oozing with right amount of food, and perfectly grilled and charred. It’s so delicious!
15 Minutes Brazilian Steak
This golden Garlic Butter Brazilian Steak recipe is super easy, but yields Fogo de Chao restaurant-quality taste and texture. It calls for five simple ingredients: garlic, butter, parsley, salt and black pepper which you already have at home.
The sweetest thing about this simple recipe is that it takes only 15 minutes. How nice is that?
The flavors are so much more complex than the ingredients used. At first bite, I fell in love with it; it was as if I had the steak at famous Brazilian restaurants.
What Cut Of Meat For Brazilian Steak
You can make this recipe from various cuts of meat: skirt steak, flank steak or flap meat. Those are the tender parts of the beef.
Just follow my easy recipe and step-by-step methods below and you’ll have the most amazing steak that you can make at home. Bon appetit!
For the sides, go for something classic:
Garlic Butter Brazilian Steak Ingredients
- Garlic
- Salt
- Brazilian steak
- Ground black pepper
- Canola oil
- Unsalted butter
- Flat-leaf parsley
Please refer to the recipe card at the bottom of this post for full details on each ingredient.
How To Make Garlic Butter Brazilian Steak
Step 1. Peel the garlic cloves and smash them with the side of a chef’s knife. Sprinkle the garlic lightly with salt and mince it.
Step 2. Pat the steak dry and season generously on both sides with salt and pepper. In a heavy-duty 12-inch (30 cm) skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat until shimmering hot. Add the steak and brown well on both sides, about 2 to 3 minutes per side for medium rare. Transfer the steak to a plate and let it rest while you prepare the garlic butter.
Step 3. In an 8-inch (20 cm) skillet, melt the butter over low heat. Add the garlic and cook, swirling the pan frequently, until lightly golden, about 4 minutes. Lightly salt to taste.
Step 4. Slice the steak, if you like, and transfer it to 4 plates. Spoon the garlic butter over the steak, sprinkle with parsley, and serve.
Frequently Asked Questions
This recipe is only 429 calories per serving.
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Garlic Butter Brazilian Steak
Ingredients
- 6 medium cloves garlic
- kosher salt
- 1.5 lb (750g) skirt steak, trimmed and cut into 4 pieces
- freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons canola oil , or vegetable oil
- 2 oz (60g) unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped
Instructions
- Peel the garlic cloves and smash them with the side of a chef’s knife. Sprinkle the garlic lightly with salt and mince it.
- Pat the steak dry and season generously on both sides with salt and pepper. In a heavy-duty 12-inch (30 cm) skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat until shimmering hot. Add the steak and brown well on both sides, about 2 to 3 minutes per side for medium rare. Transfer the steak to a plate and let it rest while you prepare the garlic butter.
- In an 8-inch (20 cm) skillet, melt the butter over low heat. Add the garlic and cook, swirling the pan frequently, until lightly golden, about 4 minutes. Lightly salt to taste.
- Slice the steak, if you like, and transfer it to 4 plates. Spoon the garlic butter over the steak, sprinkle with parsley, and serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi! Do you think thin sliced beef chuck steak (diesmillo) will work for this recipe? if yes, is there any extra step needed? they’re on sale at nearby aldi this week :) Thank you for sharing. Your dishes are always delicious!
Hi Adele, I think so, but I didn’t use it…just follow the instructions to cook the steak.
Hi I’m making this recipe tonight. Do I really need to hand mince the garlic? I always use a garlic press to save time. I’m not sure if the texture of the garlic makes a difference in this dish though. I also wondered if it would be good using fresh basil in lieu of parsley? (I’m not a huge parsley fan)
Thank you! I’m looking forward to trying it and will leave a rating once I do! :)
Sure, you can use garlic press, I think it works fine. Basil sounds like a great idea. Let me know how this Brazilian steak turns out!
This turned out great! I did use a garlic press instead of mincingand I put the fresh basil on top. It was delicious!
That’s awesome, I am so happy!
How many servings?
Two.
Do you have the nutritional values for this? I am tracking what I eat and need to imput the numbers.
Yum! Looks perfect!
Fantastic recipe. I picked up some clearance skirt steak, and wanted something besides fajitas or Carne asada. Simple ingredients, complex flavors. I served mine with asparagus, refried Chipotle red beans and a nice tomato jalapeño white rice.
This recipe seduced me to make it because it was so simple.
I made it as directed but added shrimp. I made sure the shrimp were prepped before I timed them into the meal (frozen and deveined but I removed the tails).
The garlic butter sauce was great. Next time I will try to get the garlic minced to the finest degree possible so as to be more decadent if I want – perhaps garlic balls or Brazilian garlic cheese bread.
I decided on broiling white mushrooms as a vegetable. It was a good idea because my husband knows how to judge a meal so tried them first. They were hot from the oven and sweet in the way that mushrooms are when they don’t have seasoning to mess them up. He followed them with the shrimp. I was like, “Exactly.” The shrimp were perfect, sweet and not overcooked. Then, the saltiness and tenderness of the garlic butter Brazilian steak over rice. I went light on the parsley, only to taste. I didn’t hear a word until he’d finished. He said two times how good the steak was when once is always enough. He thought the whole meal was divine.
That’s awesome that you had an amazing meal with my recipe. Try more recipes on my site. They are all easy and amazing! :)
Can you use flat iron steak for this?
I think so.
Why does this call for unsalted butter? It obviously has plenty of salt in the finished product, so why go to the hassle of requiring unsalted butter? It tastes like shit, frankly, and we never use it in our house. Is there a benefit to using it that I’m not aware of?
Thanks,
Dan
Unsalted butter tastes like shit? Well, salted butter is basically the same butter with salt! So, are you saying pure butter tastes like shit or this dish tastes like shit? The reason why unsalted butter is used in this recipe is because you can control the amount of salt used in the recipe and not have to rely on the salt in the butter. Most cooks or chefs would use unsalted butter. It’s how butter should be.
Rasa Malaysia: You told him!!! Good for you!!! Keep it up, some dumb men don’t know shit about cooking!!!!!
:)
Lmao I love you Rasa
Awww thanks!
I tried it last night. It was juicy and delicious.
Awesome, thanks for trying my Garlic Butter Brazilian Steak.