Skillet Garlic Butter Steak

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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.
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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

Close up photo of garlic butter steak in a skillet.

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

Cooking a steak in a cast-iron skillet.

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

Skillet keto garlic butter steak.

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!


Frequently Asked Questions

How many calories per serving?

This recipe is only 248 calories per serving.

Medium rare top sirloin steak cooked in a skillet and served with garlic herb butter.

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4.53 from 17 votes

Skillet Garlic Butter Steak

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!
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4 people
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Ingredients  

  • 12 oz (340g) top sirloin steaks, about 1 1/2-inch (4cm) 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

Instructions 

  • Season both sides of the top sirloin steaks generously with salt and ground black pepper. Set aside.
    Top Sirloin Steak
  • Prepare the Garlic Butter by mixing the butter, garlic and parsley together. Let cool in the fridge.
    Garlic Butter
  • Heat up a cast-iron skillet on high heat until smoking hot. Add the oil. Transfer the steak to the skillet and pan-sear each side (do not turn) for about 4 minutes. Turn over and pan-sear the other side for another 4 minutes. Transfer the steak to a serving platter.
  • Add a dollop of the Garlic Butter on top of the steak and serve immediately.

Nutrition

Serving: 4people, Calories: 248kcal, Protein: 38g, Fat: 9g, Saturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 100mg, Sodium: 96mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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8 Comments

  1. Carol Simen says:

    Can a ribeye or New York strip steak be used instead of sirloin using this same method and timing? Also, will Thyme be a good substitute for the parsley?

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Carol sure, that will work.

  2. Yeh Ximin says:

    5 stars

  3. Kimberly Spering says:

    4 stars
    Probably my outcome had to do with the heat of the cast iron pan — I heated it until smoking, but after 3 minutes the outside of the steaks were black/burned. I immediately flipped the steaks and cooked for 2 more minutes. The inside was perfectly rare/medium-rare. The garlic butter was great.
    I will just watch my stove next time to make sure the steaks don’t burn.
    Taste was outstanding!

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Hi Kimberly, thanks for trying my skillet garlic butter steak recipe. Yes timing is everything, I am sure your steak will be perfect next time! :)

  4. Mahy Elamin says:

    5 stars
    This is the most perfect steak and I love the garlic butter!

  5. Karen Smith says:

    yum yum

    1. Rasa Malaysia says:

      Thanks Karen.