Here’s a comforting Beef and Gravy Over Mashed Potatoes recipe 🥩🥔—simple, hearty, and perfect for a cozy dinner.
Beef and Gravy Over Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients (Serves 4)
Beef & Gravy
- 1 lb beef stew meat or ground beef
- 2 tablespoons oil or butter
- 1 small onion, sliced or diced
- 2 cups beef broth
- 1 packet brown gravy mix or
2 tablespoons flour + 2 tablespoons butter (homemade option) - Salt and pepper, to taste
- Optional: 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce or garlic powder
Mashed Potatoes
- 2 lbs potatoes, peeled and chopped
- 4 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup milk
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Make mashed potatoes
- Boil potatoes in salted water 15–20 minutes until fork-tender.
- Drain, mash with butter and milk.
- Season with salt and pepper. Keep warm.
- Cook the beef
- Heat oil or butter in a skillet over medium heat.
- Add beef and onion; cook until browned and onion is soft.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Make the gravy
- If using gravy mix: stir beef broth and gravy mix into skillet.
- If homemade: sprinkle flour over beef, stir 1 minute, then slowly add broth.
- Simmer 5–10 minutes until thickened.
- Add Worcestershire or garlic powder if using.
- Serve
- Spoon mashed potatoes onto plates.
- Top with beef and gravy.
Tips & Variations
- 🧅 Add mushrooms for beef & mushroom gravy
- 🥩 Use sirloin strips for a steakhouse-style version
- 🧄 Add roasted garlic to the mashed potatoes
- 🥣 Make it extra creamy by adding a splash of cream to the gravy
If you want, I can also give a slow cooker version, a hamburger gravy version, or a Southern-style cube steak take.
