The BEST Steak Recipe Cooked in the Oven

You’ve found an amazing oven steak recipe, and I’m teaching you how to cook a delicious steak in the oven!

Cooking with browned butter in a cast iron skillet, and coating in cracked peppercorn and kosher salt makes one of the best steak recipes EVER!

If you love cooking steaks or feel intimidated by it, then you’re going to love the other steak recipes here on the blog because they’re super easy and super flavorful!

Steak: Pan Seared & IN the Oven… that’s the key!

After growing up on a cattle farm, it may be a little odd that I don’t eat a TON of steak. Perhaps I take a little after my cattle-farmin’ grandpa, who RARELY ate any beef. (I guess he was around it all day, so he didn’t want to look at it when he got inside the house.)

But for me, it has NOTHING to do with the fact that I was raised on a cattle farm. I just have to be in the “mood,” for a nice juicy steak.

So this usually leaves me with saving the steak dinners for eating out for a special occasion. But when it’s my husband’s birthday… it’s time to get my “steak,” on, in the house.

How do you Cook Steak in the Oven?

I had paid very close attention in the past to what my husband said multiple times when we had been eating at a nice restaurant. He would mention something along the lines of,

Well the secret to a perfectly cooked steak is to finish it off in the oven.

What the whaa? I had never even thought about that the first time he mentioned it, but now that I know better… I completely agree with what he said.

So I knew that for his birthday, this steak was going to be making an appearance in the oven, and I needed to figure out how to do it.

Come to find out, searing it in browned butter in a cast iron pan before slipping it into a hot broiling oven… is my jam and now I’m showing you how to make your own oven steak recipe!

Look how to prepare steaks in this quick video and then we’ll get into the fine details so you can make your own too:

How to Cook Steak in the Oven

This year, my husband’s birthday fell on a Wednesday. It also fell on a day where a nearby town was facing severe clean up after a large tornado swept through, destroying SO many homes and businesses. Without hesitation, my sweet sweet husband spent his birthday rounding up men, excavation equipment, and supplies to help those in need.

I am continually amazed at his incredibly loving heart. I must say, this year I’ve enjoyed making this dinner for him, even MORE than I have in the past… because he deserved every single bit of it, and even more, for his sweet acts of kindness for others.

Easy Steak Recipe: Pan Seared & In the Oven

It’s no secret that I’m a major fan of cast iron. For goodness sakes, I even styled a party centered around “cast irons,” last month! See a peek at it below, and click HERE to see all of the party photos!

So although a cast-iron is NOT required to make this recipe, I can’t stress enough how much I love using it to make these.

I was once intimated by cooking with cast iron, but I decided to toughin’ up when I saw my mom start to use them more and more. Now… I can’t IMAGINE cooking so many things without one. (I won’t even go into how many I own at this point.)

Types of Steak

For this oven steak recipe, I used two thick-cut ribeye steaks. (Almost an inch thick, although you don’t HAVE to have steaks this same thickness.) You don’t have to use ribeye’s for this steak recipe though.

Feel free to use sirloin, NY strips, t-bone, porterhouse, any cut you like!

Steak Seasonings: Salt + Pepper

When I say “salt and pepper,” in any of my recipes, you can go ahead and count on that I mean kosher salt and this cracked peppercorn medley.

It is the most DELICIOUS combo of seasonings on a steak.

(Now don’t get me wrong. I love a good garlic pepper, lemon pepper, or any other seasoning for that matter… but it’s hard to beat a steak covered in kosher salt and peppercorn. Combine that with browned butter, and it’s game over with my taste buds. It’s the BEST.)

You can salt and pepper your steaks, according to your taste. For these two, I used a total of about a tablespoon of kosher salt and a teaspoon of peppercorn to season both.

Melted Butter Melts My Heart:

My second favorite smell in the entire world? Butter browning in a cast-iron skillet.

My first?? Carrots, celery, and onions sautéing in butter, in a cast-iron skillet. (I know, totally random. But if you’re in to “random,” things… I shared a video the other day, of 10 random things you may not know about me on my , just for fun. You know, if you have 5 minutes to waste and all.)

Sear the Steaks

It only takes a couple of minutes for these babies to sear in the cast iron, and then they’re off to the oven to bake for a few more minutes. Sear them for one minute on each side and then…

How Long to Cook Steak in Oven

The steak will only need 3 minutes in the oven after searing, and it will come out sizzling and smelling like you’re in a delicious steakhouse! If using your cast iron, go ahead and slip the whole pan in the oven.

Just soak in that sizzle sound and heavenly smell during this process, would ya?

Get the full recipe and step by step process in the recipe card below!

Within minutes, you have a steak that’s ready to devour, and if this is your first time cooking a steak… congratulations!!! Wasn’t that easy!?

Popular Steak Questions:

Steak Recipes

If you LOVE steak recipes as much as we do, then I must share with you other favorites you’ll love:

• BBQ Pork Steak Recipe
• Fried Deer Steak

Steak Dinner Ideas

No steak is complete without amazing side dishes to go with it, right? When cooking a steak, a good way to “round out” the dinner is to serve a vegetable and a potato with it.

Ladies… you’re gonna win your man’s heart over if you do the “steak and potata”… but honestly, most men could probably do without the veggies. But that pop of color on the plate always makes me happy, so I always include it!

Sides for Steak

Now, of course, there are many options for steak sides, but there are a few favorites that we serve as sides for steak.

My number one side dish to serve with steak is the BEST side salad recipe on the planet. You can find the little secret and recipe on how to make it the best you’ve had HERE!

But on his birthday I chose to make my all-time favorite healthy side dish recipes:  , and fiesta potato wedges with a buffalo blue cheese bacon dip, to complete his dinner plate this year.

Dessert for a Steak Dinner?

Then, to follow up… a no-bake Brownie Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Trifle for dessert, or browse our dessert recipes for the perfect idea for your steak dinner! Browse my easy dessert recipes!

We Love Easy Recipes!

Thank you for stopping by! If this is your first time here, please know that anything cooked in my kitchen is easy, and only made of ingredients that you typically have on hand, or that you can find just about anywhere! Heck with that complicated stuff.

Check out more of my favorite easy recipes!

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