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Steak Bites - Super delicious and easy to prepare - our Steak Bites are a great weeknight meal that the entire family will love!

Sometimes the simplest of recipes are the best – and these incredible Steak Bites are the perfect example of that! These Steak Bites are so delicious – I could easily eat an entire plateful of these little bites of beefy goodness myself! 😉

This recipe is super easy to prepare. Cubes of rib eye steak are seasoned overnight with salt, pepper and sprigs of fresh thyme. Then – about 15 minutes before dinnertime – simply sauté the Steak Bites in melted butter until done.

Here are a few additional tips and tricks to ensure that your Steak Bites are cooked perfectly:

First: Don’t over crowd the pan when cooking your steak bites. If there are too many cubes of beef in your skillet, the beef will steam instead of browning and caramelizing. So – cook your bites in batches depending on the size of your skillet.

Steak Bites - Super delicious and easy to prepare - our Steak Bites are a great weeknight meal that the entire family will love!

Second: Make sure that your skillet is smoking hot before you add the cubes of beef. Doing so will add an immediate sear to the outside of your cubes of beef, locking in the juices. We recommend a using cast iron skillet because they are great at retaining heat – but any heavy-duty skillet will do. (Just don’t use a coated, non-stick skillet – you won’t get the same browning and searing effect that you want for this recipe.)

Third: Although not critical, we recommend using clarified butter to sauté your Steak Bites rather than butter right out of the package. Non-clarified butter contains milk solids which can burn at very high cooking temperatures – so clarified butter with the solids removed is really best suited for this recipe!

(It’s actually quite easy to make clarified butter at home – see our tutorial here.)

Steak Bites - Super delicious and easy to prepare - our Steak Bites are a great weeknight meal that the entire family will love!

Follow our recipe – and you’re going to find it hard not to stop yourself from popping these delicious Steak Bites into your mouth! (Just try to save enough to serve them for dinner!)

We love seeing what you made! Tag us on Instagram at @afamilyfeast or hashtag #afamilyfeast so we can see your creations!

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Steak Bites

Yield: 4–6 servings 1x
Prep: 12 hoursCook: 15 minsTotal: 12 hours 15 minutes
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Ingredients

  • 2 pounds rib eye steak cut into bite sized cubes, all fat removed
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 6 or more large sprigs of fresh thyme
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter (clarified butter is better but not critical)

Instructions

  1. Lay meat on cutting board and sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper.
  2. Begin layering beef and thyme sprigs in several layers into a zip lock quart bag so that the thyme is layered throughout.
  3. The following day, discard thyme and pat beef dry with paper towels.
  4. In a large cast iron skillet, melt butter over the highest heat you can and keep the flame on high throughout.
  5. Once the pan is smoking hot, (turn your range hood fan on high) but before the butter burns, place one third of the beef not touching each other in the hot fat and sear 1½ to 2 minutes per side, maximum four minutes total. Remove to a platter and repeat for the next two batches.
  6. Pour hot fat over cooked steak bites and serve. (**Caution, due to the extreme heat, the cast iron skillet will be hot enough to pass heat through your oven mitt to your hand, like it did with mine. Double up when grabbing the handle.)

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Steak Bites - Super delicious and easy to prepare - our Steak Bites are a great weeknight meal that the entire family will love!

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Martha is part of the husband-wife team that creates A Family Feast. She loves to cook and entertain for family and friends, and she believes that serving a great meal is one of the best ways to show someone that you care. Martha is a self-taught home cook, who loves to read cookbooks and try new recipes. After a decades-long career in business and online marketing, she now runs A Family Feast full-time. Her specialties are baking, desserts, vegetables and pasta dishes.

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  1. Mignone says

    Posted on 3/12/25 at 7:57 am

    Instead of unsalted butter, can I use garlic butter? Thanks.

    Reply
    • Martha says

      Posted on 3/12/25 at 8:52 am

      Hi Mignone – If your garlic butter has lots of little bits of garlic in it, you might end up with some extra charring. If that doesn’t bother you, you can use it. Hope that helps!

      Reply
  2. Gary Sause says

    Posted on 4/9/16 at 12:15 am

    I don’t want to offend you, but I followed your recipe, and it was such a disappointment. I went out to get a cast iron skillet, just so I could follow the recipe exactly, and it was not very good at all.

    Reply
    • Martha says

      Posted on 4/9/16 at 6:24 pm

      Thanks for your feedback Gary. We’re sorry you were disappointed with the recipe.

      Reply
  3. Linda R says

    Posted on 10/27/15 at 1:31 pm

    Hi Martha,
    I just rushed to the freezer to retrieve two NY strips I put in the freezer this morning. We usually don’t eat steak when we are in the city at our condo (we don’t grill here.) So these were purchased for a lake weekend dinner. Problem solved now with your steak bites recipe!!
    I am going to make your creamy horseradish earlier than I planned—just love a bit horseradish on each bite of my steak or prime rib.
    Scrolling down, Jack’s recipe for caramelized onion and steak bites got my attention. Oh my, the list goes on and on!!!!
    By the way, we loved the recipe for Blueberry Buckle you posted earlier.
    We have loved each and every recipe from your site that I have prepared.
    God Bless,
    Linda

    Reply
    • Martha says

      Posted on 10/27/15 at 1:48 pm

      Thank you so much Linda! YES – the horseradish sauce would be great with these steak bites! So glad you are enjoying the recipes and thank you for taking the time to write in again – we appreciate it so much! Have a great afternoon! Martha

      Reply
  4. Terry says

    Posted on 10/27/15 at 12:51 pm

    Hey there! The next time you cook steak bites, cook them in some butter and soy sauce and you will get the same flavor as when you go to one of those Japanese steak houses where they cook the food in front of you. I serve with fried rice and sautéed mushrooms, onions and zucchini. I found a recipe online for “white sauce” to dip everything in. YUM!!! Try it and see what you think. Terry

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    • Martha says

      Posted on 10/27/15 at 1:45 pm

      Sounds delicious Terry! We will definitely give your recipe a try! Thanks for writing in today!

      Reply
  5. Shelly says

    Posted on 10/27/15 at 11:06 am

    Dang those steak bites look good!!!!

    Reply
    • Martha says

      Posted on 10/27/15 at 1:46 pm

      Thanks Shelly! 🙂

      Reply

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