There are so many different juicy and delicious meats to make. One of the more popular steaks, especially in the United States, is steak. Steak comes in various ways for example ribeye, sirloin steak, porterhouse, t-bone, filet mignon, etc.

Since so many can be covered, we narrowed it down to talking about the one and only Beef Bottom Round steak.

This type of meat is tender and tough, it usually has recipes that take a long time, however, these are the recipes that save you when you have little to no time to make something, or it is just a relaxing day.

The one that we have recipes for today is called Beef Bottom Round Steak. We’ve collected 20 mouth-watering recipes that would be perfect for family dinner, or hanging out with friends! The following recipes will be worth looking at and maybe even tried by you as well:

1. Round Steak with Rice & Gravy Recipe

One fantastic recipe you can choose for your beef bottom round steak is Round Steak with Rice and Gravy. This recipe contains an entire round steak that you will cut into pieces for easier cooking.

There is also rice and gravy, just like it says in the recipe’s title. White rice is the preferred one for this recipe, cooking that as the box or bag directs you to. The gravy is made while making the round steak.

This lovely, hearty meal can warm you up in the cold days of winter and even Autumn.

2. Round Steak And Mushrooms

Mushrooms and steak together are always a great and popular way of cooking them. This recipe brings them together, with onions and your choice between noodles and mashed potatoes. This also has a gravy to it.

3. Instant Pot Carne Asada Street Tacos

For this specific recipe, an instant pot is a required kitchen appliance. These amazing tacos are called Carne Asada Street Tacos. They are made with a marinated, pan-seared bottom-round steak.

These are then served on either a corn tortilla or a flour one. The marinade has a lot of different spices, as well as lemon, apple cider vinegar, and lime juice.

There is cayenne as a spice and chili powder, which some people may think are spicy, but they are essential to this food.

This is a traditional Mexican dish, and it is also considered to be their staple food. The term Carne Asada translates from Spanish to roasted or grilled meat in English.

4. Quick Skillet Steak with Onions and Mushrooms

Yes, this is yet another steak and mushroom recipe, however, this is prepared a little differently. You can also serve this one over rice, with a baked potato, or even a sweet potato if you prefer that.

Making a steak, onion, and mushroom sandwiches out of this recipe is also a possibility, it may be a little messy but all good food can be.

This type of recipe does call for the thinly sliced beef round or sirloin. Then you cook this meat with delicious onions and mushrooms. They get sauteed until they are soft.

5. Easy Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwich

One of the best dip sandwiches to make and eat, especially if you drink ale or even beer. This sandwich is a complement to those drinks.

This is an easy recipe to follow and make, but it does take a total of 6 hours. This is a slow cooker kind of meal, which could be perfect for a busy or cold, rainy/snowy day. It will warm you up on the inside so fast, filling your taste buds with a blast of flavor.

This recipe has Worcestershire sauce, salt to your taste, and a lot of other spices including onion powder and black pepper. Beef broth and soft but crunchy rolls are also essential in this recipe.

6. One Amazing “Bottom Round Roast” Recipe

This is another amazing recipe that is just made to be cooked on cold days. This is a roast, which is cooked a little differently. You’ll need a roasting pan for this recipe.

This recipe takes about 6 hours and 15 minutes in total to make. You’ll need 2 to 3 pounds of bottom roast, outside round, or the eye of the round.

This recipe has some of the tasty and well-known herbs you can find in most grocery stores, grow yourself, or even at farmers’ markets. There’s dried rosemary or thyme and dried basil.

There’s also minced garlic in this which is one of my all-time favorite spices to use, especially in sauces and meats because garlic gives a strong enough taste where you can taste it but it isn’t overwhelming.

7. Slow Cooker Creamy Beef Stroganoff

If you had beef stroganoff before, I’m sure you’ll agree this is a very tasty and flavorful kind of dish. It has egg noodles or mashed potatoes that the beef round and gravy along with the other ingredients goes on top of.

This is a slower recipe with a total cook time of 8 hours to 9 hours, which does seem like a long time, but this goes into the slow cooker, which does all the cooking for you.

8. Smothered Round Steak

Mushrooms, onions, garlic, and homemade gravy are what make up this type of recipe. Smothering your beef round (top round is preferred but bottom round works) with all of this will give you the best tasting cold weather meal, which is pretty popular in itself as well.

The gravy has a combination of beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, and onion soup mix. This makes it creamy and savory, and just the right consistency will spread easily over your beef.

9. Creole Beef Rice Bowl

Creole beef rice bowl is exactly how it sounds. This bowl is in the category of soups and stews, however, that can be argued by some. This recipe is on the shorter time side, with a total time of only one hour and thirty-five minutes.

For this, you will need to get the bottom round steak, and that has to be cubed into ½” cubes. This is on the healthier side because of all the veggies in it. There’s also an important part besides the meat which is the long grain white rice.

10. Traeger Smoked Bottom Round Roast Beef Recipe

This type of recipe is very good for big gatherings, like holidays, American football games, or maybe you just have a ton of people over. This takes around 8 hours to cook.

For this, you’re going to need a pellet smoker, and the pellet type blend. The round beef roast is the part of the meat you will need.

You need to preheat your pellet smoker to 250 degrees, then the roast gets stuffed with garlic, then put on the pellet smoker to roast for about 4 hours or the temperature you are trying to achieve. 130 degrees is the medium rare temperature for reference.

11. Dry Rubbed and Smoked Bottom Round Roast Beef

This recipe calls for 3 pounds of bottom-round roast. It is a dry rub recipe, so you will need to mix all your seasonings and then cover the roast in the mustard you need for this recipe.

After the roast is covered in mustard, you want to dry rub the seasonings onto the mustard covering the whole roast. Very flavorful and this will help the roast cook with all the flavors so it isn’t bland.

12. Steak & Onion Grilled Cheese

Everybody loves the classic grilled cheese, so why not spice it up a little bit? This takes the classic grilled cheese and adds meat, onions, cheese, and yummy toasted bread.

This specific recipe is only big enough for one grilled cheese so if you need to, you can double and even triple the recipe. You could even make as many as you want if you do the math correctly.

13. Philly Cheesesteak

The famous Pennsylvania sandwich. Originating in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States, this sandwich is bursting at the seams with flavor. This was invented in the 1930s, but it is eaten quite a bit.

You’re going to need either shaved bottom round beef from a store or your mandoline slicer, as well as a griddle.

The first thing you do is put the diced onions on the griddle and then from there on, the directions should tell you what to do.

14. Mexican Pan-Seared Round Steaks

Here is another Mexican Steak cuisine recipe. This one is pan-seared so that means you need a pan to cook this. The total time for this is about 35 minutes, making it perfect for a family dinner.

This recipe combines 10 different seasonings, a couple of herbs, and the bottom round steaks. Before pan searing, you dry rub with the seasonings and then you can plop it on the pan!

15. Crock Pot BBQ Steak Sandwiches

This article has quite a few slow cooker recipes, but that just means there are so many for the upcoming cold weather for the northern Hemisphere.

This recipe will make you bottom-round BBQ steak! Everyone loves a good barbecue sandwich, especially for an easy dinner idea. This could also be the perfect sandwich for any BBQs you might have.

There are so many items to this, including onions, celery, many seasonings, ketchup, etc. It takes 8 hours to make this dinner, but you will smell that delicious barbecue beef bottom round.

16. Easy Crockpot Pepper Steak Recipe

Even though this recipe title says it is an easy one, this recipe will take around 5 hours in total to be made. This cuisine is considered Chinese cuisine.

The round steak you need for this recipe needs to also be cut into thin slices. This also includes plenty of spices like pepper and salt as well as peppers and onions.

Just like every slow cooker recipe, these ingredients are all put in the crockpot at the same time, combined, and then cooked.

17. Air Fryer Beef And Broccoli

There are so many different kitchen appliances these days, the air fryer is one of them. Since this article is full of slow cooking recipes or recipes with the grill, smoker, and/or oven, at least one should be an air fryer recipe.

This is a beef and broccoli recipe, but the broccoli needs to be fresh and not frozen. This is the perfect recipe for tough cuts of meat like the beef bottom round steak.

You will also need minced garlic and minced ginger, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and even sesame oil! This makes a yummy and fast dinner idea, perfect if you have kids!

18. Easy Instant Pot Round Steak

A 6-quart instant pot is recommended for this recipe, however, any electric power cooker should also work. The total time it will take this to be ready is a short 25 minutes.

You will need 2 whole pounds of the beef bottom round steak, onion soup mix, water, and a can of cream of mushroom soup. There is an optional ingredient of egg noodles, but if you don’t like noodles you can make it without, or make it with mashed potatoes.

19. Best Oven Baked Round Steak

This is a good family recipe. It includes round steak, tomatoes, celery, and carrots. There are many other ingredients as well.

You do need to pan-sear your meat for 30 seconds to 1 minute, before transferring it to the baking pan.

20. Orange Beef with Broccoli Stir-Fry

This is considered both American cuisine and Chinese cuisine.

This specific recipe has so many ingredients to it, yet it only takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes. This one needs to make it on your to-eat list!

What Is Bottom-Round Steak Good For?

Before we get into what bottom-round steak is good for, we should get to know the steak a little better. So what exactly is the beef bottom round steak and where is it located on the cow?

A bottom-round steak is an inexpensive large piece of meat that could be easily considered a roast joint. It is a tender kind of steak that is usually made in crockpots and dinners with sauces.

When cooked correctly, you can easily make the bottom round steak a solo piece of meat. It is best for braising, but people use them in crockpot recipes, instant pot recipes, and other slow-cooking recipes.

It’s located where the rear legs, hips, and buttocks of the cow are. This area is called the round primal. The bottom round steak is cut from the bottom roast, which is where the center of the round primal is.

So, on to the original question. What is it good for? Well, this specific cut of meat is good for pretty much any recipe you can have steak in.

It is very affordable and commonly found in grocery stores and quite a few restaurants as well. However, not many people know about it, it is usually overshadowed by the more popular steak cuts.

What’s The Best Way To Cook A Bottom-Round Steak?

One of the best ways to cook a bottom-round steak is by braising it as stated above. There are plenty of other ways that leave you with a mouthwatering piece of meat. You can grill them, cook them on the stovetop or oven, and slow cook them.

Slow cooking is the second best way and you can do this by using a crockpot or an instant pot. Your steak will cook the entire day soaking in whatever you chose to marinate with, and if there are veggies, it’ll soak up some of that flavor along with the sauce.

Is Bottom-Round Steak A Good Cut Of Meat?

This question is honestly one that has an answer that could be biased. A lot of the sources however claim that this isn’t a super great cut. Though this cut is cheaper than the rest, it is tough and chewy if it isn’t prepared correctly.

Now if you are on a budget or maybe you want to save a little on dinner, this is an amazing choice. There are so many different types of recipes that you can use to make sure that this specific cut tastes fantastic and is nice and juicy.

The Different Round Steak Cuts

There are three different cuts of round steak. There is the top round steak, the bottom round steak we are already covering, and the eye of round steak.

The top round steak is a versatile meat that can be cooked either thick sliced or thin sliced. This cut is very lean and tasty, it even has enough taste for even the steak eaters that like it pink or bloody.

The next cut is called the eye of round steak. Remember when it was mentioned that the round steaks are found above the hind legs and the buttocks? Well, the eye-round steak is cut from the hindquarters. This is the cut that is usually made into ground beef or even popularly made in stews.

You can find countless recipes for both of these cuts. These are very popular and very well-known cuts of meat.

How Do You Cook A Bottom-Round Steak To Make It Tender?

You can make your steak tender by using the back of a knife or a meat tenderizer. With these, you will need to use brute force to make sure that it is getting tender and you aren’t thinking you are when you are not.

A couple of things you can use to help tenderize your steak are rubbing it in salt then using your mallet, or pouring a tenderizing marinade on it.

You should use your mallet no matter what because this is meant to make the meat softer and tender so you can cook and consume it easier.

How Can I Tenderize Steak Quickly?

The fastest way you can tenderize your steak, let alone any other meat that needs tenderizing, is by putting the meat on a cutting board, or with wax or plastic wrap before smashing it. This way you can protect your counter.

Since tenderizing your steak to the fullest can take a while, doing it this way will save you so much time and energy, especially when you are in a hurry. However, if you aren’t in a hurry, it would pay off, in the end, to make sure that you have done the tenderizing part thoroughly.

If you haven’t tenderized before, make sure you know how to use it correctly or you could potentially hurt yourself. This wouldn’t be good for you or your steak.

Can You Use Bottom-Round Steak For Philly Cheesesteak?

Yes, you very much can use this cut of steak in a Philly cheesesteak. In the recipe section for this article, you will find number 13 is the recipe for this specific kind of meal. As stated in the description, you will need quite a bit of half-frozen bottom-round steak.

You can use this cut of steak for a lot of recipes and cook and prepare it in many different ways. Even though this may not be the absolute best, it is not hard to find, buy, or make!

There are other recipes in this article that are worth the try, dare I say all of them do, especially the Philly Cheesesteak one!