Beef Flank Steak Recipes for Flavorful, Gourmet Style Dinners at Home

This collection of easy beef flank steak recipes features a wide range of dishes, from steaks cooked with different marinades to stir-fries, tacos, and one-pan skillet dishes.

Whether you need a fast weeknight meal or something truly outstanding for visitors or special occasions, these delicate and satisfying steaks are sure to be a hit at the table!

Collection of Beef Flank Steak Recipes

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Orange Beef Recipe

This recipe is a simple concept. Pieces of thinly sliced flank steak are simmered in a zesty orange and soy sauce until tender enough to yield to the tongue readily. Yet another Asian-inspired knockout dish.

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Steak Taco Recipe

Fine dining meets street food in this exquisite Steak Taco recipe. It delivers top-quality beef served rustically to satisfy even the deepest of cravings.

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Beef Shawarma Recipe

The best Middle Eastern dishes will instantly blow your taste buds away. Bear witness to the richness of this cuisine with this fragrant Shawarma made right in 15 minutes.

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Instant Pot Carne Asada Recipe

Tacos come in different forms, and carne asada is one of them. The shreds of tender beef dredged in spicy broth flavors make this a truly unique taco that’ll disappear rapidly at the dining table!

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Beef Tapa Recipe

This Filipino dish of thinly-sliced steak is what we forage for when we’re famished. It’s tender and marinated meat served with a sunny-side-up egg and fried rice — the epitome of a rewarding meal.

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Ginger Beef Recipe

We love how the bitterness of ginger in this treat works well with the brown sugar sauce. It creates a playful dynamic of flavors from peppy to sweet and an array of aromas in between.

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Beef Stir-Fry Recipe

This recipe will become a top choice for down days. You need just 25 minutes to turn broccoli, carrots, and snow peas into allies for a quick yet satisfactory meal.

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Creamy Steak Fettuccine Recipe

This dish includes a creamy tomato and mushroom broth, which is the secret to its impressive quality. It’s an excellent way to make a homemade dish taste expensive.

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Beef Chow Mein Recipe

Another egg-noodle dish to fulfill, Chow Mein is easily a favorite for curbing carb cravings. Stir-fry flank steak with voluminous veggies (bok choy, cabbage) and noodles in soy sauce and serve right away.

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Thai Beef Salad Recipe

This amalgam of jalapeños, chili, lime juice, sriracha, and fish sauce is a feisty fusion gentled by fresh vegetables and roasted peanuts. Don’t be surprised if you can’t get enough of it.

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Beef Marinade Recipe

Please relax when it comes to the simplicity of this marinade dish. You’ll discover its lush essence right in the center of each slice of steak while chomping each piece up with fluffy roasted potatoes.

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Hunan Beef Recipe

When you bring a dish as dazzlingly colorful as this Hunan Beef to the table, your guests should expect it to be every bit as explosive in flavor. All in all, it’ll come down to their tastes. But you can still rest knowing that the effort you put into preparing it will count for something.

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Beef Lo Mein Recipe

This remake of a restaurant Chinese dish will make you want to exchange your versatile menu for this treat throughout the week. The marrying of carrots, bell pepper, and ginger is utterly irresistible. You’ll soon realize you can only take so much goodness.

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Beef Fajitas Recipe

Fajitas are a fistful (and more) of beloved Mexican flavors. Each corn tortilla combines colorful bell peppers, meat, and cheese for an exquisitely toothsome bite.

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Beef Tomato Recipe

What looks like a simple dish produces many irresistible, tomato-sweet flavors. It’s so succulent and delicious you’ll have to eat it with your shoes off so you can wiggle your toes.

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Beef Teriyaki Recipe

The Teriyaki technique is among the most popular ways to prepare an Asian dish. It encapsulates a dark, glossy, and umami sauce with a tinge of sweetness that never fails to entice the taste buds.

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Beef and Mushrooms Recipe

This dish is proof of basic ingredients par excellence. Simply sear mushrooms, onions, and beef in a semi-sweet soy sauce until caramelized, and serve with fluffy white rice. That’s it — no heavy lifting. Except to convince your guests that it really is that simple.

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Beef and Broccoli Recipe

This recipe will show you how to make a Chinese stir-fry look easy. It’s a matter of cooking your marinated meat and veggies in one skillet until tender. Serve over a bed of fluffy white rice.

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Beef Chow Fun Recipe

This Chow Fun is a rice noodle stir-fry that exudes umami undertones. With tender mushrooms basking in a luscious soy sauce, it’s just what you need for a gratifying feast.

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What Spices and Herbs Go Well With Flank Steak?

The most prevalent steak seasonings are salt and pepper. While there is nothing wrong with these simple condiments, it’s also a great idea to add herbs and spices to your seasoning blend. Here are some of the best herbs and spices that bring out the natural flavor of meat:

Fresh Herbs: Fresh herbs taste best when sprinkled over meat just before serving. Fresh chives, basil, coriander, and parsley taste fantastic with steak, burgers, and any grilled beef.
Dried Herbs: Dried herbs are delicious on roast beef or added to stews and braises. Don't forget that dried herbs are stronger than fresh herbs; you will normally need 2 - 3 times as much fresh herbs as dried. Rosemary, oregano, tarragon, thyme, and bay leaves are among the dried herbs that pair especially well with steak.
Spices: Spices can be added directly to beef or to braising pots, stews, curries, and casseroles before cooking. We recommend using a mixture of herbs, spices, and salt/pepper when constructing a dry beef rub, and letting it marinate for a few hours prior to cooking. Beef goes well with cumin, cinnamon, red pepper flakes, cayenne pepper, curry powder, and mustard powder.

How to Marinate

The flank steak is cut from the abdomen muscle of the cow. It is exceptionally lean, muscular, and low in fat, yet has a powerful, robust taste.

Although flank steak is a tough cut of beef, when marinated, it becomes extraordinarily juicy and tasty. Marinating agents such as citrus juice or vinegar break down the tough muscle fibers, resulting in a soft steak.

Marinating also adds an abundance of flavor. As a result, the meat not only becomes buttery soft but also absorbs the marinade and bursts with flavor.

Note that, to ensure hygienic conditions and food safety, steak should always be marinated for an extended amount of time in the refrigerator and never at room temperature.

Remove the steak from the refrigerator 60 minutes before you plan to prepare it. This will help get it to room temperature and ensure that the meat cooks more evenly.

The Best Ways to Cook

Flank steak is a popular ingredient for grilling and searing since it cooks fast at high temperatures. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about how to cook your new favorite beef cut!

Grill

Grilling is our favorite way to cook flank steak. Simply lay the flank steak over direct heat on the grill for 5 - 6 minutes per side, with just one flip. The steak requires continual direct heat to achieve its distinctive, strongly flavorful crust. If you continue to rotate the steak, it will brown but not get that tasty char.

Transfer the flank steak to a platter and allow it to rest for 10 minutes prior to slicing. During the steak's cooking, the juice is driven away from the heat and toward the meat's center. Resting time allows the redistribution and reabsorption of the steak's juice, resulting in delicious flavor and tenderness.

Oven

If you don't have a grill or it's not grilling season, you can use alternative methods like cooking on the stove or in the oven to achieve the typical smoky taste.

The flank steak is baked to simulate the high-directional heat of a grill. Place the steak on a sheet pan and cook at a distance of 6 - 8 inches from the broiler for 6 to 8 minutes per side, or until the food achieves the desired doneness.

Stovetop

In a large cast-iron pan, heat one tablespoon of olive oil over medium-high heat. Cook for 6 to 8 minutes per side, or until it reaches the desired temperature.

How Long to Cook

As flank steak is a lean cut of beef, it should not be cooked beyond medium; otherwise, it will become tough and chewy rather than juicy. We frequently aim for medium, meaning it will be pink in the center.

Depending on the thickness of the steak and the desired degree of doneness, the cooking time will range from 5 to 6 minutes per side. Using an instant meat thermometer is the easiest technique to determine if flank steak is perfectly done without being overcooked.

Rare steak: 125 ℉
Medium rare: 135 ℉
Medium: 145 ℉
Medium well: 155 ℉
Well done: 165 ℉

For safety, the USDA advises steaks be cooked to 145°F and rested for at least 3 minutes before cutting and consumption.