Garlic Butter Steak and Potato Foil Packets

These Garlic Butter Steak and Potato Foil Packets are an easy family dinner recipe for summer. They turn out so delicious with plenty of buttery and garlicky flavor.

Cook them on the grill/campfire or in the oven for a simple dinner at home or on the road!

Ingredients you’ll need

Here is a visual overview of the ingredients in the recipe. Scroll down to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post for quantities!

Ingredient notes

• Steak: It’s important to use a cut that stays tender when cooked this way. Top sirloin is definitely my preferred cut for foil packets – and what I usually use when I make these.
• Potatoes: I use fingerling or baby potatoes, or smaller Yukon Golds. I prefer these over others, because they don’t need to be peeled and are quicker/easier to prep.
• Olive oil: This is my preferred oil for this recipe, but feel free to use a different vegetable oil you use in your kitchen.
• Garlic: For a more intense garlic flavor (my amount is on the kid-friendly side ?), double the amount of garlic used.
• More flavor: If you want to make the potatoes more decadent, mix some chopped bacon and/or shredded cheddar cheese into them before sealing the packets.
• I highly recommend pre-boiling the potatoes. It’s an extra step, but it’s worth it to avoid ending up with overcooked steak and/or raw potatoes.
• Please be aware that this is meant to be used as a quick/easy dinner or to make when camping, not as a way to cook the perfect steak. The perfect steak, I believe, is only achieved when you cook a steak by itself and can solely focus on getting the perfect doneness on your meat. I still love this recipe for its ease and simplicity, but again, it’s not a recipe for perfectly cooked steak.
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  Cooking steak and potatoes together in a foil packet makes dinner on the grill (or the fire) so easy and flavorful. 

   

   

  Ingredients you’ll need

  Here is a visual overview of the ingredients in the recipe. Scroll down to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post for quantities!

   

  Ingredient notes

  • Steak: It’s important to use a cut that stays tender when cooked this way. Top sirloin is definitely my preferred cut for foil packets – and what I usually use when I make these.
  • Potatoes: I use fingerling or baby potatoes, or smaller Yukon Golds. I prefer these over others, because they don’t need to be peeled and are quicker/easier to prep.
  • Olive oil: This is my preferred oil for this recipe, but feel free to use a different vegetable oil you use in your kitchen.
  • Garlic: For a more intense garlic flavor (my amount is on the kid-friendly side ?), double the amount of garlic used.
  • More flavor: If you want to make the potatoes more decadent, mix some chopped bacon and/or shredded cheddar cheese into them before sealing the packets.
  • Vegetables? If you want to cook some vegetables right along the steak and potatoes in the foil packets, green peppers, asparagus or green beans can be added.Vegetables? If you want to cook some vegetables right along the steak and potatoes in the foil packets, green peppers, asparagus or green beans can be added.

  Best steak cuts for this recipe

  It’s important to use a cut that stays tender when cooked this way.

  Top sirloin is definitely my preferred cut for foil packets – and what I usually use when I make them. But cuts like ribeye or porterhouse work great, too. They are less lean though!

  How to make steak foil packets

  Note: I highly, highly recommend par-boiling your potatoes for 5 minutes before adding them to the foil packets! I didn’t include this step in a previous version of the recipe, but have since come to the conclusion that it just works out better with the par-boiling.

  1.Allow the potatoes to cool enough so you can handle them, then toss with all of the ingredients (except for the butter).

  2.Evenly divide between four large pieces of aluminium foil. I highly recommend using a double layer, or using heavy duty foil if you’re cooking on the campfire.

   

  3.Fold the foil packets as follows:

   

  4.Cook the foil packets in the oven, on the grill or on the campfire (see the recipe card below for exact instructions for each method.

  If your potatoes aren’t cooked through

  If your steak is done way ahead of your potatoes (this can happen due to several factors; happens less likely if you parboil the potatoes), carefully remove the steak from the foil packets and place it on a plate and cover with a fresh piece of foil to rest. Continue cooking the potatoes until they’re done.

  Note about the foil

  Foil packets are definitely one of my favorite easy summer meals, even though I mostly avoid using foil in my kitchen otherwise. I do buy recycled aluminum foil from If You Care.