A simple marinade, a little patience, and a very hot oven are all you need to prepare these Roasted Herbed Beef Tips. Use a good cut of beef for the most tender bites! They can be marinated for 12 hours and takes just 20 minutes to roast, so this is a great option for a weeknight family dinner!
Moist, succulent, perfectly seasoned, and bite-sized; these are just a few ways to describe these Roasted Herbed Beef Tips. Marinated and oven-roasted to perfection, and using the most simple ingredients, the beef is transformed into a mouth-watering dish with numerous serving options.
Roasted Herbed Beef Tips might just become my go-to beef recipe. And, not only because they are pop-in-your-mouth delicious, but also because they are perfectly seasoned and absolutely the easiest beef dish I’ve ever made! Whatever you do, try at all costs to not overcook the meat. Even if you prefer well-done beef, as I do, do not cook these past medium at the most. Otherwise, they will become too tough and chewy.
Make your own online recipe box!
Click the in the lower right corner of your screen
& follow the quick and easy instructions!
INGREDIENTS NEEDED FOR THIS RECIPE
The following is a list of the ingredients needed to prepare this recipe. For exact amounts and measurements, refer to the printable recipe card located near the bottom of this post.
- Beef – I used sirloin steak for this dish, but you can use other cuts too. The key to really good beef is one that has lots of marbling; it will keep the beef moist and tender.
- Garlic – Use fresh garlic for maximum flavour!
- Parsley – Fresh parsley adds lots of freshness to the dish, and it looks so pretty when roasted right on the beef.
- Olive Oil – This is the base for the marinade and it helps to keep all of those marinade ingredients on the beef.
- Lemon Juice – For freshness and zing!
- Spices & Herbs – You will need dried oregano, dried thyme, onion powder, salt, ground black pepper, and dried red chili flakes. The chili flakes are optional!
- Non-Stick Cooking Spray
- Water
WHAT ARE BEEF TIPS?
In essence, beef tips are chunks of meat that have been cut from larger pieces. I always think of them as the pieces of meat that are trimmed away by a butcher to make a larger cut of beef look better.
Usually, beef tips are cut from roasts such as sirloin or tenderloin. But, to be perfectly honest, you can find beef tips that are the result of other cuts of beef as well. If you’re braising the beef tips, you can use just about any cut you want. But, that same freedom cannot be applied to this recipe. If you have stewing beef, which is tough, you can try this beef tips and gravy recipe.
For this recipe, you’ll want to use a cut of beef that is tender such as sirloin. This will also work with beef tenderloin. And, if you’re desperate, you can even dice up that huge steak you have sitting in the fridge!
I used sirloin for two reasons. First, it’s a tender cut of beef that doesn’t need a long and slow cooking time for it to be tender and moist. Secondly, it’s never an overly expensive cut. I do prefer to buy a whole sirloin and cube it myself rather than buy already prepared beef tips at the store.
HOW TO SERVE BEEF TIPS
These beef tips can be served in numerous ways. For instance, these would be great served alongside mashed potatoes or a scalloped potato dish. Toss them into a pita or a wrap with some fresh-cut veggies, and your condiment of choice.
Add them to a simple pasta salad with a little olive oil and fresh parsley, salt, pepper, and garlic. Or, pile a few beef tips onto your favourite salad – how’s that for a great salad topping!?
I enjoy them the most when they are served alongside my Vegetable Potato Salad. The combination of potato salad and beef has always been a favourite of mine. My mom used to make a slow braised barbecue version of cubed beef and serve it with potato salad. It is in my top ten list of my most favoured meals.
RECIPE TIPS & TRICKS
- In this recipe, Beef Tips are cooked on a wire cooling rack. The rack is placed onto a baking sheet to catch any grease that drips. Try wrapping the baking sheet in aluminum foil to make cleanup very easy!
- It is vitally important to coat the wire cooling rack well with non-stick cooking spray. This does two things. It helps the beef to not stick to the rack. It also helps to make the cleaning of the rack easier too.
- Once cooked, remove the beef from the oven. If you want charred bits of beef, turn on your broiler to high and wait until it has reached the temperature. Place the rack of beef tips under the broiler for about a minute to brown them up.
IT’S SO EASY TO MAKE, ANYONE CAN DO IT!
Other than the taste, my favourite part of this recipe is how easy it is to make. In a nutshell, the ingredients are whisked together and tossed with the beef. You then set it in the fridge so that the beef can soak up all of those flavours.
Once that’s done, you line the beef cubes up on a wire cooling rack and bake them at a high temperature for 20 minutes. It really could not get any easier than that!
Depending on how I feel at the time, I sometimes cut the cooking time short by a few minutes and then place the beef under a broiler to get it nice and charred. Char is flavour!
Do You Like This Recipe?
You should consider trying these other delicious recipes too!
Roasted Herbed Beef Tips
Ingredients
- 2 pounds sirloin steak cut into 1 inch cubes
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 cup finely chopped fresh parsley
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon dried red chili flakes, optional
- Non-stick cooking spray
Instructions
- Add all ingredients, except the beef, to a mixing bowl and whisk together.
- Pour the mixture into a large Ziploc bag.
- Add the beef and massage the bag to ensure all of the beef is covered by the marinade mixture.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour. (Can be left to marinate for up to 12 hours.)
- Remove the beef from the refrigerator and allow to sit at room temperature for at least 10 minutes. In the meantime, preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper to catch the grease, and position a wire cooling rack on top. Liberally spray the cooling rack with non-stick cooking spray.
- Position the cubes of beef onto the wire cooling rack, leaving a little space between each piece.
- Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Did you make this recipe?
Upload a photo and tag me so that I can see it!
Pam Wattenbarger says
Man, I haven’t made beef tips in ages. My husband and son would love it if I made these for dinner one night!
Marisa Franca @ All Our Way says
Oh, wow! The beef looks fantastic. Now, I’m envisioning the tips plus delicious juice over polenta. 🙂 I might even make a gremolata to sprinkle on top. YUM! I really like that you do it in the oven. Hubby usually grabs our beef and rushes it out to the grill. This way you get to save that wonderful au jus. I’m pinning!!
Veena Azmanov says
I love the color you got on the herbed beef. The spices sounds so flavorful – what’s best is you got it done in 30 minutes!! Love such easy cooking. Thanks – on my list of must try!!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Thank you, Veena. 😉
Dene' V. Alexander says
Oh, man! Those herbs really seal the deal for me on this dish! And the color you achieved on the beef is gaaaawwwgeous!!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
LOL – thank you!
Jennifer A Stewart says
I love these! I could eat them with a toothpick and nothing else. My favorite is to make shredded beef in the crock pot because it is so easy but to have the texture of a piece of meat and only have to bake in the oven is just as good!
Tina says
These sound so simple and delicious. I rarely ever make beef in the oven, but it sounds like a really easy method! I’d have these with scalloped potatoes!
Kathryn @ FoodieGirlChicago says
These look delicious! I love the simple seasonings you used – I’m sure they pack a lot of flavor. These would be great on the grill too!
Kaylee says
I made this with sirloin tips and didn’t bother to cut them. I didn’t have all the right spices or even any lemon juice, but I used some Montreal steak seasoning, garlic powder, and oregano with the olive oil mixture. It came out absolutely delicious and my family loved it. I will be making it again and maybe even buying the right ingredients next time.
Hanady | Recipe Nomad says
Those beef tips look fantastic!! And I love how versatile they can be! I’ll be adding them to a big bowl of pasta salad this weekend!
Stephanie@ApplesforCJ says
I love easy, Multi-functional recipes. It’s great when you can come up with something really flavorful and serve it in many different ways. I kind of do something similar with Portabella Mushrooms!
Christine McMichael says
Yum! I really wanting to start cooking more beef. My husband would love this recipe!
Kylee from Kylee Cooks says
Oh. My. GOODNESS!!!! My mouth is watering! I need to try this immediately. I LOVE roasted beef. And those herbs…
I kind of hate you. I’m hungry and that pic isn’t helping.
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Um, I’m sorry?? 😉
Adriana Lopez Martn says
wow and more wow those beef tips look amazing and your photography is impecable, I wish I could taste this dish tonight yummy!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Thank you, Adriana. My food photography skills are still being worked on and I’m hoping to improve, but thank you for the vote of confidence. 🙂
chei says
Wow these are a great beef tips! I will definitely try this. Thanks! 🙂
Molly Kumar says
This looks so juicy and I love the simple marinade, Byron. I always tend to like meat that is marinated and oven cooked as it not only helps the meat soak up all the juices, tenderizes naturally but also cooks the meat evenly. I’m sure this would be gone in seconds after serving 🙂
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Thank you, Molly. It surely didn’t last long here. 🙂
Priya Srinivasan says
That sounds like a quickie recipe. I love recipes that need less preps!!
Ashley - Forking Up says
Oh excellent, I just scored a bunch of discount beef that’s sitting in my freezer and I didn’t want to just do the usual stew with them. These look beautiful and delicious!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Thank you, Ashley!
Julie | Bunsen Burner Bakery says
These look so delicious! I’m sitting here at work right now at 7pm, I haven’t had anything to eat in 11 hours because it’s been such a hectic day – I think I might actually be drooling looking at these pictures!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Oh, Julie, get something to eat! Eleven hours? Isn’t that illegal somewhere? 🙂
graham says
Gonna definitely try this soon but instead of water I’ll use beef broth
Vera says
I have to try these ASAP! They look so good!
Kera says
Do you think these could be cooked on the grill? In tin foil maybe? It sounds delicious and I have some beef tips to use up but its 80 degrees out and I don’t want to run the oven.
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Foil? Hmmm… I think skewers would be best!
Kera says
I’m going to try them as skewers tomorrow.
byronethomas@gmail.com says
I love anything on a skewer. Let me know how they work!
Ashley says
Is 2 cups of parsley correct for only 2lbs of meat? Just seems like too much.
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Yes. It seems like a lot, but it works. 🙂
Kerri says
Sounds good! All I got on hand is dried parsley, would that work and how much do you think?
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Hi Kerri,
I don’t think there’s much of a difference between fresh and dried parsley. The flavour of parsley does not intensify during the drying process – at least in my opinion it doesn’t. I would use the same amount.
Kerri says
Ok,,,,so I made these tonight–so delicious! The dried parsley worked out well, the fresh is most likely better, but everyone really liked the meal. I did mashed potatoes and sautéed green beans with bacon. The only thing for me is timing. I baked only for 20 minutes and was perfect and tender. I set out of the oven to “rest” a bit while I finished up the green beans and the steak cooled too much. Maybe I should have tented it with foil?
byronethomas@gmail.com says
I’m glad to hear the dried parsley worked well for you. In fact, I just now responded to your initial comment, but I guess you’ve already figured it out. 🙂 It’s a great recipe, and yes, I think the foil would have certainly helped keep the beef warm. Now you’ve got me craving green beans with bacon. Yum!
Ada says
Is it 400 degrees Fahrenheit or 400 degrees celcius?Btw it looks delicious.
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Thanks, Ada. It’s 400 degrees Fahrenheit. 🙂
Andrea says
I’m looking forward to trying out this recipe! I’m still building up my kitchen essentials since I’ve recently moved into a new home, so I don’t have a rack on hand. Could the recipe be done without one or is that a key step in the cooking process? Thanks!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Hi Andrea, yes, I think the recipe would work well without a rack. Just check it at the half way mark to ensure it’s not burning. 🙂
Tiffany says
This recipe looks yum!! I was considering putting a hard seer on the meat before oven cooking. Would you recommend this or could it alter the dish too much?
Thanks!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Hi Tiffany,
I would not do that as it will greatly alter the cooking time for this recipe. And the sear is really not needed. 🙂
Susan says
Wow! Even 15 minutes with good sirloin was too long. Our meat came out dry, overcooked and flavorless. Like I told my family as I apologized profusely…”they aren’t all winners:.
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Hi Susan,
I’m sorry to hear this! I’m trying to think of why it would be so dry so quickly and the only thing I can think of is that maybe your chunks of beef were too small. Is that possible?
sherry says
Hello I was just looking at your recipe and it looks similar to one my mother was telling me about how my grandmother fixed, except my grandmother tossed hers in flour and browned just a bit and did the rest of her recipe in the oven. She used the drippings for gravy as well. Your recipe looks VERY delicious and it cuts out carbs that I do not need!! I think that I may try both your ways without the flour and using the drippings to help make a bit of “gravy” for the egg noodles!!! Any suggestions from you are very much appreciated!!
Nici says
Making these tonight. Can’t wait for the outcome. Serving with a garlic mashed potatoe and a big glasses of milk. My kids are excited. They live a tender medium rare piece of beef. This was so easy to throw together and a nice quick Sunday night meal without a huge job!!! Thank you for the recipe.
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Thank you, Nici. 🙂
Carol says
Hi,
These look delicious and I’m looking forward to making them. Can I marinade overnight though? I would like to prep them the day before and toss in the oven when I get home the next day.
Thank you!
Carol says
*marinate
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Hi Carol! Thank you!
Yes, I certainly cannot see any reason why these cannot be marinated overnight. 🙂
Jessica says
This recipe was absolutely delicious! A new family favorite for sure! Thanks!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Thank you, Jessica. 🙂
Kimoria says
This was soooo simple and delicious. I made the marinade this morning and let my sirloin tips fridge thaw in the marinade all day so this was super easy to just throw in the oven when I got home. I was pleasantly surprised at how such simple ingredients gave it so much flavor…new favorite!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Thank you, Kimoria. Glad you liked it! 🙂
Stephanie says
Do you think sirlion tip steak would work as well as sirlion steak?
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Hi Stephanie, I think it will work, but the consistency of the meat will be different. Tip steak is a little tougher and I usually cook it slowly and for a longer period of time.
Donna says
Does it create a sauce or juices to serve with the meat?
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Hi Donna, no it does not.
E. Andrea says
I made this tonight and boy was it delicious. The only thing different I did was marinate the tips in a brown sugar bourbon marinade. It was a hit with the family! The tips had the same color as the photo. I will definitely make this again. I love simple, yet tasty recipes. Thanks!
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Yum – that sounds amazing!
alice hoskins says
I want to make this tomorrow. I have a a sirloin tip roast. I’m wondering if that cut is too tough for this recipe or is it the same type your using?
byronethomas@gmail.com says
I don’t think it would be too tough at all.
Julie says
I don’t have fresh parsley. Can I use dried?
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Yes, I think it would be a perfectly fine substitute. 🙂
Terezza says
I must’ve done something wrong! I dont think mine came out as good as everyone else’s. Didn’t look anything like the picture. 🙁
Mary Sorensen says
I have not made this yet, but I am a seasoned cook and not afraid to say I will dedicate an entire prime rib to this method. It looks delicious and may very well be my first post surgery meal. Thank you
Bhuboy says
This looks very delicious, though it’s my first time hearing the term beef tips, thanks for your explanation on what it is
Cathy says
Would it work if I didn’t cube the sirloin tips and left the strips of beef as is, marinated cooked?
byronethomas@gmail.com says
Yes, Cathy, I’m sure it would! 🙂 You might need to adjust the cooking time accordingly.
Beck & Bulow says
I cooked ther beef separate and first. I put it in a crock pot with beef broth and let it cook 4 hours. did not brown. it came out fall off the bone tender and delicious. I had my roomy chop the veggies. she’s very good at it and fast.,
Chris David says
This is absolutely delish! My son even commented on how good it is, and he rarely comments on supper. Tonight I’m making this again, but this time with a puff pastry top and please visit us: https://www.beckandbulow.com
mobasir hassan says
Truly appreciate the way you make this beef ribs. Everything is so nicely described that really helped me. Looking forward for more of such delicious recipes in future too.