Blue cheese and steak are a match made in heaven, so why not make a rich and creamy Blue Cheese Steak Sauce to serve with a perfectly grilled steak? It is easy to make, packed with flavor, and a little goes a long way!
For more delish ways to enjoy steak, try my Flank Steak with Chimichurri Sauce, Best Quick Steak Marinade, Skirt Steak Marinade, Garlic Steak and Potato Foil Packs, juicy Sirloin Steaks with butter sauce, and Mushroom Steak Sauce.
Why This Recipe Works
Saucy Perfection: I personally think a sauce is the cherry on top of a perfect meal! I love a good steak sauce, like my peppery mushroom cream sauce. A sauce can truly add so much flavor without a ton of effort! So, the next time you make a steak dinner, you absolutely have to try making this easy blue cheese steak sauce recipe. It is creamy, tangy, and pairs perfectly with steak, potatoes and vegetables!
Easy to Make: You might not realize just how easy it is to make a homemade sauce like this one. You can make it in just about 20 minutes and it is seriously so worth it! And with just a handful of ingredients, you can have yourself a flavorful steak sauce that everyone will love!!
Ingredients
- Butter: Every good pan sauce starts with a knob of butter! This will bubble and get golden in the pan while you sauté the shallot.
- Shallot: This adds a lot of flavor and aroma! I like to chop mine pretty small so that it doesn’t change the texture of the sauce that much.
- Salt & Pepper: To taste!
- Heavy Cream: Heavy cream is key for a creamy sauce!
- Blue Cheese: Blue cheese crumbles will melt into the sauce seamlessly.
- Worcestershire Sauce: Worcestershire sauce adds a slight tang and extra umami flavor!
- Garlic Powder: I like to add a little garlic powder for some extra flavor as well.
- Chopped Chives: Top the sauce off with freshly chopped chives!
Here’s How to Make It
Step by Step Instructions
- Melt Butter & Sauté Shallot: Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over a medium heat. Add the shallot with a pinch of salt and gently cook for about 5 minutes until soft and just starting to color. (photos 1-2)
- Create Sauce: Splash in the apple cider vinegar and allow it to bubble for one minute before stirring in the heavy cream, half the blue cheese, Worcestershire sauce and garlic powder. Once the mixture is bubbling, allow to cool for 5 minutes so that the cheese melts and the sauce thickens. (photos 3-4)
- Add Remaining Ingredients: Remove from heat and stir in the remaining blue cheese and the chives. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and serve immediately! (photos 5-6)
Expert Tips
- For extra flavor, pan sear your steak in the same pan that you plan to make the sauce! You can keep the brown bits that come off the steak in the pan and they will end up adding loads of flavor to the sauce.
- For a thicker sauce, keep stirring and cook at a low simmer until the sauce has reduced slightly and thickened! If the sauce is too thick, add a splash of milk or even lemon for a slightly lighter flavor!
- Serve this blue cheese steak sauce with steak and potatoes and your choice of vegetable, or even pair this with leaner meats like chicken with garlic herb butter!
Frequently Asked Questions
Gorgonzola is a nice option because it is creamy and melty, and not as strong as other blue cheeses. However, any variation of blue cheese will work here and taste excellent!
To store, place in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. Reheat in a small saucepan!
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Blue Cheese Steak Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 banana shallot - finely chopped
- salt - to taste
- 4 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 6 oz blue cheese - crumbled and divided
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- black pepper - to taste
- 1 tbsp chopped chives
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over a medium heat. Add the shallot with a pinch of salt and gently cook for about 5 minutes until soft and just starting to color.
- Splash in the apple cider vinegar and allow to bubble for one minute before stirring in the heavy cream, half the blue cheese, Worcestershire sauce and garlic powder. Once the mixture is bubbling, allow to cook for 5 minutes so that the cheese melts and the sauce thickens.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the remaining blue cheese and the chives. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and serve immediately.
Notes
- For extra flavor, pan sear your steak in the same pan that you plan to make the sauce! You can keep the brown bits that come off the steak in the pan and they will end up adding loads of flavor to the sauce.
- For a thicker sauce, keep stirring and cook at a low simmer until the sauce has reduced slightly and thickened! If the sauce is too thick, add a splash of milk or even lemon for a slightly lighter flavor!
- Serve this blue cheese steak sauce with steak and potatoes and your choice of vegetable, or even pair this with leaner meats like chicken with garlic herb butter!
This is not cottage cheese pancakes!
No, it’s not. But I do have a cottage cheese pancake recipe. Is there a link that brought you here that needs to be fixed?
I clicked on cottage cheese pancakes and keep getting blue cheese steak sauce where can I get it ????
Made this last night with grilled steaks, asparagus snd mushrooms. It was absolutely delicious!!!
Oh my! This sounds divine! In addition to steak, if allowed to thicken a bit do you recommend it for a grilled burger spread? I’ve ordered blue cheese burgers, so when I saw this recipe the idea popped into my head.
There is a reference of white wine. No picture of wine with rest of ingredients. And. nothing noted about white wine in instruction or in the ingredient list at the end.
It was a mistake, sorry for the confusion. There is no white wine in the recipe.
This was so good! I didn’t have apple cider vinegar and subbed for red wine vinegar, and it came out so good! Served it over steak and herbed potatoes. Will definitely make it again.