These Air Fryer Steak Tips are juicy, flavorful, and incredibly easy to make. Perfectly seasoned steak cubes cook quickly in the air fryer, creating crisp edges and tender centers in minutes. It's a steakhouse-style dinner that comes together faster than takeout.
Recipe Essentials
- 🍽️ Course: Main Course
- ⏱️ Cooking Time: 8-10 minutes
- 🍴 Servings: 3-4
- 🧄 Flavor Profile: Savory, garlicky, smoky steakhouse flavor
- 🍚 Best Served With: Roasted potatoes, rice, Greek pasta salad, or vegetables
- 🧊 Make Ahead?: Yes, great for meal prep
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With only a handful of ingredients and a short cook time, this recipe is perfect for busy weeknights. If you love quick dinners with big flavor, air fryer steak bites will quickly become a go-to recipe.
This was inspired by my tri tip steak recipe and crock pot steak bites on this site, and pairs well with this creamy cucumber salad or old fashioned cucumber salad.
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Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Quick dinner solution: Steak tips require a few pantry staples and cook in about 10 minutes making them perfect for busy evenings.
- Juicy and tender steak: The air fryer locks in bold steakhouse flavor for perfectly tender steak bites that both kids and adults enjoy.
- Versatile meal option: Serve with vegetables, potatoes, rice, or salad.
How to Make Air Fryer Steak Tips
This recipe uses a handful of basic ingredients that combine to create flavorful steak bites with a perfect golden crust.
- Sirloin tip steak: Lean steak that becomes tender when cooked quickly in the air fryer.
- Olive oil: Helps the seasoning stick and encourages browning.
- Kosher salt: Enhances the natural flavor of the beef.
- Garlic powder, Onion Powder, Smoked Paprika and Black Pepper: Classic steakhouse seasoning.
- Parsley or butter: Optional finishing touches that boost flavor. Sprinkle with parsley or toss in meled butter before serving.
See the recipe card below for the exact quantities of each ingredient.
Variations
- Spicy steak tips: Add cayenne pepper, chipotle powder or chili flakes to the seasoning.
- Herb steak tips: Add dried thyme or rosemary for more flavor.
- Add Sauce: Toss steak cubes with teriyaki, barbecue, honey hot sauce or honey garlic sauce before cooking for a change instead
- Lemon pepper steak tips: Use lemon pepper seasoning instead for a bright flavor.
How to Make Air Fryer Steak Tips
Making air fryer steak tips is incredibly simple and requires only a few quick steps. Preheat air fryer to 400°F for 3-5 minutes.
Pat steak cubes dry with paper towels and place in a large bowl.
Add oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, smoked paprika, and onion powder or use 1-1 ½ tablespoons of our steak seasoning blend instead. Toss until evenly coated.
Arrange steak tips in a single layer in the air fryer basket. Cook in batches if needed.
Air fry for 8-10 minutes, shaking the basket halfway through, until browned and cooked to desired doneness.
Transfer steak tips to a plate and let rest for 3 minutes before serving.
Recipe Tips
- Storage: Store in an airtight container in your fridge for up to 3 days and easily reheat steak in the air fryer when needed. Freeze cooked steak tips for up to 2 months.
- Make Ahead: Steak cubes can be seasoned a few hours before cooking.
- Cut evenly sized cubes: Uniform steak pieces cook evenly.
- Cook to medium for best texture: Overcooking can make sirloin tip steak dry.
- Use high quality steak: Good beef improves flavor and tenderness.
- Add butter after cooking: Tossing hot steak tips in a tablespoon or two of melted steak butter or bacon butter to enhances flavor before serving.
- Best cut of steak for steak tips: Sirloin tip steak is lean and cooks well when cut into cubes but ribeye, strip steak, or sirloin also work well.
If you love recipes like this, you may also enjoy barbecue steak tips and garlic butter steak bites.
Serving Suggestions
- Serve with steakhouse baked potatoes or volcano potato
- Serve with your favorite pasta
- Pair with roasted broccoli and carrots or spinach rice
- Make a steak caesar salad or Mediterranean rice salad
- Serve with sauces like chimichurri or steak sauce.
- Pair with mashed potato casserole
- Add to fajitas or wraps
- Serve with slow cooker corn on the cob or air fryer corn on the cob
Recipe FAQs
Yes, bake at high heat on a sheet pan.
Overcooking lean steak can make it tough.
No, the seasoning blend adds plenty of flavor.
Use a thermometer: 135°F for medium rare and 145°F for medium.
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Air Fryer Steak Tips
Ingredients
- 1½ - 2 pounds sirloin tip steak cut into 1½-inch cubes
- 1½ tablespoon olive oil or avocado oil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon onion powder optional
Optional garnish
- fresh parsley
- butter
Instructions
- Preheat air fryer to 400°F for 3-5 minutes.
- Pat steak cubes dry with paper towels and place in a large bowl.
- Add oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, smoked paprika, and onion powder or use 1-1 ½ tablespoons of our seasoning blend instead. Toss until evenly coated.
- Arrange steak tips in a single layer in the air fryer basket. Cook in batches if needed. Do not over-crowd the basket for best results.
- Air fry for 8-10 minutes, shaking the basket halfway through, until browned and cooked to desired doneness.
- Transfer steak tips to a plate and let rest for 3 minutes so juices redistribute before serving. Garnish as desired.
Notes
- Storage: Store in an airtight container in your fridge for up to 3 days and easily reheat steak in the air fryer when needed. Freeze cooked steak tips for up to 2 months.
- Make Ahead: Steak cubes can be seasoned a few hours before cooking.
- Seasoning: Use 1-1 ½ tablespoons of our seasoning blend instead.
- Cut evenly sized cubes: Uniform steak pieces cook evenly.
- Cook to medium for best texture: Overcooking can make sirloin tip steak dry.
- Use high quality steak: Good beef improves flavor and tenderness.
- Add butter after cooking: Tossing hot steak tips in a tablespoon or two of melted steak butter or bacon butter to enhances flavor before serving.
- Best cut of steak for steak tips: Sirloin tip steak is lean and cooks well when cut into cubes but ribeye, strip steak, or sirloin also work well.
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