Country Style Steak is a favorite meal in many homes in the South.
It is made with lightly battered cube steak that is cooked in brown gravy and onions until tender.
This recipe makes it from scratch easily in your Instant Pot or pressure cooker!
Typically, after frying, the cube steak is cooked in the oven for 2 or more hours; however with the Instant Pot, cooking time is reduced to less than 30 minutes!
What are the ingredients?
To make this tender, flavorful cube steak, you need the following ingredients:
- cube steak- cube steak is a cut of meat that has been run through a mechanical tenderizer machine. The name comes from the cube-shaped indentations made by the tenderizer.
- flour
- oil
- beef broth-you can use low sodium broth
- onion
- Lipton Onion Soup Mix
- Cream of Celery Soup- you can also use Cream of Mushroom Soup or Cream of Chicken Soup
Watch how to make Country Style Instant pot Cubed Steak
Steps to make
Here are steps for cooking the Instant Pot cubed steak.
- Cut the cubed steak into smaller pieces.
- After cutting the cubed steak, toss the meat into a ziplock bag filled with flour giving it a nice flour dust on all sides of the meat.
- Add oil to the Instant Pot. Cook steaks on the Sauté setting on each side until crust is brown and crispy (about 3 minutes a side).
- Set aside the steak.
- Deglaze the Instant Pot pan with some of the beef broth.
- Add onions and cook until tender.
- Return the steak to the Instant Pot.
- Add remaining ingredients and cook for 20 minutes on manual High setting.
Note: If you want larger pieces of cube steak, you can fry them separately in a larger pan.
However, if you are cooking everything in the Instant Pot (and why dirty another dish?) then you will cut the cube steak into smaller pieces when frying. The space around the meat to prevents touching and allows it to cook a crispy outer crust.
Can you freeze leftovers?
If you have leftovers, you can freeze country style pot cube steak.
Freeze in an airtight container.
Thaw out completely when you are ready to cook. Reheat in the oven, stove top, or microwave.
For more Southern recipes, check out:
- How to Cook Collard Greens
- Southern Slow Cooker Green Beans and Potatoes
- Instant Pot Southern Fried Cabbage
- Instant Pot Southern Hot Dog Chili
- Southern Cornbread Dressing
- Crockpot Vegetable Beef soup
- Chicken and Pastry
- Sweet Potato Casserole
- Instant Pot Gumbo with Shrimp and Sausage
- Banana Pudding
Please leave me a comment below if you make this Instant Pot Country Style Steak, tell me what you thought about it. I would love to hear back, and so would my readers.
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Country Style Instant Pot Cube Steak Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 lbs cube steak
- ⅓ cup flour
- 2 tbs oil
- 2 cups beef broth
- 2 onions
- 10.5 oz can cream of celery soup
- 1 dry package of Lipton Onion Soup mix
Instructions
- Cut 2 lbs cube steak into smaller pieces.
- Add ⅓ cup flour to ziplock bag.
- Add steak a few at a time to bag to flour meat.
- Add 3 tbs oil to Instant Pot. Turn on Sauté setting.
- Add cube steak in small batches to Instant Pot. Cook on each side until browned and crispy.
- Set cube steak aside. Deglaze bottom of Instant Pot with 3 tbs of the beef broth.
- Add 2 thickly sliced onions and cook them until tender.
- Return cube steak on top of onions.
- Mix remaining 2 cups broth, cream of celery soup, and Lipton onion soup mix.
- Add sauce mixture over the cube steak.
- Cook on Manual High for 20 minutes.
- Quick release pressure.
- Turn off Instant Pot and rest for 5 minutes. (This will thicken the gravy.) Serve over rice or with mashed potatoes.
Toni M Spurlock
I have a special tendency to find recipes that I want to make last minute and have to fudge some of the ingredients. My husband and I are on a low sodium diabetic diet so we have had to cut much of our fried foods way down. On this recipe I used whole wheat flour, cubed venison, salt free cream of chicken and salt free beef broth, beefy lipton onion soup and added celery seed. We served over rice cauliflower with oven roasted green beans. I have ro say that even I strayed so far from the prescribed recipe and kept getting the food burn message this was a divine idea! Thank you ssssssoooooooo much!
Joy
Fabulous. Cubed steak has always been a plan ahead meal in the crock pot. Now I can cook it quickly in the instant pot! The whole family loves it!
Michelle
This was delicious! I used Progresso cream of mushroom soup as it does not contain gluten. I would suggest also adding sliced mushrooms to the sautéed onions. I made this with gluten free flour and it came out perfect!
Dodi A.
I will keep this recipe forever. It was delicious. The gravy was delicious! Amazing!
Connie
Absolutely delicious my husband loves this. I am the picky one and I loved it as well. Made it as you instructed only change I added fresh mushrooms with the onions. Thank you so much. I have owned an Insantpot for about a year and didn’t use it because all the recipes I looked up were not appealing. So this will be a regular in our home.
Barbara
This is absolutely amazing. Love this dish. I have made it several times now. Definitely a keeper.
Krystal Robbins
Absolutely the BEST recipe for Instantpot I’ve tried! Home cooking at its best!!!
Valerie P
Made it tonight for supper . Big hit with the family, my son went for second.
Crystal
We loved this recipe! I made a few small adjustments: I had a pack of pork and one of beef cube steak. I cooked the meat in a skillet on the stove because my Instant Pot constantly gives me burn warning when I use sauté. I used Cream of Mushroom soup instead of Cream of Celery. And I used Better Than Bouillon to make my beef broth. Served it over long grain brown rice. It comes out with such deep, beefy flavor. Amazing!
Kathi
Made this last night. OMG was it ever good. Cooked it in my XL Power Pressure Cooker. Used 2 cups water + 2 tablespoons Better than Bouillon Beef Base. Cooked for 20 minutes, did natural release for 10. Served with Mashed potatoes and artichokes. Thank you so much for sharing,
BELINDA NORRIS
Delicious!:)
Cathy C
Found the recipe to be easy which I like. Used sauté per the instructions. I used 1 cup of water to deglaze since I didn’t have beef broth. Used the cream of chicken soup . I then did high pressure for 22 minutes and natural release for 10 minutes. I helped thicken the soup mixture for the gravy with a little corn starch and water. This will be made again! Thank you for a delicious recipe.
Lori
This was a big hit with my family!!! Easy and delicious! I used cream of chicken and it worked out great!!!
Katie Crenshaw
About 6 fills my Instant Pot. I have not tried to cook it in the crockpot, but it might be roomier. I am not sure. Sorry.
SANDRA
I have 16 cubes steaks. Is that too much to cook in a crock pot for this recipe?
Tara
I have made this several times now and my family loves it! I don't have the lipton soup pack this time so I am going to just mix up my own spices in place of it! I'm sure it will still be delicious!
Katie Crenshaw
Ann, yes, all purpose flour.
Ann
All purpose flour?
Sandie
Absolutely delicious! This will be a regular to our menu!
W woolard
Thank you so much for this recipe. It is so delicious. I have found that I can not sauté and deglaze the base and get it to work so I just do my steak then onions in a fry pan and add them to other ingredients to instant pot. Only one extra pan to wash. I’ve never made good gravy but this is so good. We use mushroom soup but I’m sure celery would be just as good. Thank you.