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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Recipe
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.
Doug Rapp
If you saute with flour,deglaze the pot with broth before loading it. The burned flour gives the notice of Burn. Use broth,wine,water whatever to deglaze the pot prior to cooking. Think it will solve all those problems.
Bernadette
My husband loved this! Thank you for the recipe. I too got a burn notice. I’m new to cooking with the instant pot, but I think I got the burn notice because the onions stuck to the bottom. Placing them directly on the the bottom of the pot, with the browned cube steak on top and then the gravy mixture set off the machine. Once I canceled cooking and opened the pot and stirred what was stuck to the bottom it went on just fine. Wonder if it would help if next time I mix everything after adding to the pot and before staring the cooking process? Would love any suggestions. Will definitely make again.
Luanne
I loved the flavors. I got a burn notice but we ate it anyway. The meat was done and fabulous.
P. Susan
OH, MY GOSH! This came out PERFECTLY. My husband loved it. This is a keeper. Thank you so much for sharing. I didn't have cream of celery soup, so I used cream of mush room instead. YUM! Everything was delicious; will be serving this to company soon. Thank you again!
Angela
I LOVE this recipe and have used it several times! Tastes just like Mom used to make but waaaayyy faster!! Thanks so very much for this!! YUMMY
Julie
This recipe was a HUGE hit at our house. I had to increase the poundage of meat to 3 pounds. Added another cup of beef broth. Made no other changes and it came out wonderful.
Julia Cornell
With a bigger family comes a bigger pot and doubling the batch. But it was still amazing! I tweaked it since I only had one can of cream of celery soup BUT I had a cream of onion soup, so I mixed them. Soooooo yummy! My instant pot gave me a worry, though. After reaching the pressure point, my pot beeped and read BURN. I ignored it at first but, when the pot shut off, I restarted it with medium heat instead of the recommended high heat. Still done in 20 minutes and no scorched bottom.
julie Mccarrin
I've made this recipe several times, and my hubby and I love it! I prepare it just a bit differently though. I don't saute the onions prior to cooking, as I find that they pretty much disappear into the gravy when I do. I also add some herbs de Provence or some Italian seasoning to the mix. But what really puts this dish over-the-top is the addition at the end of 1/2 a cup or so of my homemade Greek yogurt. You could use heavy cream or sour cream as well. The yogurt makes the delicious, herb and onion flavored gravy much more creamy and delicious!!
I mash the potatoes with a touch of butter and milk, and more of the Greek yogurt, adding in salt, pepper, and (my secret ingredient for mashed potatoes, white or cheese sauces, and sautéed mushrooms) a pinch of nutmeg.
I've made this for company as well, and it is always well-received!
Caryn Hopkins
Well...this a an excellent dinner!! My husband is from Arkansas and loves it! Definitely a keeper and am making it for the second time tonight. Thank you for this wonderful recipe. And go Instant Pot!
Kathy Anderson
I didn't have the exact ingredients on hand that you listed, so I had to improvise, but it turned out great. The meat was nice and tender and great flavor. Served with mashed potatoes and corn, it was delecious.
Teresa C
This was SOOO good and perfect flavors! I did not have Cream of Celery and substituted Cream of Mushroom, but worked just fine! Great recipe!! Its a keeper!
Oh, I have a 6qt and I used the electric skillet (because I LOVE to do dishes-not!) to brown up my full patties, and I just layered them (I think I had two layers); and it worked perfectly! Thanks for this recipe!!
Karen
I used your recipe as a guide based on what I had...used a can of beef broth and a can of French onion soup instead of the cream soup & onion soup mix. Cooking time was perfect and the steak was deliciously tender. I’ll have to shop better next time and follow your recipe exactly.
Katie
Yes. I layer mine! It will work fine. I hope you love it!!!! xoxo
Teresa C.
So excited to try this recipe this weekend! I have about 8 cubed steaks to cut up - is it ok to kind of layer / stack them up as it will more than cover the bottom of my 6qt IP. Thank you!
Gail
Finally! I can cook cubed steak that tastes like my Moms used to! Thank you so much for this recipe. It’s perfection.
Ann
This is my husband's favorite recipe of all that I have made in my Instant Pot. He requests it every week and wants leftovers for lunch the following day every time! He hates onions though so I leave them out. A winner in my book!
Carol
Excellent!
Carol
This is exactly how I wanted cube steak to turn out! I’m using your recipe for the second time in a week so I can share with my parents again—they loved it, too!
Terri Hill
Perfect! I didn't even have all the right ingredients and it still turned out perfect. Substituted the soup for additional thickened broth and it was just fine. This is a keeper.
Yvette
Delicious! I will definitely be making this again.