If you're in the South, this instant pot cube steak recipe might be a favorite. If you haven't tried it, here's the recipe to replicate at home.
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 a brown gravy and onions until tender.
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!
Steps for cooking Instant Pot Cubed Steak
Here are steps for cooking the Instant Pot cubed steak in a jiffy.
- Usually, you do not cut the cubed steak into smaller pieces. If you are frying the cubed steak in a separate pan, you will not need to. 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 to fry them in the Instant Pot easily with space around the meat to prevent touching. The space prevents steaming the meat and allows it to cook a crispy outer crust.
- 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 and 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.
Country Style Cube Steak
Out comes some of the best country style pot cube steak you will ever eat. Serve it over rice or with a side of mashed potatoes. Can you say, Yum? Did you enjoy this country-style instant pot cube steak recipe?
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For more Instant Pot recipes, check out: Instant Pot Italian Beef Dinner, Instant Pot Southern Hot Dog Chili, and 15 Minute Instant Pot Salsa Verde Chicken.
Country Style Instant Pot Cube Steak Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 lbs cube steak
- 1/3 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 cube steak into smaller pieces.
- Add flour to ziplock bag.
- Add steak one at a time to bag to flour meat.
- Add oil to Instant Pot. Turn on Sauté setting.
- Add cube steak in 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 onions and cook them until tender.
- Return cube steak on top of onions.
- Mix remaining 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.
Karen Tolbert
Great recipe! The instructions were really easy which I appreciate. I typically don’t like when people comment with changes to the recipe ... however, I also have some exceptions. I only used half the amount of onion mix and I put the soup (half cream of mushroom and half cream of celery) on the top of the meat as one of the comments recommended. So tender, so tasty, so the meal you can show off with when family and friends come for dinner. Served with green bean casserole, carrots and mashed potatoes.
Thank you!
Ghulam Mohyudin
It was perfect the first time. I learned so much from you as well! Keep it up great post.
Mellie Davis
Fabulous recipe—my husband loved it. It’s his favorite meal, with mashed potatoes and green neans. Just a note—In order to prevent the dreaded “burn message”, I always put the liquid broth in first, lay in the meat, then pour the cream soup on top, without stirring it into the broth. When it’s done, I mix the gravy all together, put the top back on for a few minutes, and it’s good to go! This is wonderful flavor and so easy. Thanks so much!!!
Katie Crenshaw
Yes, Brandy. Lipton Beefy Onion Soup will be just as good!
Brandy
Could I use lipton beefy onion soup instead of Lipton onion soup
Roy Davis
Once my instant pot pressurized it would not start the count-down. Stayed at the "On" setting. I am assuming it was because the sauce was used as a liquid and it was too thick thus could not pressurize properly. Any thoughts? By the way, after 15 minutes of being on I depressurized and meat was still good and the sauce was excellent!
Jack
This was Delicious. I used Minute Steaks instead of cubed steaks. Came out tender and tasty, served with mashed potatoes.
A keeper!!!
Peggy L
I just made this recipe tonight. It’s awesome! Only thing I did different was added salt n pepper and a little garlic powder to the flour. And also used cream of mushroom soup instead of celery soup. And added a 4 oz can of sliced mushrooms. Cooked egg noodles on the stove, because I was tired and had been cleaning all day, and didn’t feel up to washing, peeling and cooked potatoes for mashed. Plus my hubby asked for them. Lol. Great recipe! Will definitely make again! Thx