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.
Country Style Instant Pot Cube Steak Recipe
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!
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.
Out comes some of the best country Style instant 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? Let me know in the comments. Don’t forget to share the article with friends and family.
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
If you're in the South, this instant pot cube steak recipe might be a favorite.
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.
Yvette says
Delicious! I will definitely be making this again.
Katie says
I am so glad you liked it Yvette! You made my day! Thanks for letting me know.
Terri Hill says
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.
Carol says
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!
Carol says
Excellent!
Katie says
I am so glad you enjoyed it!! You made my week!!
Tammy says
Love the recipe in theory, any suggestions if you do not have an instant pot?
Katie says
I haven’t tried it this way, but I think you could cook everything the same in a large skillet. Then instead of cooking 20 minutes in the Instant Pot, place the steaks and the ingredients in a 9×13 baking dish and cover with aluminum foil. Bake at 350 for an hour to hour 1/2. I hope this works.
Ann says
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!
Katie says
I am so glad you enjoy this!! Thank you for sharing. This made my day.
Gail says
Finally! I can cook cubed steak that tastes like my Moms used to! Thank you so much for this recipe. It’s perfection.
Katie says
I am so glad you like the recipe, Gail! It is one of our comfort meals here at home also. xoxo
Teresa C. says
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!
Katie says
Yes. I layer mine! It will work fine. I hope you love it!!!! xoxo
Teresa C says
GREAT! I SO APPRECIATE YOUR SPEEDY REPLY!!
Dar says
I have 8 quart pot. I want to use 6 lbs of meat. Do I double or triple the rest od the ingridents?
Katie says
I think my Instant Pot is smaller… I really couldn’t be sure how 6 lbs would cook because I have never cooked a batch that big in or out of the Instant Pot. But I think doubling the additional ingredients would be more than enough. You might need more flour because you have to dust each piece of of meat with flour. Can you let me know how it turns out? I know this recipe is delicious with 2lbs of meat for sure.
Karen says
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 🙂
Teresa C says
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!!
Katie says
Thank you for letting me know. That makes me so happy! xoxo
Kathy Anderson says
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.
Katie says
I am glad you enjoyed it!
Trude says
Awesome recipe!
Tonya says
I’m making this now my husband doesn’t like a lot of stuff but sense he bought me my instant pot he likes different food’s now. Thank you
Julia Barbour says
If you make this recipe without the onions do you need to reduce any of the liquids?
Katie says
No. Keep everything else the same.
Lisa says
I kept getting burn notice 🙁 Maybe because I have an 8qt?
Katie says
I am not sure. I have never had a burn notice…. so don’t know the cause. I am sorry.
Bonnie says
Very good. I don’t have any onion and only cream of mushroom soup. Very tasty and tender. We had rice instead of potatoes. Will definitely fix again. Thank you
Katie says
I am so glad you enjoyed it!! Thanks for sharing.
Caryn Hopkins says
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!
Katie says
I am so glad you liked it!! Thank you for letting me know!! You made my day.
Debbie says
I have all the ingredients but only have 1 pound of cube steaks (just the two of us). Do I use the recipe as is or is there a way to reduce for 1/2 and amount of meat?
Katie says
You could halve the ingredients and I think it would be fine. You could also keep it the way it is and you will just have extra gravy for mash potatoes or rice. I am not sure if the gravy will be a little more thin or a little thicker because of the difference in meat…If it is thicker, I don’t think it will be bad. If it is thinner, what you could is remove the meat, turn on the saute setting, and simmer it for a few minutes until the gravy is thickened. Either way, it will still be good.