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.
Katie Crenshaw says
Yes. I would adjust all ingredients to x1.5 because you are adding an additional pound of meat. To keep things easy though, you could double all of the other ingredients. You would just end up with more gravy….
Shelly says
If I use 3 lbs of the meat should I use more liquid in the instant pot?
Katie Crenshaw says
I would love to get my hands on some venison. That does sound amazing! Thanks for sharing, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Thompson says
My husband just raves over this recipe. We use venison and it is delicious and tender.
Katie Crenshaw says
I slice them.
fred smith says
how do you prepare the onions, slice, chop, dice, whole????
Stephanie says
Very good! I did modify to my families taste and used cream of mushroom instead of cream of celery.
Sherree Bolton says
It’s the best I’ve had in a long time. Thank you for the recipe.
B says
Love it! It’s not Grandma’s country style steak but it IS a different awesome. I’m just learning with my pot and it is my favorite meat yet!
Gary Vinzant says
This recipe is very good & the cube steak was fork tender the only change I made was I used cream of mushroom instead of cream of celery! I will make this many times in the future I’m sure!!
Joyce says
Oh my word! This was so yummy! The meat was tender and the flavor of the gravy was perfect with mashed potatoes. My family asked me to put it in the rotation!
Jackie York says
This was so delicious!. We adjusted the recipe to make it Whole 30 by substituting a can of coconut cream for the cream of celery soup, and added fresh mushrooms.. Arrowroot powder for the flour. Our mashed potatoes were seasoned with ghee; salt & pepper, and thinned with almond milk. I can’t imagine it tasting any better! Will definitely make this again! Thank you for the recipe!
Darin says
I really liked this. The meat was really tender. I never have good luck with gravy, but this worked out well. Just the right thickness. I do recommend salt and pepper on the meat first. I also got a burn notification, so I opened it and stirred. That solved it. This is going on my “tried and liked” board.
Tabatha L says
I am rarely inspired to leave a comment, but this is the best instant pot recipe I’ve ever used! My family is in love!!! I did get a burn notice the first time I set the pot, but that was because the lid didn’t seal properly. I opened the lid, scraped the bottom with a wooden spoon and set it for 15 minutes. Fork tender is an understatement!! I now absolutely have to add this to our weekly must have!! Thank you so much for the recipe!