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 says
Sorry about that Jack. Maybe you can inspire her by cooking dinner one night. A man that can cook is definitely a keeper.
Jack Hooten says
Yummm….I don’t really know how to cook…but these instant pot recipes tell ya what to do ..the bad side is,,,,,now my wife doesn’t feel the need to cook…
Tina says
Very delicious, made following instructions no problems. Meat was very tender and gravy was perfect over rice. Will be making again.
Tina says
I made the recipe exactly. No burn notice. Great gravy, cube steaks were fork tender. We will have this again.
Katie says
I honestly don’t know. I don’t get the burn notice. Maybe add in 1/4 of beef broth on the bottom of pan with onions? It might make the recipe a bit more soupy. If that is the case, you can turn on saute setting for a few minutes to thicken a bit, then turn it off and rest an additional 5 minutes to completely thicken. I wouldn’t add much more liquid though or it won’t be like a gravy anymore.
John Rockett says
We love this recipe. Melt in your mouth. I keep getting burn signal. Appears to be the onions sticking to the pot. After opening and scraping the bottom and resetting the pot, sure enough burn signal returns. Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Teri Jorgensen says
I made it a little different…..I seasoned the cube steak (I only had 2 small ones) with Montreal Steak seasoning then dredged them in flour and browned on saute. Removed the meat and poured in a bit of broth to deglaze the pan.then I pored in half a can of french onion soup mixed with a couple of tablespoons of dry onion soup mix and a little water. Then I put the trivet in and put the meat on it and poured the rest of the soup mixture on top. Then I put my steamer basket on top of the meat with small cubed potatoes. I HP for 10 minutes. I took the potatoes out and put them in a bowl. Then I put broccoli in the steamer basket and HP everything for 0 min while I mashed the potatoes. Took everything out and thickened the soup juices with a little flour slurry (using the left over flour from dredging the meat. Everything was perfect and tasted fabulous. Am I the only one that will cook everything separate i one pot? I just adjust the size of potatoes cubes for them meat cook time.
Katie says
There is not enough liquid for potatoes. I honestly would not know how to combine the two to make it turn out. Sorry.
Wendy Brewster says
Making this as I type. Could I add cut up potatoes in the future?
Or would they be too soggy from the gravy?
Pam Greer says
I love cube steak and I can’t wait to try it in the Instant Pot. It’s pure comfort food to me!
Eva says
I got an instant pot for Christmas and I’m a bit intimidated by it, as I did not own one before. I was never really into instant pot recipes before as I had no use for those, but now I do and I feel like a whole new world of cooking possibilities just opened up for me!
Hollie says
This was absolutely delicious. I made it exactly as written and it was perfect. Thanks for such a great recipe!
Doug Rapp says
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.
Katie says
It is the manual pressure button. There is an actual Manual button on my Instant Pot.
Bernadette says
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.
Jodi Walters says
Just a quick question….. I just received and instant pot for Christmas so I am learning how to use it. When you on manual high, are you meaning the meat button or do you mean the pressure cooker button?
Luanne says
I loved the flavors. I got a burn notice but we ate it anyway. The meat was done and fabulous.
Katie says
I am so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing!
P. Susan says
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 says
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