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!
"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." ★★★★★-Angela
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!
We love this classic comfort meal. I hope you love it too. Enjoy! Xoxo-Katie.
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Ingredient notes and substitutions
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-I love using olive oil for most of my cooking, however, I use vegetable oil or crisco in this recipe for the high smoke point.
- beef broth-If you are watching your salt intake, you use low sodium broth.
- onion
- Lipton Onion Soup Mix
- Cream of Celery Soup- You can substitute with Cream of Mushroom Soup or Cream of Chicken Soup.
*The full recipe is located at the bottom of the post in the recipe card.
Steps
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.
Watch how to make it
Frying tip
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.
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.
Also post your picture of your cube steak on Instagram or Facebook, and tag @aforkstale with #aforkstale hashtags! I will share with my followers! xoxo!
📖 Recipe
Country Style Instant Pot Cube Steak Recipe
Equipment
- 1 Instant Pot or Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 pounds cube steak
- ⅓ cup flour
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 3 tablespoons beef broth
- 2 onions
- 2 cups beef broth
- 10.5 ounces can cream of celery soup
- 1 dry package of Lipton Onion Soup mix
Instructions
- Cut cube steak into smaller pieces.2 pounds cube steak
- Add flour to ziplock bag. Add steak a few at a time to bag to flour meat.⅓ cup flour
- Add oil to Instant Pot. Turn on Sauté setting.3 tablespoons oil
- 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 tablespoons of the beef broth.3 tablespoons beef broth
- Add thickly sliced onions and cook them until tender.2 onions
- Return cube steak on top of onions.
- Mix remaining beef broth, cream of celery soup, and Lipton onion soup mix. Add sauce mixture over the cube steak.10.5 ounces can cream of celery soup, 1 dry package of Lipton Onion Soup mix, 2 cups beef broth
- 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.
Joy Bumala says
Great recipe, tender meat. Made this for 3 adults with mashed potatoes and zucchini bread with a side salad…was a hit. Will add to my keeper recipe folder.
Melissa says
The best cubed steak I’ve ever made! THANK YOU for this recipe; it’s a keeper. Meat was so tender and gravy spectacular! Love from Houston!
Ella says
Perfection! I did not get burn notice as some did. I made sure to mix my onions in with my liquid ingredients before adding back in my steak. And all I really did differently was to leave my steaks (4 of them) whole without cubing them and I used cream of mushroom soup instead of celery. Wow, what a great dish!!
Delilah says
I have been making this dish for 38 years as it is hubby’s favorite comfort meal. I have to say this was by far the best and easiest. The only thing I changed was using my homemade soup and only 1/2 pkg of onion soup as that is all I had on hand.
Linda Edwards says
I have made this recipe every way you can possibly make it and this is by far the best. I made with venison cubed steak and it’s delicious! Thanks for sharing
Stella says
Absolutely delicious! This is the only receipe I use for this dish.
Tara says
Do you know if I am able to do a half an order extra in the Insta Pot or am I going to have to resort to low and slow in Dutch oven?
Katie Crenshaw says
I am thinking you are asking can you do 1 and 1/2 times the recipe? You should be able to if you have the larger size Instant Pot. If you are asking if you can do 1/2 the recipe, you can do that in any size Instant Pot.
Hope says
This recipe was fantastic!! I didn’t have cream of celery, I had cream of mushroom. But this was just perfect. I loved every bite! Thank you for an awesome recipe
Joyce says
Very good! My daughter wants it for dinner every night!
Toni M Spurlock says
I have a special tendency to find recipes that I want to make last minute and have to fudge some of the ingredients. My husband and I are on a low sodium diabetic diet so we have had to cut much of our fried foods way down. On this recipe I used whole wheat flour, cubed venison, salt free cream of chicken and salt free beef broth, beefy lipton onion soup and added celery seed. We served over rice cauliflower with oven roasted green beans. I have ro say that even I strayed so far from the prescribed recipe and kept getting the food burn message this was a divine idea! Thank you ssssssoooooooo much!
Joy says
Fabulous. Cubed steak has always been a plan ahead meal in the crock pot. Now I can cook it quickly in the instant pot! The whole family loves it!
Michelle says
This was delicious! I used Progresso cream of mushroom soup as it does not contain gluten. I would suggest also adding sliced mushrooms to the sautéed onions. I made this with gluten free flour and it came out perfect!
Dodi A. says
I will keep this recipe forever. It was delicious. The gravy was delicious! Amazing!
Connie says
Absolutely delicious my husband loves this. I am the picky one and I loved it as well. Made it as you instructed only change I added fresh mushrooms with the onions. Thank you so much. I have owned an Insantpot for about a year and didn’t use it because all the recipes I looked up were not appealing. So this will be a regular in our home.
Barbara says
This is absolutely amazing. Love this dish. I have made it several times now. Definitely a keeper.
Krystal Robbins says
Absolutely the BEST recipe for Instantpot I’ve tried! Home cooking at its best!!!
Valerie P says
Made it tonight for supper . Big hit with the family, my son went for second.
Crystal says
We loved this recipe! I made a few small adjustments: I had a pack of pork and one of beef cube steak. I cooked the meat in a skillet on the stove because my Instant Pot constantly gives me burn warning when I use sauté. I used Cream of Mushroom soup instead of Cream of Celery. And I used Better Than Bouillon to make my beef broth. Served it over long grain brown rice. It comes out with such deep, beefy flavor. Amazing!
Kathi says
Made this last night. OMG was it ever good. Cooked it in my XL Power Pressure Cooker. Used 2 cups water + 2 tablespoons Better than Bouillon Beef Base. Cooked for 20 minutes, did natural release for 10. Served with Mashed potatoes and artichokes. Thank you so much for sharing,
BELINDA NORRIS says
Delicious!:)