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Instant Pot Cube Steak with Onion Gravy is a tasty meal. The cubed steak comes out fork tender, and the onion gravy is delicious! Pressure cooker cube steak with onion gravy is a perfect weeknight dinner that the family will enjoy.
Instant Pot Cube Steak with Onion Gravy
Today I’m sharing another retro classic meal from my childhood. The difference is that I’m making this Cube Steak recipe in the Instant Pot® electric pressure cooker!
It’s nice to have a meal of comfort food that everyone will eat. When cubed steak is cooked in the pressure cooker, the meat is so tender you can cut it with a fork!
The savory onion gravy is yummy, and perfect for pouring over some mashed potatoes or cooked hot rice.
What is Cube Steak?
Cube steak (or cubed steak) is a cut of tough beef, often top round or top sirloin, that has been manually or mechanically tenderized.
This is a process that flattens the meat and leaves a characteristic pattern of small indentations on the surface (cubing).
Cubed steak is sometimes called “Minute Steak” as this thin steak is fast cooking.
The reason for cubing the meat is that these are tougher cuts, but also because it stretches out the amount of servings you can get from a cut.
Making Instant Pot Cube Steak is easy!
Here are the steps to a fantastic meal of cubed steak:
After browning the cube steaks, you will remove them to a plate while you brown the onion. Here are the cube steaks before spreading the soup over them. They are not fully cooked at this point, only browned.
Adding the soup last, and not stirring it in, will ensure that you have plenty of thin liquid (beef broth is in there) to bring the pot to pressure, and avoid the burn message!
Serve these tasty pressure cooker cube steaks with mashed potatoes, rice, or even mashed cauliflower. Yum!
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Instant Pot Cube Steak with Onion Gravy
Equipment
- 6 qt or 8 qt Electric Pressure Cooker
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup Flour
- 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt (or ½ tsp table salt)
- ½ teaspoon Pepper
- 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 4 Cube Steaks (about 6 oz ea.)
- 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
- 2 Tablespoons Butter, unsalted
- 1 lg Onion, cut in half, then sliced thick
- 1 (14 oz) can Beef Broth, low sodium
- 1 (1 oz) packet Onion Soup Mix
- 1 (10.5 oz) can Cream of Mushroom Soup, condensed (low sodium, if possible)
Instructions
- Mix together the flour, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Spread the mixture out on a plate or shallow dish.
- Coat both sides of the cube steaks in the flour mixture (dredge). Gently shake off the excess. Set the steaks aside.
- Turn on the Sauté setting. When it is hot, add the oil.
- Brown 2 of the cube steaks on both sides, but don't cook all the way through. Do this again for the remaining two. Set aside.
- Add the butter to the pot and then add the onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, scraping the bottom of the pot to loosen the browned bits (fond), until they are softened, but not completely cooked (still a little firm). Use a splash of the broth if needed to soften the fond.
- Stir in the beef broth, and scrape the bottom of the pot to get up all of the remaining browned bits.
- Add the cube steaks back in on top of the onions.
- Sprinkle the onion soup mix over the steaks.
- Spread the cream of mushroom soup over the steaks.
- Close the lid and set the steam release knob to the Sealing position.
- Turn off the sauté setting.
- Press the Pressure Cook/Manual button or dial, then the +/- button or dial to select 15 minutes. High Pressure. The pot will take several minutes to come to pressure.
- When the cook cycle has finished, turn off the pot and let it sit undisturbed for 10 minutes (10 minute natural release). Then turn the steam release knob to the Venting position to release the remaining steam/pressure.
- When the pin in the lid drops back down, open the lid.
- Remove the cube steaks to a serving platter.
- Stir the onion gravy. It shouldn't need thickening, but if it does, you can turn on the sauté setting and stir in a corn starch slurry (1 Tbsp corn starch and 1 Tbsp cold water mixed together). Stir as it thickens and then turn off the pot.
- Serve over mashed potatoes, rice, or mashed or riced cauliflower.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I have a 3 quart Instant Pot. Would I just half the ingredients? This sounds delicious and I really want to make.
Yes, but keep the cook time the same.
My wife is still working these days and I am semi-retired. She cooked so many meals for us in the past and now it is my turn to cook for her. I must admit Sandy, that I have been making your Instant Pot recipes for a couple of months now but have as yet to comment on any of them. I keep thinking there will be one which we do not like. I doubt that will ever happen. I find I have enjoyed using the Instant Pot but my wife and I enjoy the results of your recipes much, much more. I believe I have cooked a couple o dozen of your recipes and have never ever been disappointed in any of them. This cube steak recipe is fantastic for utilizing “tenderized” cuts of beef. The look on my wife’s face as she now relaxes before I serve the meal is priceless. Thank you Sandy. Thank you, Thank you. I love your Instant Pot cookbook. But I still like to surf over to your website to double check a recipe and to get your remarks on those recipes.
May God Bless You!!
-Wayne
Amazingly delicious recipe!
I’m going to enjoy this over some rice with peas and carrots. Added sliced mushrooms to the onions. Yum. More than fork tender. Just amazing.
I made this exactly as the recipe stated…melt in your mouth steak and superb gravey. Thanks for this delicious meal!!
This is the Best recipe for cube steak ever! Most of my large family don’t like large onions so I chop them up and chop up extra mushrooms and the family can’t get enough. Love this recipe, Thank you!
Can I double this recipe. Have a large family.
Yes! Keep the cook time the same.
My husband is very leery of “new things” like cubed steak in the ip. He loves this and wants it on regular rotation now!
Good for him for branching out! I know it can be difficult for some folks to try new foods.
Will these instructions/cook time be the same for a ninja foodi?
Yes
Wife does not like onions so can I substitute mushrooms for the onions?
Sure can!
My family loved this recipe! I followed it exactly, added a nice dish of mashed potatoes and some bread. We almost licked the pot.. lol
I’m making it again today for Sunday dinner. By far the best cube steak recipe I have found. I buy my cube steaks from a local family farm and following your recipe makes them perfect! And I don’t even like cream of mushroom soup..