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This Slow Cooker Cube Steak is the perfect comfort food dinner made with just five ingredients. A savory gravy is made from brown gravy mix, beef broth, golden mushroom soup, and a flavorful onion mix. The cube steak cooks to fork tender in just a matter of hours. Add this easy recipe to your next meal plan!
This Slow Cooker Salisbury Steak is another steak and gravy recipe that’s a quick and easy and packed with lots of flavor. You may also like Slow Cooker Steak Bites.
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How do you make cube steak so it’s not tough?
There are several ways to cook cube steak so it isn’t so tough. One of the most popular is using a crock pot and slowly cooking it in a gravy. In this crockpot cube steak recipe, we use a combination of gravy mix, beef broth, and a condensed soup to create a gravy recipe that is sure to make the cube steak tender.
Recipe Ingredients
- Cube Steak: This meat is naturally tougher because it’s typically cut from a cow’s shoulder or hind end. It’s also put through a tenderizer before packaging; hence, why it has the indentions.
- Brown Gravy Mix: In order to jumpstart the beef gravy mix for the cubed steaks, you’ll want to use two premade gravy packs like this.
- Beef Broth: Whereas water would be mixed with the gravy packet, using the broth will give it more of a beef flavor.
- Golden Mushroom Soup: This soup is less thick in texture than regular cream of mushroom soup and also tomato puree in addition to mushrooms and beef stock.
- Lipton Onion Soup Mix: A combination of dry onion flakes, onion powder, black pepper, celery seed, paprika, parsley, and beef bullion granules for the perfect seasoning mixture.
Step-by-Step Directions
Step One – Place cube steaks into the slow cooker.
Step Two – Sprinkle on the lipton onion soup mix.
Step Three – Pour over the remaining wet ingredients and brown gravy packets.
Step Four – Cover and cook cube steak on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 6-7 hours. Serve with a few suggestions below and enjoy!
How to serve
- The cubed steaks taste wonderful over a bed of egg noodles. Be sure to spoon over some extra gravy on top.
- In addition to egg noodles, you may enjoy this steak with a side of Slow Cooker Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, or Jalapeno Mac and Cheese. You can actually put the crock pot cubed steak on a bed of mashed potatoes or steamed white rice.
- This is also delicious, served with extra sauteed mushrooms and onions over top.
- And don’t forget the dinner rolls or cornbread!
Recipe FAQs and Variations
It is best to let the frozen cube steak defrost to room temperature before cooking. Place cube steak in the fridge overnight to defrost.
If the gravy has not thickened, remove from the slow cooker and add to a sauce pot. Bring the gravy to a boil and then lower to a simmer. Let simmer for 5 minutes until thickened.
Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days in the refrigerator, reheat in the microwave.
Regular condensed cream of mushroom can be used in place of the golden mushroom. Cream of celery soup or chicken soup are other substitutions that pair well with this tender cube steak recipe.
Do not add any extra salt, as the soup mix, gravy packets and soup all have sodium in them.
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Slow Cooker Cubed Steak
Ingredients
- 1 ½ lbs. cubed steak, about 6 pieces (can use up to 2 lbs.)
- 1 packet onion soup mix, (I used Lipton)
- 2 oz. brown gravy mix, two 1 oz. packets (I used McCormick)
- 21 oz. condensed golden mushroom soup, two 10.5 oz. cans
- 1 ½ cup beef stock, or water
- parsley for garnish, optional
Instructions
- To the slow cooker, add the cubed steak, onion soup mix, brown gravy mix, condensed mushroom soup, and pour the beef stock over everything. Lightly mix and cook on HIGH for 4 hours or LOW for 6-7 hours.
- Carefully stir and serve over desired side such as egg noodles, rice or mashed potatoes. Garnish with fresh parsley if desired. Enjoy!
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Sarah’s Notes
- If the gravy has not thickened, remove from the slow cooker and add to a sauce pot. Bring the gravy to a boil and then lower to a simmer. Let simmer for 5 minutes until thickened.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days in the refrigerator, reheat in the microwave.
- Regular condensed cream of mushroom can be used in place of the golden mushroom.
- Can be served over mashed potatoes as well.
- Do not add any extra salt, as the soup mix, gravy packets and soup all have sodium in them.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
I’m cooking it now, since my wife passed away from brain cancer I’ve been cooking for myself using easy/simple recipes like this one, hopefully this one is a keeper
I think you’ll love it. I’m so sorry about your wife!
Do you use water with the soup or just can soup
Just the soup. 99.9% of the time, don’t add water with condensed soups in the slow cooker.
But the recipe calls for 1 ½ cup beef stock or water.
I’m confused.
Right, don’t add what the can says in addition.
Can I add onions in with onion soup mix?
Yes, that will work great.
When doubling the recipe, are the cooking instructions the same? Or should I use two crock pots? Just got all the ingredients, excited to try!!
You can do in one crockpot!
Can’t have mushroom soup what other soup can be used.
Cream of celery is always a good choice.
I’ve made this a couple times but briefly sautéed 8 oz of fresh mushrooms (just enough to soften a little and brown) then add them in. It’s delicious! Can you freeze any leftovers? If so, how would you reheat in the oven (temp and time)?
Hi! You can freeze this. I don’t have oven reheating instructions; I apologize! I usually reheat each serving in the microwave.
One part of the recipe calls for 4 hours on high or 6-7 hours low. In recipe towards bottom calls for 4 hours on low or 6-7 on high. Which is correct?
It’s 4 hours on high or 6-7 on low.
Super easy and great taste. Added sliced mushrooms and served over egg noodles with green beans on the side.
Cooking mine now , smells delicious. Can’t wait till it’s ready
I made this last night for dinner, using four medium sized cube steaks. Added a couple cups of peeled, cut up red potatoes. Wow! Delicious, with lots of sauce, and oh so tender. Was concerned that the taste might be off because of the packaged gravy and onion soup, but the flavor was right on. I have a couple cups of sauce and some steak leftover to which I will add some thickener for gravy and serve as a second meal over garlic mashed potatoes. No need to brown the steaks before cooking, which is something I would do ordinarily. It’s not called for in the recipe, and it doesn’t need that extra step. Thank you for another great and easy crockpot recipe.
Amazing!
My favorite recipe. Easy and good.