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Slow Cooker Cube Steak is an easy crockpot dinner made with simple ingredients, simmered in a rich, savory gravy until the beef is fork tender and full of flavor.
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“I made this for my picky eater grandchildren and they loved it!! Made some mashed potatoes and green beans to go with it and there wasn’t any thing left over…………I’ll will without a doubt be making it again………….Loved it!!!”
– VERONICA
My Slow Cooker Cube Steak recipe gets rave reviews! My recipe has some shortcut ingredients, so it’s easy to throw together. The best way to get melt-in-your-mouth cube steak is to make it in the crockpot! I hope you give my tried-and-true recipe a try.
Key Ingredients
Cube Steak: This cut is naturally tougher, but the slow cooker helps it cook up fork-tender in the gravy.
Brown Gravy Mix: To jumpstart the beef gravy mix for the cubed steaks, you’ll want to use two premade gravy packs like this.
Beef Broth: Using water instead of broth will give it a more beefy flavor.
Golden Mushroom Soup: This soup is not only mushroom flavored, but also has a tomato notes.
Lipton Onion Soup Mix: A combination of dry onion flakes, onion powder, black pepper, celery seed, paprika, parsley, and beef bouillon granules for the perfect seasoning mixture.
How to Make Slow Cooker Cube Steak
- Add the cube steak and all ingredients to the crockpot.
- Let it cook low and slow until the beef is tender, and the gravy is rich.
- Stir and serve over your favorite side.
Tips & Variations
Soup Swap: Regular condensed cream of mushroom can be used in place of the golden mushroom. Cream of celery soup or chicken soup is another good substitute for this tender cube steak. This will make a country style gravy.
Add Veggies: Fresh mushrooms or sliced white onions can be added, but the gravy will be thinner, and you may want to add a cornstarch slurry at the end of cooking.
Defrost: Thaw frozen cube steak in the fridge overnight before cooking.
My Serving Suggestions
Pasta: The cubed steaks taste wonderful over a bed of egg noodles. Be sure to spoon some extra gravy over the top.
Other starches: You may enjoy this steak on top of mashed potatoes (try my slow cooker mashed potatoes), or steamed white rice is also a great choice to soak up all that gravy.
Top it off: And don’t forget the dinner rolls or cornbread, or add a fresh garden salad for some veggies.
How do I make this thicker?
Depending on how juicy your steaks are, you may want to thicken further. Make a cornstarch slurry of 2 tablespoons of cornstarch to 2 tablespoons of water, add to the finished dish and let cook for about 20 minutes longer on high.
Should I add Salt?
Do not add any extra salt, as the soup mix, gravy packets, and soup already contain sodium.
Slow Cooker Cube Steak Recipe
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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!
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
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I’ve made this numerous times. Excellent recipe with lots of yummy gravy. This time, I added five peeled and quartered gold potatoes, and they were awesome! Not usually a fan of packaged mixes, but these work great together. Easy recipe, big on taste. Thank you for another delicious main course.
I put this together in my new crockpot before going to get my Daughter from school. I had two big packs of cubed steaks & layered a pack & ingredients and then put the other pack of cubed steaks & ingredients over it. I eyeball things. After adding the last bit of beef broth I added onion powder & garlic powder and my sliced onions. I added a little bit of water too just to be safe since I would be gone awhile since my Daughter had a Dental Cleaning after school. As soon as we got home my Daughter said how good it smelled in here. I’m serving it over basmati rice with green beans. We did a taste test & it’s delicious & my 13 yr old Daughter said it’s yummy. I didn’t add any additional salt (wasn’t needed) I will definitely be making this again & again. Next time with the egg noodles. I like not having to fry the cubed steak. Thanks for the recipe. We it!!!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed this!
What if you don’t have onion soup mix.
Wow! Trust the recipe. This was super yummy. Served with peas and garlic bread. If you happen to be sensitive to salt, do use low sodium broth and soup. I did not and was delicious. The meat is so tender. Husband loved it.
I was in a hurry and put my minute steaks in frozen. Stirred and separated about half way through cooking. On low for 7 hours. Delicious and easy!
This was delicious. I served it with mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli. I used just 1 gravy packet. Thank you.
Can I sub liptons beefy onion pack? If so, should I use 2?
One should do it if you’re still using that gravy mix, if not, use 2.
Can I double this recipe?
Yes, you can double this with no problem.
This was delicious and because a few comments mentioned salty I went ahead and purchased the low salt packets for the gravy part. My store has store brand for 99c and I felt it was enough by the taste that it helped. The flavor of the gravy was really good and thickened nicely. This is so good over mashed potatoes! I will make this again, you can cut the meat with a fork.
This is very salty and we did not enjoy the gravy. I would suggest the the onion soup mix be replaced with a small yellow onion sliced in half and then cut into half moons slices. Find a low sodium beef stock or use just water. The soup and the gravy mix has all the salt that you would ever need for this dish.
Would this work with jar gravy? All the packets have milk and I can’t have that.
Yes, it would!