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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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Would this work with pork cutlets instead of cube steak?
It may be really good! And if you used pork gravy mix.
Beef broth or beef stock? Which one should I use? They are both mentioned in this article. Thank you.
My gravy has a lot of grease on top! Any suggestions?
For any crockpot recipe that has grease on the top just lay paper towels over it and remove.
With some tweaks, this was great and simple! I cut ingredients in half due to my pk of meat being 1.19 lbs. First I thinly sliced half a white onion, 1/3 of a green bell pepper sliced thin and about 3/4 cup chopped portabella. sauted for about 4 mins and added about 2 tsp minced garlic (we love garlic lol) and sautéed for another 30 seconds. At this point I put half of that on the bottom of my crockpot and layer the steaks on it. Seasoned with thyme, rosemary, salt, and pepper. Played the rest of the sauté veggies on top. I whisked all the sauce ingredients in a bowl first and pored on top. Splashed about 2 tsp’s worth of Worcestershire sauce around the top and closed it up cooking on high for 4 hrs! AMAZING!!! so all in all a GREAT BASE TO START WITH and cook time was on point!! Served with mash potatoes and sweet peas! Thanks tons!
So you didn’t make the recipe. Why comment?
I AGREE. I DON’T KNOW WHY PEOPLE DO THIS.
Can I half this recipe? It’s just my husband and I. I also only have 3 cube steaks.
I don’t see why not! I have not tested it, but I think it would work fine
I love to hear all the different things to people did to the recipe, so I can incorporate any ideas that sound good to me !
Nice recipe! For sodium sensativity:
I use powder beef stock with water of course – 2 cups, and sauteed one large onion. I brown my meat after lightly flouring/spice mix….
Then make a gravy with flour, the stock, and little
water to consistency I like….adding the meat pieces back into the gravy, then top with potatoes, carrots and lightly sauteed onions.
I control the sodium this way since both my
dad and I are sodium sensative. So no cream soup and no packets of onion soup mix for us.
Thank you for your recipe! Will be tasty!!
Tried this one this week. It came out well. Would recommend using low sodium beef broth, and gravy packets if you’re concerned about sodium.
Can I put sweet potato chunks on the bottom then the cube steak on top of that, to the cube steak have to be submerged in a liquid?
I would do the opposite if it was me. The sweet potato chunks will still steam up nice on top.
Love this recipe because it’s so easy. I use low sodium gravy mix to help lower the sodium. I also started adding 1/2 – I can of petite diced tomatoes (low sodium) and cutting back on the broth. Makes the gravy rich and delicious.
Used Swiss steak for mine. Shredded the left overs and added it, along with the gravy to my left over noodles for lunch the next day!
Can I use cream of chicken we don’t like the cream of mushroom
Yes, that will work just fine.