If you need a weeknight dinner for someone who craves red meat, cube steak in the Instant Pot is a great solution! Its fast, tender and full of flavor.
It is old fashioned comfort food, traditionally made in the oven. A slow cook time is typically needed to tenderize the cube steak.
But of course the Instant Pot makes it easier, faster, and just as tender.
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Why you'll love this Pressure Cooker Cube Steak
- A Comfort Food Classic: both hearty and nostalgic, this cube steak recipe with satisfy your cravings for a home cooked meal.
- Quick and Easy: using the Instant Pot means you'll produce deliciously tender meat in a fraction of the time of traditional methods.
- Budget Friendly: cube steak is a more affordable way to enjoy beef, to keep both your pocket and your family happy!
- Family approved: the tenderness of the meat and the familiar flavors makes this a hit with both kids and adults.
What is Cubed Steak?
Some say cube steak, others cubed steak. Either way, they are thin cuts of meat, usually sirloin or top round, which are flattened by pounding with a meat tenderizer. The name refers to the shape of the indentations left by that process. (Wikipedia)
Some people confuse cube steak with minute steak, but they are slightly different. Minute steak is cut even thinner and is not pounded to tenderize. It is called minute steak because it's thin cut ensures it cooks very quickly.
What you'll need for Instant Pot Cube Steak
- Cube (cubed) steak
- Cream of mushroom soup
- Beef consommé
- Mushrooms
- Onion
- Flour
- Olive oil
How to cook Instant Pot Cubed Steak
- To start, coat the steaks in flour. Then heat up a little oil in the Instant Pot and add the steaks. Brown on both sides. Do this a couple at a time and then remove the steaks to a plate until all are done.
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- Take a little water or broth and splash it into the hot Instant Pot. Stir to release all the brown bits on the bottom of the pan. This is called deglazing, and those brown bits are called "fond" but it more properly is spelled F-L-A-V-O-R. You want that flavor mixed into your sauce, not stuck on the bottom of the pot.
- Return the steaks to the Instant Pot and add the mixture of soups, mushrooms and onions.
- Set the Instant Pot cycle to cook on high for 20 minutes. When the cycle is done, let the pot depressurize naturally while you make your other dishes. Potatoes, noodles and rice are all excellent choices.
- The sauce as-is will be a little thin, and I prefer to thicken it some. To do this, simply mix some flour and water together to make a pour-able slurry.
- Remove the steaks from the Instant Pot, leaving the sauce behind. Turn on the sauté function. When the sauce begins to bubble, drizzle in some of the flour slurry, stirring constantly. Continue until the sauce is your preferred consistency.
More Delicious Meals from your Instant Pot
If you enjoy this meal, you might also want to try making old-fashioned Beef Stew or Pepper Steak in the Instant Pot.
In the mood for chicken? Try some Instant Pot French Onion Chicken or Chicken Stew.
The flavor and ease of the Instant Pot wins every time!
More Meal Ideas
If you love the wonderful mushroom-packed gravy in this meal, you must check out my baked pork chops and gravy. It's an old-fashioned recipe that bakes a long time in the oven, but nothing can beat that tender, fall-apart texture it gives to pork chops. A family favorite!
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Instant Pot Cube Steak
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Ingredients
- 2 pounds cube steak
- ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder (optional)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 10.5 ounce can beef consommé beef broth may be substituted
- 10.5 ounce can cream of mushroom soup
- 8 ounces white mushrooms sliced or whole
- Small yellow onion chopped (or ½ medium)
Instructions
- Combine mushrooms, soup, beef consommé, and onion in a bowl; set aside.
- Place flour with garlic powder, salt and pepper in a shallow bowl. Dip cube steak in the flour mixture to cover both sides. (save leftover flour)
- Set Instant Pot to Sauté and add oil.
- Add a couple steaks to hot oil and brown both sides. Remove and repeat with remaining steaks.
- Splash a little water or broth in the pot and scrape up the browned bits on the bottom, then return steaks to the pot.
- Pour the soup and mushroom mixture over the steak.
- Cover and seal. Cook on high pressure for 20 minutes, then allow to naturally depressurize.
- Remove steaks from Instant pot and check the sauce. If it seems too thin, add some water to the remaining flour from step 1 to make a slurry. Set Instant Pot to Sauté to heat the sauce. Once bubbling, stir and drizzle in flour slurry a little at a time until desired thickness is reached.
- Serve with rice, potatoes or noodles.
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Nutrition
Nutrition values are estimates only, using online calculators. Please verify using your own data.
Robin
This is my go to meal. Easy and fast. Great with egg noodles
Sula
Perfect!
Elaine
Thank you for sharing this recipe, it turned out great!
Sula
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
Sam
I love my instant pot and I’m always looking recipes to make in it. When I found your recipe I was excited to try it because I had some cube steak in the refrigerator. This was a delicious dinner recipe for my family. Mashed potatoes did Justice to it. Thanks.
Sula
Yum, I tend to make egg noodles with this but mashed potatoes sounds so good! I'll have to try that next time!