Name: Cube Steaks with Gravy
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 8 min
Ingredients: 1/3 cup all-purpose flour; 6 beef cube steaks (4 ounces each); 1 tablespoon canola oil; 1 large onion, sliced and separated into rings; 3 cups water, divided; 1 envelope brown gravy mix; 1 envelope mushroom gravy mix; 1 envelope onion gravy mix; Hot mashed potatoes or cooked noodles

Cube steaks and gravy are a hearty home-style dinner your family will love after a busy day. The slow-cooked beef is wonderful served over mashed potatoes or noodles. —Judy Long, Limestone, Tennessee

Cube Steaks with Gravy

all-purpose flour

beef

canola oil

onion,

water, divided

brown gravy mix

mushroom gravy mix

onion gravy mix

potatoes noodles

This is a epic house favorite! Finally a recipe that makes  usual hard to chew, tough, cubed beef that melts in the mouth. Being a southern who still has some teeth (😉😄), the cubed steaks are ever so tender. Great flavor!

LOVE THESE! So tender and flavorful! I used a combination of stock and water, with a splash of Maggi to pour over steaks; and added some heavy cream at the end after the gravy did it’s thing! I served with buttered egg noodles, but I’m sure they would also be delicious with mashed taters and corn. I will give that a try next time, since I will definitely be making this simple and delicious keeper, again.

Didn't like. Gravy packets gave it a off taste.

OMG this is so so good.  Add some mushrooms

I made this for dinner tonight and followed the recipe exactly. We really liked it. The meat was so tender and good even though I didn't cook it for 8 hours. When I make it again, I will use a smaller onion and cut the slices in half. I may also leave the lid off the crockpot for the last hour of cooking and watch it. Either that or cut back on the water used.

This was known as "Swiss steak" when I was growing up, and was a staple on our dinner table--my mom's recipe, however, had way less sodium that this one does, ie 4000 mg of sodium from the 3 packages of gravy mix. You can halve that by using a couple of beef bouillon cubes or tsp of bouillon granules, and some instant flour to thicken the gravy--which is one of the easiest things to make. If you want mushroom flavor, slice and add some, or whirl a few in your blender or food processor as part of the cooking liquid. I'm going to even go a step further--this recipe only takes 10 minutes prep and 30 minutes simmering on the stove top, so if you--like me--rarely have morning time to start the crock pot, it doesn't take all that long on the back end. Brown the steaks when you get in from work, throw the onions and water into the skillet, and simmer for half an hour while you put out the family fires and start the potatoes, and fix a veggie side and/or salad. Thicken the gravy a few minutes before you are ready to serve. I downstarred to 4 because of the packaged gravy mix with added sodium and about $3.50-$4 unnecessary cost.

I followed this recipe to the “T”. It was a hit!!! Jokingly, my husband said after making this, he’s going to keep me around a little longer. Lol!!

Im sorry this was the worst Country Style Steak I've ever had.  I should have listened to my intuition about using 3 different gravy packets which tend to give a wierd processed taste.  Because it was rated well I decided to give it a try.  I recommend skipping the processed gravy packets and just make your own gravy by making a roux and adding equal parts beef broth and milk (1% or 2% is ok) in the same skillet you browned the steaks in until moderately thickened.  Pour over steaks, cover with foil and bake on 300 degrees F. for about 2 1/2 to 3 hours.  If you think you liked this recipe as written, try it this way and you never make it with gravy packets again.

This is just old fashioned Braised Steak & onions

Great flavor and tender.  I could have cut the cooking time to 4 hours.  After 8 hours the steaks were more like mush.

This is exactly like my grandmother made for Sunday dinner when I was a kid! I've made it using the packets of gravy as well as making my own roux gravy and to me, there isn't much difference in taste. I do, howeve, use the whole mushroom and only half the brown and only half the onion mixes.  This is perfect served with mashed potatoes, veg and rolls.

I've made this several times, always delicious, a family favorite.  I use a low sodium gravy mix.  Have not found an artificial flavor or too much sodium.  I did try Janet's suggestions (Jul 21, 2019) the cube steaks were not tender in 30 minutes.  I'll stick with the original recipe.

I have made this several times, I've also passed this  recipe to several friends, one friend lost the recipe and after her 16 year old son asked for the dish she needed  the  recipe again, I was happy to help her out, everyone loves it, and I love all the recipes I get off  of TOH

I have made this recipe several times - both to the recipe and with my own changes based on what I had on hand.  This is a good recipe for the rotation of what's cooking this time of year.  Thank you for this recipe. :-)

Really good!  The beef was tender, the flavor was excellent.  And so easy!

This was really good.  The gravy mixes gave it a good flavor. My cube steaks broke apart which was ok.  We put a scoop on top on mashed potatoes and it was really good.  I also added a whole green pepper and a whole sweet onion.

I've made this recipe a number of times. Always comes out good.

Very easy and awsome. The whole family LOVED it! Definatly making again.

Wow!! Great way to make this meat tender.  I could not find mushroom gravy or onion gravy.  I used three packets of brown gravy, but bought fresh mushrooms, and cooked them on the stove, then added them when I added the gravy mix.  One thing--I did season meat and the flour mixture with garlic powder, salt, pepper, and some beef seasoning.  I also diced up some red bell pepper and some celery that needed to be used up.  We gobbled this up!!! Made a ton of extra gravy, so I froze the remaining gravy and will use for another meal.

Because I don't use bottled gravy, I saved the browning pan to make the gravy later.  Instead of adding water to the crock-pot, I used beef broth instead.  After the meat was tender, I removed it from the cooking juices.  In the frying pan, I added flour to the pan with a little more oil (if needed) to make a roux.  Then, I added the juices along with the onions and made a thickened gravy.  Salt and pepper to taste.  Return the meat to the gravy.  YUMMY!

Steak was very tender. Gravy was delicious over the steak and mashed potatoes!  Very easy.  This one is a keeper!

Cube Steaks with Gravy

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 8 hours, 30 minutes

Total: 8 hours, 45 minutes

Servings: 6

Author : Taste of Home

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