Description
Crock Pot Cube Steak is a comforting and hearty slow-cooked meal featuring tender cube steaks simmered in a savory mushroom gravy with onions. Perfect for an easy, hands-off dinner, this recipe combines simple ingredients for a melt-in-your-mouth beef dish served best over mashed potatoes, rice, or noodles.
Ingredients
Scale
Meat
- 4 cube steaks
Sauce and Seasoning
- 2 (10.5 oz) cans cream of mushroom soup (or cream of celery or chicken)
- 1 cup beef broth
- 3 Tablespoons homemade beef bouillon powder (or 1 packet onion soup mix)
Vegetables
- 1 large red onion, minced (white or yellow onions work as well)
Instructions
- Prepare the onion base: Small dice the onion and spread it evenly in the bottom of your slow cooker insert. This will form a flavorful base for the cube steaks.
- Layer the cube steaks: Lay the cube steaks directly over the diced onions in the slow cooker, ensuring they are arranged evenly.
- Add seasonings and broth: Sprinkle the homemade beef bouillon powder or onion soup mix over the steaks. Pour the beef broth on top, distributing it evenly.
- Combine the soups: Add both cans of condensed cream of mushroom soup. Use a fork to gently mix the soup and bouillon powder together; it does not have to be fully blended as they will meld during cooking.
- Slow cook the meat: Cover the crock pot with its lid and set the heat to low. Cook for 6 to 8 hours until the cube steaks become tender and easily pull apart.
- Make the gravy: Once cooking is complete, remove the steaks from the crock pot. Use an immersion (stick) blender to puree the onions and sauce left in the pot until thickened and smooth, creating a rich gravy. Alternatively, blend in a regular blender or serve as is for a thinner sauce with onion chunks.
- Serve: Plate the cube steaks and ladle the onion gravy over them. Serve over mashed potatoes, rice, or noodles with your favorite vegetable sides for a complete meal.
Notes
- This dish pairs wonderfully with creamy mashed potatoes, egg noodles, or rice, soaking up the delicious gravy.
- The slow cooker method makes this recipe perfect for busy days—set it in the morning, and dinner is ready when you come home.
- Onion soup mix can be used as a convenient substitute for homemade beef bouillon powder.
- Leftover gravy can be refrigerated and served with other meals or reheated as a sauce.
- Adjust cooking time slightly depending on your slow cooker model and steak thickness to achieve melt-in-your-mouth tenderness.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 321
- Sugar: 2.3 g
- Sodium: 1768 mg
- Fat: 13 g
- Saturated Fat: 3.1 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9.9 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 13.4 g
- Fiber: 2.2 g
- Protein: 35.7 g
- Cholesterol: 86.5 mg
