Our easy slow cooker cube steak recipe is a great dinner smothered with rich mushroom gravy and onions. Served with rice or noodles it's a yummy family friendly meal. Once you fall in love with this, give our air fryer cube steak a whirl too.

Slow cooker cube steak ingredients: ground beef, an onion, parsley, two cans of soup, and onion soup mix on a white wooden surface.

Looking for a new family friendly meal? Try our slow cooker cube steak with mushroom gravy this week, let us know what all of you think of this comfort food! It's one of our newest easy Crockpot recipes We make almost every month it's so good.

Did your mom cook Crockpot steak too growing up too? Maybe because it was so cheap, or because it was so good..we had this one pretty darned often.

Pure comfort food if you ask us, that is so tender you can cut it with a fork. When it comes to slow cooker beef recipe ideas we all love this is high on the list. Below is how to cook them thawed, we have another frozen cube steak recipe here if yours aren't.

Let's talk a little bit about slow cooking shall we?? First off we have a few different varieties and we love them all. Each one has an occasion to be used like….

This is our favorite 6 quart programmable one with a locking lid so it's great for bringing to a potluck too.
We prefer not to use liners, but rather spray olive oil inside before adding our food for easier cleanups.

Let us give you a peek of our pretty thang we bought recently. It goes with our kitchen so we can leave it out on the countertop all the time.

A floral design slow cooker with a white base and lid sits on a kitchen countertop, solid for whipping up a 5 ingredient crockpot chili recipe.

How Long to Cook Cube Steak in Slow Cooker

The timing depends on the thickness of your meat but typically in a thick gravy sauce you are looking at about 6 hours. There isn't much you need to do beyond the initial prep in the morning which is nice. You can thicken the sauce at the end more if you like but that is quick.

What is cube steak made of?

It is a cut of beef, usually top round or top sirloin. It's tenderized and flattened by pounding with a meat tenderizer as you see here. You can also use an electric tenderizer. The name refers to the shape of the indentations left by that process, called cubing. We've found it already pound out in the grocery store, but it takes a few minutes to do yourself at home.

Either way it comes out incredibly tender, especially if you make it in your slow cooker. We bet once you too try it low and slow smothered in gravy you may never go back to any other method.

A person using a meat tenderizer mallet on a slice of raw beef destined to become cube steak, placed on a wooden cutting board. Two additional pieces of raw beef are in the background, ready for the slow cooker.

Ingredient notes

Cube steak is of course the main star of the show. It is usually made of slices of top round or top sirloin pounded by a meat mallet or run thru a machine to tenderize with those little divots on the top and bottom of each piece.

Do you wash cube steak before cooking?

no! Do not rinse your raw beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, or veal before cooking. Now you could use other meats to make this as well. We have done this same thing to make Pork Cube Steak as well with pounded out boneless chops.

You will want a can of cream of mushroom soup and a can of cream of chicken soup, or another mushroom can works too if you prefer that only.

We do like to dice or slice a white or yellow Onion and throw it in there for flavor and texture but it is optional as well as including your dry French onion soup mix packet. Some use a gravy packet instead but we feel this has more flavor

You will need some liquid to make this, the best is Beef broth or mix beef bouillon with water to make broth vs. water which offers no flavor.

Cornstarch to thicken sauce. You could slice mushrooms in half and add at the end too.

Unlike our steak in the Instant Potthis meat is so tender when it's done that you can cut it with the side of your fork! As for the seasonings you can add as many or few as you wish. We tend to under-season while cooking, and add to the top once it's done.

It's all about layering and throwing it all in so it can cook all day by itself until you're ready to eat. There is no need to brown or sear your meat beforehand but you can if you want. It would have a slightly different color if you did.

How to Cook Slow Cooker Cube Steak with Cream of Mushroom Soup

In Crockpot or bowl whisk together cream of mushroom and chicken soup, onion soup mix and 1 cup of beef broth. Place cube steak inside and gently submerge inside, then and onions on top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Cover and cook on low for 6 hours cooking time. In a bowl combine 1/4 c remaining broth with cornstarch until smooth. 30 minutes before serving lift lid and pour this into slow cooker for an additional 30 minutes or until mushroom sauce gravy mix thickens to your liking. Serve over mashed potatoes garnished with fresh parsley.

on the stove

You could make this in a large skillet over medium high heat until tender but you have to pay a lot more attention to it so the meat doesn't become tough. We don't think it turns out quite as tender as slow cooking but it's an option if that's all you have.

in pressure cooker

Because this cut is supposed to be SUPER tender we don't bother with the initial sear the way we might if we were making our Instant Pot cube steak recipe.

Slow Cooker Cube Steak Recipe

By Tender slow cooker cube steak is a great dinner with cream of mushroom soup to make the gravy is great. Served with rice or noodles it's a yummy family friendly meal. Prep: 10 minutes minsCook: 6 hours hrsServings: 4 Save Recipe Saved! Pin Recipe Comment Print Recipe

Equipment

Ingredients

1.5 lbs cube steak
1 can cream of mushroom
1 can cream of chicken, or use mushroom
1 pkg onion soup mix
1 1/4 cup beef broth, divided
1 small onion, sliced
3 tbsp cornstarch
1 pinch salt

Instructions

In Crockpot whisk together cream of mushroom soup and cream of chicken, onion soup mix and 1 cup of beef broth.
Place cube steak inside and gently submerge inside, then and onions on top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Cover and cook on low for 6 hours or until tender to your liking.
In a bowl combine 1/4 c remaining broth with cornstarch until smooth. 30 minutes before serving lift lid and pour this into slow cooker for an additional 30 minutes or until gravy thickens to your liking.
Serve over mashed potatoes garnished with fresh parsley.

Nutrition

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Additional Info

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There is definitely a difference in how tender you can get a piece of beef cooked low and slow vs. on the stove. Especially larger cuts that have more connective tissue like our slow cooker flank steakthere is no substitute for it cooking all day long.

What should you serve with cube steak?

Well the options are endless but personally we always pair it with a side of egg noodles or potatoes of some kind. A side of air fryer mixed vegetables are always a good addition too.Other slow cooker recipes to try next are many. You should start with our Crockpot beef barley soup if you want to go the healthier route and move on from there.

Crockpot French onion soup is fantastic with some rolls too.
Stuff slow cooker baked potatoes with our 5 ingredient chili some night. It's a family favorite around here.
Make sliders with this easy Crockpot BBQ beef recipe.

Want to cook steak some other way? Here's how to make bacon wrapped air fryer steak ribeye in air fryer and a look at our teriyaki air fryer cube steak too.

How do you tenderize cube steak?

If you want to tenderize and make cubed steak at home you'll need a metal meat tenderizer like we used. Lay your meat on a cutting board and start pounding away to flatten and poke holes in it so it becomes easier to chew when done. If you don't have one of those you can use the back of a cast iron pan and then use a fork to poke on both sides.

Is Minute steak and cube steak the same thing?

While cube steak is sometimes referred to as minute steak, the latter is actually a different cut of meat. Cube steak is cut from the round steak or chuck steak and then tenderized, while Minute steak is thinly cut from the sirloin or round steak and pounded as well. Sometimes people refer to them as the same, and honestly they are quite similar. Take a peek at our cube steak and gravy recipe inside our Crockpot here.