How to Cook Tasty Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP

Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP. Cube Steak is as tender as can be and irresistible when smothered in a quick gravy made from onion soup mix—easy, simple, and hearty. Cube steak, sometimes labeled as cubed steak or minute steak, is an inexpensive, flavorful cut of beef that's pre-tenderized. It's taken from the top or bottom round — a tough portion near the rump.

This is the most common cut of meat used for the American dish chicken fried steak. Cube steak or cubed steak is a type of beef cut that is known to be a tough piece of meat that is tenderized. Usually it is either top round or top sirloin when purchased. You can cook Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP

Prepare of Dredge.
It's 1/2 cup of flour (ap).
Prepare 1 tsp. of Salt.
You need 1 tsp. of Pepper.
You need 2 tsp. of Garlic powder.
It's 1/4-1/2 tsp. of Cayenne (optional).
It's of Main.
It's 3/4 pounds of cube steak.
You need 1 of gravy packet.
It's 1/2 of large onion.
It's 1 tsp. of Salt.
Prepare 1 tsp. of Pepper.
Prepare 1/4-1/2 tsp. of Cayenne (optional).
It's 1 1/2-2 cups of broth.

It is then flattened by pounding and tenderized before cooking. Cube steak is a cut of meat that has already been tenderized and pounded with a meat mallet or machine. The "cube" in cube steak refers to the small, cube-shaped indentations in the meat made by the tenderizer. What is the best way to tenderize cube steak?

Cube Steak & Gravy Instant Pot IP instructions

Mix dredge ingredients in whatever container you wish..
Cut your cube steak how you like, I like bite sized pieces..
I just toss it in the dredge until coated..
Chop half an onion, I like this long, but do what you like..
Set your IP to saute.
Add 2-3 Tbl. Oil to the liner. Once hot, put in your floured meat and brown it..
Once your meat is just browned, add your onions..
Keep stirring until the onions just turn a little.
I happened to buy this gravy, use what you like..
Add your gravy and broth to the mix in the liner. Give it a stir..
Set your IP to pressure cook for 15 minutes.
Quick Release (QR) pressure when time is up.
Stir the contents, check the gravy. You may add a corn starch slurry now, if you want it thicker, or take a stick blender to it if that's the way you roll. Mine was thinner than I like, but my wife requested thinner gravy this go round, she won 😉.
We served this with a potato and cauliflower mash which is posted also..

Cube steak is steak that has been tenderized, but can still be tough. I like to cook it low and slow to get the meat fall apart tender. HOW TO MAKE CUBE STEAK IN THE CROCKPOT OR STOVE TOP. For both the stove top and the crockpot, I start this recipe by browning both sides of my cube steak in a hot skillet with some oil. According to Wikipedia : Cube steak is a cut of beef, usually top round or top sirloin, tenderized by fierce pounding with a meat tenderizer, or use of an electric tenderizer.