Easy Slow Cooker Cube Steak

Tender slow cooker cube steak is a great dinner smothered with rich mushroom gravy and onions. Served with rice or noodles it’s a yummy family friendly meal. 

Did your mom cook this growing up too?

Maybe because it was so cheap, or just because it was so good..we had this one pretty darned often.

Crockpot Cube Steak Recipe

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.

• I’ve found it already pound out in the grocery store, but it just 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.

How do you tenderize cube steak?

If you want to tenderize and make cubed steak at home you’ll just need a metal meat tenderizer like you see here. Lay your meat on a cutting board and start pounding away.

Do you wash cube steak before cooking?

Just no! Do not rinse your raw beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, or veal before cooking. 

Slow cooker cube steak

1. Cube steak – usually top round or top sirloin pounded
2. Cream of mushroom soup
3. Can of cream of chicken soup
4. Onion
5. French onion soup mix packet
   1. some use a gravy packet instead but I feel this has more flavor
6. Beef broth
   1. or mix beef bouillon with water to make broth
7. Cornstarch to thicken sauce

You could slice mushrooms in half and add at the end once you pour .

Unlike our steak in the Instant Pot, this 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. I tend to under-season while cooking, and add to the top once it’s done.

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.

It’s really 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 really want. It would have a slightly different color if you did.

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

Crock pot cubed steak with gravy

I’ve yet to make this in a large skillet over medium high heat until tender but I suppose you could.

I imagine it wouldn’t turn out quite as tender as slow cooking but it’s an option if that’s all you have.

What should you serve with cube steak?

Well the options are endless really but personally I always pair it with a side of egg noodles or potatoes of some kind. A side of vegetables are always a good addition too. 

Other slow cooker recipes to try next:

• 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 too.