This collection of cube steak recipes, many of which can be made in the slow cooker, is budget friendly and delicious. If you’ve never tried cube steak – also known as minute steak or swiss steak – there’s no time like right now.
Cube steak is a cut of meat that has been tenderized by being pounded with a textured mallet. This leaves small indentations on the meat, which helps break down the muscle fibers and makes it less tough and more tender.
This is a great way to get a delicious meal from an inexpensive and less tender cut of beef. It’s a big money saver, especially for families.
Many of these can be made in the crock pot, especially a slow cooker with a browning feature.
Cube steak has a reputation for being unhealthy, but it’s actually lean beef. It only becomes high in calories when you add flour and heavy gravies to it, as a lot of recipes do.
You can enjoy it as stick to your ribs comfort food, or stick to the lighter healthier recipes.
Cube Steak Recipes
This recipe smothers cube steak in gravy and onions for a terrific comfort food entree in only about 20 minutes from start to finish. The steak has a wonderful texture.
It's great served with mashed potatoes. corn, french fries, bread or just about any vegetable. You can even use it on sandwiches because it's so tenderized that it's easy to bite off.
Instead of the usual cube steak served alone or with gravy, this easy recipe cooks it in BBQ sauce and adds it to a stuffed potato.
This can be your whole meal. Okay, some family members might need two. But still.
The potato is loaded with butter, cheese, green onions (or chives) and this super tasty bbq grilled cube steak!
Chili Lime Cube Steaks - easy & healthy dinner recipe without flour!
If you're looking for something completely different from the usual cube steak recipe, this is it. This recipe combines spicy, sweet, and zesty flavors and only takes about ten minutes to make.
Serve it with rice for a delicious meal.
In this recipe, you marinate cube steak in an air fryer with teriyaki sauce. It's crispy around the edges and tender in the middle.
Country Fried Steak, also called chicken fried steak, is a southern classic. This recipe is loaded with helpful tips, from how to ask your butcher for the right meat to the best way make gravy for it.
The gravy is optional. The breading has so much flavor that you don't need gravy at all. It's a heavy dish that's excellent comfort food.
Yes, this is literally a battered and fried piece of steak, but you don't have to deep fry it. You can cook it in a pan instead. A cast iron skillet is great for this.
This is another lighter fare cube steak recipe. It's made with Worcestershire Sauce to give it lots of flavor. It's gluten free and low carb.
There is no breading, so you can make this easy dinner recipe in about 10 minutess.
If you don't love using the amount of oil it takes to make Chicken Fried Steak the traditional way, this air fryer method is a great alternative. It's easy to make.
The breading is flavored with several herbs and spices. The egg wash even has buffalo sauce for extra kick.
And instead of the usual brown gravy, this one comes with a peppery white gravy.
Like we said, chicken fried steak can be a little heavy with a meal sometimes. This is a bite-size version you can make as an appetizer.
You dip it in white gravy. Preferably, you'll make the gravy from bacon grease you have on hand. Calilng it "grease" might make it sound gross, but bacon fat is a really tasty fat for cooking. And it doesn't take a lot.
You can cook both the steak and the gravy in a cast iron skillet.
Did you forget to set out your cube steak to thaw? No problem with a slow cooker. This recipe shows you how to take it from frozen to tasty.
In it, you put frozen cube steak in your slow cooker, add your sauce, and wait for dinner.
This tender cube steak is cooked in a slow cooker and smothered with a rich mushroom gravy and onions. You can serve it with rice or noodles.
This is comfort food at its best, full of savory flavor from the cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup. And yet it's really easy to make.
This tender cube steak is made in the slow cooker. It includes a recipe for a savory brown gravy and pan fried onions you can make on the stove top.
Serve it smothered in the gravy and onions. For sides, try mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots and/or cornbread.
Comes with instructions for making it in the slow cooker.
This easy recipe only takes 30 minutes, and you get delicious tender cube steak that's smothered in brown gravy with caramelized onions.
It uses Kitchen Bouquet for color and flavor, and also paprika for seasoning.