Southern Cubed Steak and Milk Gravy
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There’s nothing quite as comforting as this Southern cube steak and gravy dish. Fortunately, it’s an easy dinner to make on a busy weeknight. All you need is cube steak, milk, and flour and you will have dinner ready in about 35 minutes. The end result is tender steak swimming in creamy and flavorful milk gravy. How good does that sound? You can choose to serve your steak with a variety of side dishes too, like Cheesy Garlic Mashed Potatoes With Mozzarella, Fresh Green Beans, Easy Homemade Dirty Rice.
Recipe Ingredients
- Milk
- Salt
- Pepper
- Flour
- Cube steak
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How to Make Cube Steaks and Gravy
Pour just enough oil to coat the bottom of your cast iron skillet and heat oil over medium heat.
Put about a cup of flour in a bowl. Add some salt and pepper and stir that up.
Place a piece of cube steak in the flour mixture and press down a bit to ensure it is dredged in flour.
Turn it over and coat the other side…
Repeat with all of the pieces.
Place in hot oil.
Fry steaks and flip to ensure they’re nice and brown on each side. Once done, remove steak and place on a paper towel-lined plate.
Add about 1/4 cup of flour to this and seasoned salt and black pepper to taste.
Stir that up and continue cooking it on medium heat until the flour gets browned a bit, stirring the whole time.
Next, turn your heat down to the lowest setting and pour the milk into the skillet. I start out with about a cup and a half and then add more if I want it thinner.
Use a wire whisk to stir this because it really helps break up the lumps of flour and get it all good and mixed up.
Cook on the lowest heat until it thickens, stirring constantly. If it gets too thick, you can add more milk. This will just take a few minutes, so stir the entire time and be ready to remove it from the heat when it gets thick.
Put your steak back into the milk gravy, turn them over to coat both sides and you’re done!
Ingredients
- 4 pieces cubed steak
- 1 cup all-purpose flour plus about 1/4 cup more to thicken gravy
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- 1 1/2 cups milk approximately
Instructions
- Place enough oil in a pan to just coat the bottom and put that over medium heat while you prepare your steak.
- In a bowl, place 1 cup flour and add 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/ 4 teaspoon pepper (more if you prefer). Stir that up. Dip each piece of steak into flour on both sides to get it coated well.4 pieces cubed steak, 1 cup all-purpose flour, salt, pepper
- Place each piece of steak in the heated pan and cook until good and brown on both sides. Remove steak to a plate while you make your gravy.
- Place about 1/4 cup flour into skillet with meat drippings. Add a little more salt and pepper and stir this over medium heat until the flour is slightly browned (just a few minutes).1 cup all-purpose flour, 1 1/2 cups milk
- Slowly pour in 1 1/2 cups of milk, stirring constantly. Continue stirring with a wire whisk (to help with the lumps) over the lowest heat setting until thickened and there are no lumps. This will happen rather quickly. Add a little more milk if you prefer thinner gravy. Return steak to the pan and turn to coat with gravy on both sides.
- Serve steak and gravy together in a bowl or serve gravy on the side to go with mashed potatoes.
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Storage
Store the steaks and gravy in an airtight container in the fridge for up to three days.
Recipe Notes
- You always want to have your oil good and hot before you add anything to it, as this keeps your food from getting greasy by actually searing it on contact.
- If you’re unsure what cube steak is, it’s either sirloin or a top-round cut of beef that’s been tenderized and pounded with either a meat mallet or machine. This process is called cubing and leaves indentations in the meat, which is where it gets its name. So if you like, you can buy your beef and tenderize it at home. Just make sure it’s about a 1/4-inch thick.
- To make this steak and gravy dish gluten-free, simply swap the flour for a gluten-free version. It’s that easy. All of the side dishes mentioned below are gluten-free too.
Recipe FAQs
What do you serve with cube steak and gravy?
I like to serve Southern cube steak with milk gravy, mashed potatoes or rice. But another option is to serve it with roasted vegetables, a side of potatoes and peas, or alongside a side salad and bread, to soak up every drop of the flavorful gravy. Yum!
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Christy I love steak and milk gravy. I so forgot about this meal. I am adding it to the menu so i dont forget to make it. My mother used to do her meat the same way with a plate its so funny all those old things they used to do.
(Billgent) I have a meat and potatoes man myself (my husband) so i know how it is. He doesnt venture out to much. He and I are so different I will try everything and he sticks to meat and potatoes. Boring!!!! sometimes theres no changing them.
What a coincidence! This is a my favorite meal too only I substitute chicken for steak and dumplings for gravy. Ok just kidding, we have it a lot and I fix it in the same manner.
I have the Salisbury steaks from MommysKitchen in the slow cooker as I write. I added potatoes for the dad man. It smells really good.
My mother in law got eating this I will be making this Wednesday night
Yummy , u are making me hungry
Ohhh, I do love some fried cube steak, we had it for dinner on Monday….I do mine just a little different, in my flour, I add seasoning salt, then batter and fry, and I don’t like milk gravy so I make water gravy, just like you make it but I put water instead of milk….Hubby loves it too…
and about the meat tenderizing, I still do that, my Mama taught me to do it with a saucer too….easy!
I like to tenderize my steak that I am going to cut up with lots of different veggies, also cut up, and put it in a big grill pan(pan with holes) and add olive oil and seasoning salt and just stir it over the grill until the veggies are crisp tender…
I am loving your blog and recipes..
thanks
Brenda
OOO…Christy, you just made my day. I could eat this or chicken fried steak and gravy ANY day. Such an advantage of having a southern daddy and a northern mama. I get the best of both worlds(but I still like the southern cooking the best. Keep em coming, I plan on making this for supper SOON
I know what I am having for supper! My DH will be so pleased!
Hey Treva!! I’m doing well, just crazed busy trying to get both blogs set up so posts still run on a regular basis while we are in Disney. My son told my mother yesterday “My mom has been really busy lately, she hasn’t got to spend a lot of time with me.” ~sigh~
He’s so dramatic. Oh well, if a week in Disney doesn’t cure that, nothing will!!!
Let me know when you get your cookbook! hope everything is going well with my doublemint twins!!!!
OHHHHH!!! YUM!!!!
I have not had this in forever! I will definately give this one a try! I hope all is well with you Christy!! Thanks for the great recipes and I CAN’T WAIT to get my cookbook!!!
I make this recipe with venison. SO good!!
This is pur comfort food. My grandma made it just like you. She taught me how to make it. I remember when a friend invited me over for cube steak and made brown gravy! What was she thinking??!! Thank you for the memory.
This is my favorite meal and almost exactly how I make it. I make mine in a cast iron skillet and instead of oil I use bacon grease. The gravy is great on boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, or rice.
Oh my! I hated cube steak as a kid, but then it wasn’t covered in gravy! Going to have to try this!!