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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Nutrition
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!
Here are some more easy steak recipes:
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Aweee that’s sweet : ) Ty so much I hope it all turns out well. Wish me luck!
So I’m pretty new to cooking and this sounds yummy. I really wanna try this tonight for my bf and his dad so can you tell me about how long does this whole process take? I wanna have a hot meal when they get home so I don’t wanna start it to soon. Help!!
I would start about half an hour before supper and you’ll have plenty of time 🙂 what a treat you are!! Wish we were related!
This is my new favorite site. Thank you so much for displaying step-by-step. My family moved to the north when I was very young and they didn’t want anyone to know that we were from Kentucky, so my southern -cooking education was very limited. Looks like everything I”ve missed, is right here. Thank you, again.
Why would they not want anyone to know u were from Kentucky.
I am from Australia & I would love to visit there.
When I found this site I was over the moon, could not wait to try the recipes.
Sometimes I have a little trouble with some items.
We call things by different names, or else we don’t have here at all.
Your biscuits are our scones. Your cookies R our biscuits.
Your conserve is our jam, etc
Have a blessed day.
Well I’m sure glad all of y’all are here and I’m awfully proud of any place that would send such sweet people my way!
Why would you not want anyone to know you were from Kentucky, I love the state, some of the sweetest folks I know, I was’nt there very long, but enough toknow I loved the state, and the folks.. be proud, all of our USA is wonderful!
Your recipe won hands down!! I am making it again tonight 🙂
Oh my goodness, thank you so much!! I am so glad to hear that you liked it
One of my families favorite. My mother always fried with onions sliced in rings. Delicious. My son does not like gravy so I just do the battered cube steak with onions.
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I have made this twice. Both times the gravy was still too floury. I need to add more milk (like the recipe says) and salt and pepper to the gravy. One thing that did add more flavor was I used bacon grease to brown the cube steaks rather than vegtable oil.
If your gravy tastes too much like flour, it isn’t cooked enough. The flour has to cook to change flavor. My BFF taught me how to make sausage gravy and she would tell me, “Cook it until you think it’s done then cook it longer.” and “Cook it until you think it’s just about burnt.”
Hope that helps-
Good Luck and happy eating!
When you first stir in the flour is when you want to cook it, before you add the milk. That will take the flour taste away. You can also control the color by cooking and stirring the flour with the oil. You are basically making a roux, and you can make it darker by cooking it longer. It will change the color of your gravy.
My girlfriend is working late so I’m gonna surprise her 🙂
She is going to love you even more Doug!! What a great thing to surprise her with!!
Great recipe but too many pages to print out, hurgh!
That’s why I just use the little print recipe button at the bottom, it makes it much easier to print out when you’re just printing one page.
Hope this helps! and Hurgh! sounds like a fun battle cry. I’m sure if I yell it loud enough folks would clear a path for me wherever I went!
I have never made cube steak before and I did a quick search on Google to find a recipe while I was at the store to see how to make it.. I didn’t see your recipe until I got home so I am going to do some like this and some the other way I found which involves baking it in the oven for 3 hours with golden mushroom, button mushrooms, lipton onion soup mix and cooking wine 🙂 I will see which the family prefers!!
Let me know how it goes Winona!