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!
Here are some more easy steak recipes:
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Love love love your southern roots and love for our Lord. This is our dinner tonight.
I hope you enjoy it Kathryn!!!
We just came back from vacation to the beach. We ate out most nites but my favorite meal of the whole week was the day my mom made cubed steak and gravy. So good.
What a wonderful treat!!!
This is an amazing dinner. My Dad made this when we could afford to have cheap steak. It’s always been one of my favorites! I decided to make this for my husband and was looking to find a recipe that added extra flavor. (Maybe I will add onions and peppers.) however with 6 kids and all of our friends that pretty much lived with us, Milk was scarce after our milk cow was gone. He made it with water in place of the milk and it still has the same amazing flavor. Plus its so full of fattening ingrediants, water helps lower a few calories. So for some of you that need to pinch a penny, use water in place of the milk.
We didn’t have a lot of milk either when I was growing up I remember my mom using powdered milk (with water) for cooking and saving the “good milk” for us kids to drink ❤️ .
This was my favorite meal growing up too! We called it “round steak rice and gravy” because mom always served it with rice and we had a never ending supply of round steak from our cattle. I never knew that other people had this same meal!
I think we’d be surprised at the number of homes that considered this one of their staples. Some wonderful families have gathered around this dish though the generations, what a blessing!
I am trying this gravy tonight with pork steak , mash potatoes and string beans sound like this gravy gonna be good.
I hope you enjoy it Shawn!!!
Thank You!
I had so-so luck with cubed steak, even though I had mastered much harder things (such as fried chicken, meatloaf, etc.) that others are jealous for because you know how to cook them correctly. I learned that keeping it simple was the secret to success as all the fussy stuff caused problems. Our grandparents didn’t do fancy! Take it back to the basics is the secret to success.
I honed in on this recipe because it was so simple, and it delivered. Never a failed attempt and easy.
Thank you for trying it John, I am so glad it delivered for you!! You are correct, our grandparents did keep things simple which helped to always turn out a great meal!! Have a blessed day!
This looks so good! Another recipe I will have to try soon!! I love milk gravy especially with some homemade biscuits.
I hope you get the chance to try it soon!!!
Make this one on a fairly regular basis… as for Diane’s comment, I too had a few problems with the gravy… but practice turned out to be my dear friend! Hang in there, it will come sooner than later. 🙂