Cube Steak – Oven Baked

Tried and True

Cube steak, done the right way. There is a tried and true method of having meat come out tender in your oven. Slow-bake it for a long time instead of doing the “hurry up” method (which is merely a hotter oven for a shorter amount of time.)

For cube steak, I like to dredge the steaks in flour and then brown them in real butter. You can add some onions and other seasonings such as salt and pepper if you’d like. From the drippings, I make a gravy.

Put the cube steaks in an oven dish, pour the gravy over the top, and bake it at 250 for several hours. This is a great way to warm your kitchen and your appetite as you smell the savory in the air.

Fix ahead or fix it for now

The nice thing about this recipe is that your work is done ahead and you can clean up your kitchen long before dinner-time. This recipe is a great dish for Sunday noon. Pop the cube steak with gravy in the oven before you head to church. It will be done when you get home, and the aroma when you walk in the door will let you know you’re “home”!

Sometimes I pick up cube steaks on sale. I bring them home, fry them, put them in a freezer container and layer gravy on top.  The day I want to serve this dish, I pop the frozen steaks/gravy into an oven-ware dish and begin the baking process.

Serve your cube steak with homemade mashed potatoes and a vegetable or salad, and you’re ready to go! This recipe guarantees your cube steak will be so tender even a toddler or a senior citizen can handle it.

The Recipe for Cube Steak

Oven Baked Cube Steak

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Cube steaks are an easy fix and can be made ahead except for the time to bake them. Dredge in flour, fry in butter with onions, then make a gravy from the drippings and bake.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 3 hours hrs

Total Time 3 hours hrs 20 minutes mins

Course Main

Cuisine American

Servings 4

Ingredients

  

• 4 Cube steaks
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 onion sliced thinly
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup butter
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Flour with 1 cup milk for gravy

Instructions

 

• Dredge steaks in the flour
• Melt butter in skillet
• Fry steaks in skillet until brown, turning once, adding salt and pepper as desired
• Put steaks into a roaster or pot with a lid
• Sauté onions in remaining butter until tender
• Move onions with a slotted spoon and put on top of steaks
• Using the left-over flour from dredging the steaks, mix with milk until you have a smooth paste
• Bring the butter/steak/onion mixture in the skillet to a boil, then add the flour/milk paste slowly
• Stir and simmer until it is the right thickness
• Pour over steaks
• Cover and bake at 250 for 3+ hours until the steaks are tender.
• You can bake at 350 for a shorter time if you desire.

This is a repost from seven years ago. I haven’t found a better way to fix cube steak yet!