Today I am sharing a quick and easy cube steak recipe for the slow cooker – a delicious meal to pop in the cooker when you are looking for some down home comfort food and are pressed for time. Slow Cooker Cube Steak & Gravy! Easy to adapt, a meal the whole family will love.

Slow Cooker Cube Steak and Gravy is a hearty, down home comfort meal that’s simple to make, perfect for a busy day! This recipe is a cinch to adapt, a meal the whole family will love – budget friendly too!

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, my husband’s mom made cube steaks often and he still loves them today. Now that we are in Georgia with hot and humid weather most of the year, I will be utilizing my slow cooker more often trying to avoid heating up the kitchen – this recipe will be on regular rotation.

WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE SLOW COOKER CUBE STEAK & GRAVY

Cube steaks, condensed cream of mushroom soup, onion gravy mix, vegetable oil (or canola), flour, salt and pepper, water. Just a few ingredients are needed to make this tasty meal. You can easily adapt this recipe to your personal taste.

HOW TO MAKE SLOW COOKER CUBE STEAK & GRAVY

Author: Rachele Barbieri Wright - Living the Simple Country Life

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SLOW COOKER CUBE STEAK AND GRAVY

Today I am sharing a quick and easy cube steak recipe for the slow cooker – a delicious meal to pop in the cooker when you are looking for some down home comfort food and are pressed for time. Slow Cooker Cube Steak & Gravy! Easy to adapt, a meal the whole family will love.

Ingredients

• 2 pounds cube steaks
• 10 1/2 ounce condensed cream of mushroom soup
• 1 packet of onion gravy (0.87 ounce packet)
• salt & pepper to taste
• 2 cups water
• 2 tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
• all purpose flour (for dredging)

Instructions

1. In a large skillet, heat oil in pan over medium-high heat. Season cube steaks with salt and pepper (or favorite seasonings – see tips below), lightly dredge in flour then brown steaks on each side and transfer to cooker. Mix cream of mushroom soup, gravy packet and water in a medium size bowl and pour over steaks. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. Be sure to adjust cooking time for your cooker.
2. Serve over mashed potatoes, rice or egg noodles with your favorite veggies and salad.
3. Tips
4. You can easily adapt this recipe by adding your favorite seasonings – garlic powder, onion powder. Love mushrooms, use mushroom gravy instead of onion gravy and toss in some fresh or canned mushrooms.

Slow Cooker Chicken and Gravy is what comfort food is all about in our house and it is totally ahhh-mazing! Easy and delicious always wins in our home. We just love a meal that makes it self. A few minutes and a few ingredients and dinner can be done. Oh how we love our slow cooker or crock pot as it is know to many. It sure comes in handy doesn’t it?! 

Just throw the chicken breast in the slow cooker with the gravy, water, cream of chicken soup, black pepper and the end result is amazing! The gravy makes itself and the chicken is so juicy and tender. 

We use our slow cooker all year long but probably more so in the fall and winter months. I guess because we grill out more in the spring and summer months.

Crock pot cooking always seems to make up what I consider comfort food. This Slow Cooker Chicken and Gravy is most definitely comfort food.

We switch off using chicken gravy or brown gravy. We ran out of chicken gravy for some crazy reason since our pantry is stocked with everything you could ever imagine except for packages of chicken gravy apparently one night so we used brown gravy and really loved it so we stuck with it.

Author: Rachele Barbieri Wright - Living the Simple Country Life

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Slow Cooker Chicken and Gravy

Slow Cooker Chicken and Gravy is what comfort food is all about in our house and it is totally ahhh-mazing! Easy and delicious always wins in our home.We just love a meal that makes it self. A few minutes and a few ingredients and dinner can be done. Oh how we love our slow cooker or crock pot as it is know to many. It sure comes in handy doesn’t it?!

Ingredients

• 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 2-0.87oz packets dry chicken gravy mix or brown gravy mix or a package of each
• 1 10 oz. can cream of chicken soup
• 1 3/4 cups water
• 1/3 tsp black pepper

Instructions

1. Empty the gravy packets, cream of chicken soup, water and pepper in a slow cooker. Whisk until the gravy is smooth. Add chicken breast.
2. Cook on low for 8 to 10 hours. Serve on rice. or mashed potatoes.

MAKING IT A MEAL? WHAT TO SERVE WITH THIS ROASTED ASPARAGUS? 

Yield: 4

Author: Rachele Barbieri Wright - Living the Simple Country Life

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GARLIC ROASTED CHEESY ASPARAGUS

An easy side dish, this roasted garlic asparagus is cooked on a single sheet pan with a cheesy topping.

ingredients:

• 1 lb fresh asparagus, ends snapped off
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 1 1/2 tbsp minced garlic
• salt & pepper, to taste
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

instructions:

How to cook GARLIC ROASTED CHEESY ASPARAGUS

1. Spread the asparagus, evenly, in a single layer on a large sheet pan.
2. In a small bowl, whisk together the oil and garlic until evenly combined. Pour the mixture evenly out over the veggies. Using your hands, toss the asparagus just until completely coated. Spread back out into an even, single layer.
3. Liberally salt & pepper the asparagus. I recommend more freshly ground black pepper than salt.
4. Bake at 425 for 15 minutes, or until the asparagus has become tender, but not yet wilted.
5. Carefully take the pan from the oven, sprinkle the cheeses evenly out over the asparagus. Return to the oven, baking an extra 2 minutes, or until the cheese is completely melted.
6. Turn the broiler on, and broil just until the cheese bubbles and begins to turn golden brown.
7. Serve, and enjoy!

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 Before I discovered how to meal plan, my weekly routines were a disaster. I never had a plan when it came to grocery shopping or cooking meals. Each week I would go to the store with a “list” and would buy whatever I thought we might need. I was pretty much just guessing as I walked through the aisles.

Meal planning can be a difficult skill to master. There are so many different methods out there that it takes some trial and error to narrow down what will work for you and your family. This is just the method that I’ve found works best for me.

**I only meal plan for dinners, but this method can work if you need to plan out breakfasts and lunches too.**

FREE Meal Planning & Grocery List Printable

The first step to creating an organized meal plan is to print out my all-in-one meal planning and grocery shopping printable. This printable lets me plan for up to two weeks of meals and two grocery trips to the store. You can grab a copy of this free printable for yourself here.

When it comes to meal planning, I like to keep things simple. That’s why I created this all-in-one printable meal planner. I love being able to plan out all of our meals and create my grocery list in one place.

At the top of the sheet, there is a two-week calendar. I’m a visual person, so I find that planning out my meals in a calendar format is the most helpful for me.

At the bottom of the sheet, there are grocery lists for each week. I normally try and go shopping once a week, but since I’m planning two weeks at once on this sheet, I added two separate lists.

Take a look at our schedules for the next couple of weeks

Before I even start thinking about recipes and ingredients, I open up my calendar on my phone. I start by writing down any events we have during those two weeks and I include notes about the events.

For example, maybe one night we have plans to go out somewhere to eat. I’ll mark that on the calendar so I know I don’t need to plan a meal for that night.

Maybe we have a crazy schedule after work one day and won’t be home until later. I’ll write down a note about having leftovers that night or eating a quick dinner. I try to include as much information as possible so that I know everything that’s going on.

It’s so important to look at your weekly plans and see what you have going on before you start planning out tons of meals for the week. While I would love to cook at home every day, that’s just not possible. I need to be realistic so I can make a meal plan that I can stick to and will actually work with my schedule.

This is also why I only plan two weeks at a time. Some people like to plan all the meals for an entire month, but I never seem to be able to stick to that type of plan. That’s because I don’t know our schedule that far in advance. I’ve found that two weeks seems to work best for us and I’m able to create a pretty accurate plan.

Browse thru Pinterest and Create a Plan

Once I’ve got everything from my calendar into my meal planning printable, I switch over to my Pinterest app and start looking for recipes. Pinterest is my favorite recipe app. It keeps all of my recipes from books, family, websites, and more organized in one place.

By having my recipes categorized like this, I avoid having to search through tons of recipes that don’t necessarily fit into normal meal planning.

Plan Meals & Create Notes

Once I find recipes that I want to make, I start filling in my printable. I look at the schedule that I’ve filled out and try to put meals in where I think they will fit.

The notes that I wrote in from my schedule help me pick which meals should go on certain days. If I know we are going to have leftovers one night because of a crazy schedule, then I try to plan a bigger meal the night before so that we will actually have leftovers.

I also add additional notes for certain recipes, like if I need to defrost meat or prep a slow cooker the night before.

Make your Grocery List

Considering what I already have on hand in my pantry and freezer, I write down any ingredients that I need to buy on my grocery lists. Once I’ve gone through all the recipes, I’m left with two weeks of grocery lists ready to go.

At this point, I add in any other things that I know I need to buy for each week.

To keep track of the food that we need, we always keep a notepad and pen on our fridge. As we notice things are running low, we add them to the list. When I’m making my meal plans and grocery lists for the week, I grab this list and add the items to the appropriate sections.

The best part about this printable is that when I am done meal planning, I just grab some scissors, cut on the dotted lines and separate the meal plan from the grocery lists. I put the calendar on our fridge and the two grocery lists go into my purse.

And that’s it, I’m done!

My full two-week meal plan is right there in the kitchen so I know what to make each night. My two grocery lists are complete so I know exactly what to buy at the store. All of the guesswork is gone!

Don't forget to follow the link above for your Meal Planning & Grocery List Printable

- If meal planning on your own is just too confusing and you would rather have me do it, membership is now open for my monthly meal plan. I provide a calendar full of planned meals along with full recipes and a grocery list too! You can subscribe and cancel anytime. 

All meals are based on a family of 4 but can easily be cut down or doubled to accommodate your families needs. You will receive the next month calendar, recipes and grocery list on the 25th of every month, so you have plenty of time to get the grocery items and be ready to go. You can sign up today here.

This Salisbury steak in mushroom onion gravy is a delicious homemade family favorite meal. Made with oval-shaped ground beef patties, pan seared and then cooked in a rich and savory, homemade, mushroom onion brown gravy. Good ol’ down home cooking and comfort food at it’s finest. A fairly quick meal to make that’s easy and delicious and can be on the table in about 45 minutes, depending on how long you cook the steaks in the gravy.

COMFORT FOOD

Ground beef patties pan seared and cooked in a delicious, savory, mushroom onion gravy that’s to die for, served over mashed potatoes and then smothered with more delicious gravy, what’s better than that? Oh, then served with a delicious vegetable on the side. A perfect comfort food and meal the whole family will enjoy!

HOMEMADE SALISBURY STEAK

I love this Salisbury steak recipe with broccoli or asparagus as the side but decided to use peas today, mainly because I didn’t have either of my two favorites and I had just used corn in my chicken fried steak with country gravy recipe the other day.

HOW TO MAKE SALISBURY STEAK

This Salisbury steak in mushroom onion gravy is easy to make. Grab a mixing bowl, and mix ground beef, onions, egg, bread crumbs, Worcestershire sauce, crushed red peppers, parsley and pepper together. Divide the ground beef into equal amounts and shape into oval patties about 1/2 inch thick. Should be able to get 5 or 6 patties out of this mixture. Heat a cast iron pan, or large frying pan, over medium high heat and cooked each patty for about 4-5 minutes on each side. Once golden brown and crispy on both sides, remove them from the pan and place on a plate.

PAN SEARED DELICIOUSNESS

Reduce the heat to medium, add onions and garlic to the pan along with the drippings from the steaks, and cook for 3-4 minutes. Stir in mushrooms and continue cooking for another few minutes. Sprinkle flour into pan, stir and cook for another minute or so. Next, add the beef broth, stir for a few minutes and then place the Salisbury steaks back into the pan. Cover the steaks in the gravy mixture and let the juices from the gravy saturate throughout the patties, cover the pan and cook for about 20-30 minutes. The gravy will also thicken up as it cools. That’s pretty much it. Pretty easy, right? Now just get some mashed potatoes and a vegetable to serve alongside and you will have a delicious homemade comfort meal that is absolutely scrumptious.

BEST SALISBURY STEAK RECIPE

Who doesn’t love a delicious meal, whatever it is, when it’s smothered in gravy? Well, this Salisbury steak recipe is definitely one you are going to love. Ground beef patties smothered in mushroom onion gravy. Just plain yum!

Author: Rachele Barbieri Wright - Living the Simple Country Life

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Salisbury Steak with Gravy

Ingredients

• - For the Salisbury Steaks
• 2 lbs ground beef
• 1/3 cup onions chopped
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp parsley
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp crushed red peppers
• - For the Mushroom Onion Gravy
• 4 cups beef broth
• 3 Tbsp flour
• 2 cups onions, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 8 oz mushrooms, sliced
• 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp pepper

Instructions

1. For the Salisbury Steaks
2. In a medium mixing bowl, mix ground beef, onions, egg, breadcrumbs, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, crushed red peppers and pepper together. Divide into equal amounts and shape into oval patties about 1/2 inch thick. Should get 5 or 6.
3. Heat a cast iron pan or large frying pan over medium high heat and cooked each patty for about 4-5 minutes on each side.
4. Once cooked on both sides, remove from the pan and place on a plate.
5. For the Mushroom Onion Gravy
6. Reduce heat to medium, add onions and garlic to the pan along with the steak drippings. Cook for 3-4 minutes. Stir in mushrooms and continue cooking for another few minutes.
7. Sprinkle flour over the mushrooms and onions, stir and cook for another minute or so.
8. Next, add beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Stir for a few minutes and place the Salisbury steaks back into the pan and cover with the gravy mixture.
9. Cover pan and cook for about 20-30 minutes gently stirring occasionally. The gravy will also thicken up as it cools so make sure not to cook it too long or your gravy will be too thick. If that happens, just add a little more beef broth to thin it out.
10. Serve over mashed potatoes with a delicious vegetable.
11. Enjoy!

Notes:

*And if the gravy seems to thin, mix 1 tsp corn starch with 1/8 cup water, then add to pan, stir and let simmer for a few more minutes

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