Prior to my day’s work ending, one of my clients handed me a condensed version of this dish. I loved it and gave it a few additions. Thank you so much, Laurie. You were right; a delicious lunch! Both pita bread and rice pair well with this sauce. The beautiful thing about this recipe is that you can spice it up to your liking.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 4 (4 ounce) cube steaks
- ½ teaspoon Cajun seasoning, or to taste
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
- 2 (10.5 ounce) cans condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1 (1 ounce) envelope dry onion soup mix
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
- Season steaks on both sides with Cajun seasoning and black pepper. Place steaks into the prepared baking dish. Pour lemon-lime beverage over steaks. Combine condensed soups and onion soup mix in a medium bowl; pour over steaks.
- Bake, uncovered, in the preheated oven until meat reaches desired doneness, about 1 hour. Do not open the oven door during the first hour of cooking. An instant-read thermometer inserted into steak should read 145 degrees F (63 degrees C) for medium doneness. Serve steaks with gravy spooned over the top.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 299 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 24 g |
| Cholesterol | 28 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 17 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 1703 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 15 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is very good – but only when altered as suggested by another reviewer. Do NOT use lemon lime soda, use beer instead. I think I had a random miller light on hand, and it was delicious! Next time I’ll probably add some garlic and onion then cook in the crockpot.
Horrid down garbage disposal 4 nice cutlets wasted a can of mushroom soup and the onion soup packet. 1 hr electricity used for what??? Wasted money down the drain it was sweet ?? Sweet meat gravy!!! Yuuukkkk
Made a mistake. Did not bake it. It was ok but will try it again this time baked. Why do you not let it be printed?
I only had ranch mix dressing instead of dry onion dressing mix. I also did not have a lemon-lime beverage, so instead I dripped 1/4 tsp. lemon juice on each steak. It tasted great! My 15 y.o. son likes it.
Very good recipe. Gravy is too thin. How do I thicken it up next time?
My whole life I’ve breaded and fried cube steak. This is a great alternative. Made it exactly as recipe stated and it turned out very good with lots of yummy gravy left for our mashed potatoes.
Made this today and turned out yummy. I didnt have canun seasoning or french onion soup mix. I wouldnt have used canun anyway as im sensitive to spices but i used a custom herb mix my bf’s aunt makes plus pepper, worcestshire, some garlic. I sauted onions and mushrooms first, added lemon lime soda and 2 cans of cream of mushroom and layered with meat in crockpot. Since i didnt have french onion soup mix i used a brown gravy mix packet. All this combined and few hours in crockpot meat was so tender it was falling apart. We spooned on top of mash potatos with green beans. Very good!
My family loved it.
Pretty good ! Will make it again !
Wow! I’ve never had cube steak so tender before! I used a generous sprinkling of garlic seasoning, salt, and pepper instead of creole, but followed the rest of the recipe. I would say next time I’ll use either a little less lemon-lime soda or a thickener as I used 8 cube steaks and it was still a little too thin. I put this on a bed of egg noodles. Wonderful!
My family liked this, but it was too spicy for us with the cajun seasoning. I will make it again but will use Cavender’s or Lawry’s or some other non-spicy seasoning blend. All I had in the house for a 12-ounce soda was Diet Mountain Dew, but it worked really well, actually. I also used one can of cream of mushroom soup and one of golden mushroom soup. I baked it for 1 1/2 hours.
Yum!!!
I was wondering how this would turn out because of the mix of ingredients. I was delighted. It was great made just how the directions said.
Maybe it was the onion soup mix, maybe it was the cajun spice, or a combination of both, but I detected a slight aftertaste. Too much gravy, threw half of it away. My family ate it up, but I likely won’t make it again.
I made this for 2 people, using the ingredients I had on hand. I sprayed a crockpot with canola oil, put a layer of sliced onions on the bottom, added the seasoned steaks, using salt, pepper, garlic powder, ginger ale’ 2 cans of cream of mushroom soup. Cooked on high heat for 4 hrs. Meat was fork tender and tasty, used the soup over mashed potatoes.
This is a great recipe. The cube were very tender when they were done cooking. The only things I changed were that I used water instead of oil, used garlic powder, sea salt, pepper, thyme as seasoning, no soda at all, and put a lid over it to keep meat moist during cooking process . Lastly, didn’t make broth into gravy. Kept it as a broth.
Turned out great!
Excellent, I didn’t have 2 cans of Cream of Mushroom soup, used one jar of Heinz Home Style Gravy and 1 can of cream soup served over Egg noddles. Very good and well make again.
Made this last night and was super good! My 1 year old loved it. Definitely a keeper!
Flavor worked well but I’ added green peppers and onions which helped. I’d recommend aluminum foil to Kennedy the heat in because they weren’t tender. Another option is a slow cooker and corn starch to make the gravy thicker.
This as a very tender recipe for cube steaks. I cooked mine on the stovetop for two hours, turning the steaks after one hour. I served them with mashed potatoes and my family really liked them. The only complaint was that they were a bit too salty. I think I would cut back on the dry soup and cream of mushroom soup. Probably by half. I will be making this again.