Chicken Fried Steak Dinner. It's Chicken Fried Steak, is what it is. For the steak: Begin with setting up an assembly line of dishes. Chicken Fried Steak is the second breakfast recipe this week I'm posting in an effort to bring breakfast recipes back to the blog and make them easy enough When served for dinner it's classically served with mashed potatoes, green beans, ears of corn or coleslaw.
It was at a restaurant in Orange County and it was only okay.
So, I must admit, I have kind of shied away from the dish since that night.
But a few weeks ago I got a hankering and decided to try my hand at making the stuff myself.
You can have Chicken Fried Steak Dinner using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chicken Fried Steak Dinner
- It's 4 of thin cut round steaks.
- You need 3/4 cup of all-purpose flour.
- Prepare tbsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of black pepper.
- Prepare 2 cup of vegetable oil.
- You need 2 of eggs wisked.
Chicken fried steak, also known as country-fried steak, is an American breaded cutlet dish consisting of a piece of beefsteak (most often tenderized cube steak) coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried. It is sometimes associated with the Southern cuisine of the United States. For the uninitiated, chicken fried steak isn't chicken at all — it's a piece of steak fried like one. A tender cube steak is battered and fried, giving it a delicate, fried chicken-like coating.
Chicken Fried Steak Dinner instructions
- Use a meat tenderizer on the steaks, both sides. If you don't have one, use a fork. Stick throughout steaks for about 5 min..
- Heat oil on med heat in a skillet.
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- Mix flour, salt and pepper on a plate or wide bowl.
- Dredge steaks through egg and lay in flour mix. Flip to coat both sides..
- Place in oil and fry for 3-4 min per side. Fry until crispy and golden brown..
- Place on a paper towel covered plate to absorb oil..
- Serve immediately with your choice of sides and white pepper gravy..
It's thought that the technique came about as a way to dress up inexpensive cube steak into a more flavorful dinner. I'm not sure exactly where the urge came from, or even whether I've had chicken fried steak in the past decade, but for some reason a week ago it started to sound really good. For help I turned to Lisa Fain of the Homesick Texan (also our Serious Salsa bureau chief), whose love for the dish is. Chicken fried steak is by no means low fat, but it is a comfort food. Chicken fried steak is typically cube steak that has been breaded and fried, much like fried chicken would be.