Chicken-fried Steak : Southern cuisine
Chicken Fried Steak is a hearty food dish in the southern USA. The dish is commonly served with mashed potatoes smothered in chicken fried steak gravy.
Chicken Fried Steak is, simply, a cut of steak (usually cheap round steak)pounded until tender and then breaded like you would bread chicken, and fried in oil. Milk, salt, and pepper are added to the grease drippings and used to make a thick gravy, which is generously poured over the steak and, usually, mashed potatoes. Many people think the gravy makes the steak!
Recipe:
Pour cooking oil in pan (NOT olive oil!). Preheat pan at middle setting. Wet hand, drip 1 drop of water in pan to test the heat. If it sizzles, it’s hot enough. Not too much water though or it may sizzle so much you get hot grease on you!
Mix 1 cup of white flour with 1 tsp of pepper and 1/2 tsp of salt.
Beat eggs with milk in bowl. Dip tenderized round steak into egg/milk mixture and make sure both sides are drenched with egg mixture. Dip steak into flour mix thoroughly on both sides. When the pan is hot enough, put steak in pan. Fry until golden brown on bottom, and flip. Fry until golden brown on the other side. After taking steak(s) from pan pour in milk slowly, while stirring the grease and drippings. Don’t let the gravy get too thick. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour generously over steak and mashed potatoes. Bon Appetit!