Here's how to make my Chicken Fried Steak with Southern-Style Peppered Milk Gravy. True, this one is not exactly for the calorie conscience or perpetual dieter, but certainly a warm and comforting, occasional meal.Ĭlick Here for Tips to Help the Coating Adhere and Not Fall Off The perfect side for this dish is, of course, homemade mashed potatoes, but you may sure serve it up with some rice, beans or whatever sides you like. Instead, I just spoon some of the gravy over the center of each crispy steak and offer the rest of the gravy at the table. Personally, I prefer that my chicken fried steak retain its crunch - so I don't dredge mine in the gravy. Another method is to transfer the browned steaks to a baking dish, pour the gravy on top and bake it in the oven. I call that a country style steak, or more commonly, simply cube steaks and gravy. Some folks like to return their steaks back into the gravy after they are browned, but to me that is a whole 'nother meal. Now there are a couple of different ways to finish off these chicken fried steaks.
If you start this off with a bit of browned bulk pork sausage and then finish off the gravy, you've got yourself a mighty fine sausage gravy for some homemade biscuits. Instead of using water or some type of stock as our gravy base, here we add in milk, or you may also use a combination of both water and milk, to form a creamy smooth gravy. It's really just a simple cube steak, dredged in seasoned flour, and topped with a milk gravy that is born out of a simple blond roux made with some kind of fat - butter, and very often, bacon fat - and pan drippings with a bit of flour. We will use some of those drippings here.Ĭhicken fried steak is definitely a mainstay of the South. which of course we try to do as often as possible. Bacon fat is great for adding flavor to many dishes anytime that you need just a bit of fat, so we Southern cooks save those drippings every time we have the opportunity to fry up a bit of bacon. It would be a rare Southerner who does not preserve and use their bacon drippings, and I'd venture a bet that most of us have a jar or grease pot somewhere in our kitchen or fridge. Cube steaks, dredged in seasoned flour, fried in fat and bacon drippings and drizzled with a peppered milk gravy.
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