Southern
Chicken Fried Steak
Chicken Fried Steak is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 cube steaks
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs
- 1.5 cups buttermilk
- 1.5 cups whole milk
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 2 cups neutral oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Whisk the eggs with 1/2 cup of the buttermilk in one dish and combine the flour, garlic powder, salt, and pepper in another.
- Dredge each cube steak in the flour, then the egg, then the flour again, pressing to coat.
- Heat 1/2 inch of oil in a skillet to 350F and fry the steaks until golden and crisp, about 3 minutes per side, then drain.
- Pour off all but 3 tbsp of the oil and whisk in 3 tbsp of the seasoned flour, cooking 1 minute.
- Whisk in the remaining buttermilk and the milk and simmer into a peppery gravy, about 4 minutes.
- Serve the steaks smothered in the gravy.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Fried Steak, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Fried Steak carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Cajun Jambalaya |
| Gluten | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, Dairy, and Egg
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chicken Fried Steak takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on beef and flour.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.