Southern

Chicken Fried Steak

Name: Chicken Fried Steak
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
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

Loretta Mae @loretta_mae

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.

45 min Involved Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

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.

Watch how to cook Chicken Fried Steak

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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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.

The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

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.

Every tracked allergen in Chicken Fried Steak
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Gluten	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
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

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 580 kcal
Protein: 32 g
Carbs: 36 g
Fat: 34 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 750 mg
Saturated fat: 10 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

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.