Texas-Style Chicken Fried Steak With Cream Gravy
- 1 lb tenderized beef cutlets (4 cube steaks) or 1 lb round steak, cut into 4 pices and tenderized
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup milk
- all-purpose flour
- cooking oil or melted Crisco
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
- CREAMY GRAVY
- 3 tablespoons flour (use the left-over flour from the chicken fried steak recipe)
- 3/4 cup milk
- 3/4 cup water
- salt
- pepper
- STEAKS:.
- Beat together the egg and milk and set aside.
- Mix together the salt, black pepper, paprika and white pepper and sprinkle on both sides of beef cutlets.
- Dredge the cutlets in the flour, shaking off the excess.
- Then dip each cutlet in the egg/milk mixture, then back in the flour. (You're going to get your hands messy here, so take your rings off.)
- Set cutlets aside on a piece of waxed paper.
- Heat the cooking oil in a large cast-iron or other heavy skillet over medium-high heat for a few minutes.
- Oil should be about a half-inch deep in the pan.
- Check the temperature with a drop of water; if it pops and spits back at you, it's ready.
- With a long-handled fork, carefully place each cutlet into the hot oil.
- Protect yourself (and your kitchen) from the popping grease that results.
- Fry cutlets on both sides, turning once, until golden brown.
- Reduce heat to low, cover and cook 4 or 5 minutes until cutlets are done through.
- Drain cutlets on paper towels.
- CREAMY GRAVY:
- After the cutlets are removed from the pan, pour off all but about 2 tablespoons of oil, keeping as many as possible of the browned bits in the pan.
- Heat the oil over medium heat until hot.
- Sprinkle flour in the hot oil.
- Stir with a wooden spoon or whisk, quickly, to brown the flour.
- Gradually stir in milk and water, mixed together, stirring constantly with the wooden spoon or whisk and mashing out any lumps.
- Lower heat, and gravy will begin to thicken.
- Continue cooking and stirring a few minutes until gravy reaches desired thickness.
- Check seasonings and add more salt and pepper according to your taste.
- http://www.texascooking.com/recipes//texascfs.htm.
beef cutlets, egg, milk, flour, cooking oil, salt, ground black pepper, paprika, white pepper, gravy, flour, milk, water, salt, pepper
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/texas-style-chicken-fried-steak-with-cream-gravy-314845 (may not work)