Chicken Fried Steak

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 cups flour
• 5 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 6 cube steaks
• 5 cups peanut oil
• 1 onion, finely minced
• 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 2 cups whole milk
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Recipe

• 1 set your oven to the "warm" temperature or about 200 degrees. either place a wire cookie cooling rack on top of a rimmed baking sheet or line a baking sheet with paper towels. set in oven.
• 2 mix the flour, salt and peppers in a dish to dredge the meat.
• 3 in another similar dish put the beaten eggs, baking power, baking soda and buttermilk. mix well. some foaming is to be expected.
• 4 very gently pick up a steak and lightly dry with a paper towel. lay the steak in the flour mixture on both sides to coat evenly.
• 5 pick up steak from the flour with tongs and lay each side in the egg/buttermilk mixture to evenly coat.
• 6 place in the flour once more to coat both sides evenly.
• 7 repeat process with each steak. lay prepared steaks ready to fry on another cookie cooling wire rack to keep the coating intact.
• 8 bring 1 inch of of peanut oil in a deep pan or dutch oven to 375 degrees.
• 9 fry each steak 2 1/2 minutes each side, until the crust is a deep golden brown. be sure the oil is back up to 375 and 1 inch deep for each batch.
• 10 drain each steak on a paper towel for a moment then place on the rack in the warm oven.
• 11 once the steaks are done, strain the oil into an extra pan. put the crumbs in the strainer back in the used frying pan along with 2 tablespoons of the hot oil.
• 12 brown the onion in the oil, then add the garlic. cook for about 30 seconds more. add the flour to the pan and stir with a whisk to brown the flour.
• 13 add the broth,stirring with the whisk constantly, then the milk, salt and pepper.
• 14 bring to a gentle boil then reduce heat to simmer until the gravy starts to thicken.
• 15 serve the steaks with the gravy spooned over top.