Country Chicken Fried Steak with White Gravy
This recipe for a crispy and delicious country fried steak with white gravy is way easier than you think! Try this classic southern comfort food for dinner tonight and see for yourself - you can do it!
Ingredients
- 4 cubed steaks each about 1/4 lb
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper optional
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 cup whole milk use whole milk because its creamier than 2% and fat free milk
- 1 tbsp butter salted or unsalted
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine the salt and ground black pepper, and mix well.
- Season each sides of the cubed steaks with half of the salt and pepper mix.
- Next add one egg, and a 1/2 cup of buttermilk into a dish, and whisk them together.
- In a separate dish add in : 1 cup all purpose flour, remaining salt and pepper, and 1 tsp cayenne pepper. Whisk the ingredients together and make sure that they are well combined.
- Coat the cubed steaks with the egg and buttermilk mixture, then coat them with the seasoned flour.
- Shake off any excess Flour, and reserve the leftover flour.
- Pour 1 1/2 cup oil into a frying pan. Place the pan over medium heat.
- Once the oil is nice and hot, add in the steaks. Be sure to not over crowd the pan.
- Cook each steak for about 10 minutes.
- Once you remove the steaks from the pan, place them on a paper towel lined place to get rid of the excess oil. (reserve 3 tbsp of the oil)
- Add 1 tbsp butter, and 3 tbsp of vegetable oil (I use the left over oil from which I used to fry the steaks) into a pan. Place the pan over medium heat.
- Once the oil and butter is melted and hot, sprinkle in about 2 tbsp of the seasoned flour that we reserved.
- Stir the flour in with the oil and butter, and then pour in 1 cup of whole milk.
- Stir until everything is nice and smooth, and let the gravy cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes.
- Serve the steaks either with gravy on the side OR poured on top.