How to Cook Chicken Fried Steak

This is an easy recipe for chicken fried steak with a wonderful, crunchy crust. Use pre-purchased cube steak for the recipe, or make your own cube steak by using a meat mallet to tenderize round steaks. This is wonderful served with rice or mashed potatoes and a vegetable.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 4 cube steaks
• 2 cups of flour
• 2 sleeves of saltine crackers, crushed into crumbs
• Salt and pepper
• 2 cups of milk
• 1 egg
• Vegetable oil for frying
• Frying pan

1. In a medium bowl, whisk the milk and egg together. Put the crushed crackers in another bowl, and the flour in another.
2. Start pre-heating about 1 inch of vegetable oil in the frying pan over medium-high heat.
3. Salt and pepper the steaks on both sides. Dip each steak first in the flour, then in the milk mixture, and then in the crackers.
4. Carefully place the steaks in the pre-heated oil and fry on both sides until golden brown in color.
5. Sit the steaks on paper towels to drain excess oil and serve hot.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure your oil is hot enough before adding the steaks. If it is too cool, the breading will absorb too much oil.
• If you cannot find cube steak, you can make your own by buying round steak. Beat the round steak with the flat side of a meat mallet until 1/4 inch or less thin. Then use the waffled side of the mallet to break up the meat and tenderize it even more.