Ingredients for Smothered Chicken Fried Steak Recipe

Series Summary

The Southern United States produces some of the heartiest dishes in the world. Whether it’s a mean mustard potato salad recipe, Mom’s best baked beans, crawfish etouffee, smoked sausage, slow-cooked brisket, fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, smothered pork chops, or country fried steak—anything that you think of as “comfort food” most likely came from somewhere near Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, or South Carolina.

It seems like a number of Southern recipes were developed with the idea of a large group of friends or family in mind, since they are often served at picnics, backyard cookouts, family reunions, and tailgate parties. Perhaps it’s the very nature of the people who inhabit the Deep South, people known for their qualities of courtesy, hospitality and kindness, which has somehow made its way into much of Southern cooking, infusing it with the flavors of love and kindness… and a taste of home.

In these free Southern cooking videos, learn how to make a chicken fried steak recipe smothered in caramelized onions. Our expert chef, David Postada, will walk you through this hearty dish with step-by-step instructions, including ingredients needed, how to season the flour and make an egg bath, how to dredge and cook the steaks, how to chop and caramelize onions, how to smother the steaks, how to make homemade mashed potatoes, and how to serve the dish. Enjoy.

Video Transcript

"This is Dave for Expert Village today and we are going to be making some Country Fried Steak. So these are going to be some of the ingredients that we are going to be using for our steak today. This will be for four people. We want four cube steaks and as you can see, these are like sirloin steaks and they have been run through a processor. You can see they are really going to be tender because the fat has been broken down. You will need one large onion and I like really sweet onions on this one so that would be your maui onion. You can even use the yellow onion but I just love these sweet onions in this recipe. You will need 8 ounces of mushrooms, one cup of flour, 1 or 2 eggs depending on how much you want to put in, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 cup of beef broth, salt and pepper to taste and you will go through this and we are going to need some oil to fry in. I am going to use some light Olive Oil for this and we will be making mashed potatoes. "