How to Prepare Beef Cutlets for Chicken Fried Steak

Series Summary

If you’ve ever experienced the comfort of Southern hospitality, you know that the American South is home to a people that eat some of the richest, tastiest foods on the menu. Southern cuisine is well known for being a combination of many different influences; its recipes comprise some of the best foods that people have to offer the world over. And the brilliance of most of their dishes is their fundamental simplicity—chicken fried steak, potato salad, and barbecue are all contain relatively ingredient

In this free cooking tips video series, learn how to prepare some traditional Southern dishes like fried chicken, homemade mashed potatoes, cream gravy, and chicken fried steak. Our chef will walk you through each recipe step-by-step, with techniques for getting the right consistencies and flavors. Whether you’re from the South or not, try to fix some of these meals and see if your taste buds don’t soar with enthusiasm. There’s a reason everyone talks slowly in the South; they’re distracted by the memories of great tasting food.

Video Transcript

" Hi! Today we are going to show you how to make southern style chicken fried steak from scratch. I've got some beef cutlets here from the grocery store and what I've done is seasoned them pretty highly on both sides. Some folks will like to try to put all their seasonings inside the flour and then dredge the steak through the flour and after the breading process is done, the seasonings just kind of fade into a non-existence. So what I've done is taken some fresh ground sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper as well as some garlic salt. I seasoned both sides of the guys to get them ready for the breading. What we are going to do is just do a double breading of sorts on these. So we are just going to dip these beef cutlets inside the flour first and this is just an all purpose flour. I am just going to kind of dust it on both sides so that there is even coverage. We are going to use flour as our final breading. We showed you in previous videos that you can use all different kinds of things; tortilla chips, bread crumbs that kind of thing. So we are going from the flour into our milk and our egg wash here and I am going to dip those on both sides. I'm going to let the residual milk and egg wash drip off of there and we are going to go straight back into the flour that we just came from and get a nice even breading on this. This just makes a nicer fresher product. A lot of restaurants these days will have chicken fried steaks that are already frozen and breaded and they are just no where close to the quality and the flavor profile that you get when you do a breading to order like this. That is the second part of the breading procedure. All I'm going to do is knock off the excess flour here and put this on some parchment paper and we will come right back and show you how to do these on our counter top fryer. I've got it set at about 335 degrees and I've got the green light and it is ready to go here. We'll come right back and show you how to fry these up. "