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Chicken Fried Steak with an Asterisk
(Chicken Fried Pork on the griddle)
We have done chicken fried steak for years, but THIS time we are going to do it on the Blackstone 28 inch griddle for the first time! I never thought about doing chicken fried steak on a griddle... That's the first asterisk...
The second asterisk comes with what we are using for meat. Some of the best chicken fried steaks we have ever had weren't beef cube steaks at all - but pork beaten into submission, breaded and fried! Pork makes an excellent chicken fried steak like substance!
We buy pork loins in bulk when they go on sale and cut them into slices that we use quite often.
Here's my recipe for Chicken Fried Steak with an Asterisk...
Ingredients | |
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2 cups all-purpose flour (Or frying flour) | |
2 teaspoons baking powder | |
1 teaspoon baking soda | |
1 teaspoon black (Or white) pepper | |
1 teaspoon salt | |
1 ½ cups buttermilk | |
1 egg | |
1 tablespoon hot pepper sauce (e.g. Tabasco™) | |
2 cloves garlic, minced (Or a heaping tablespoon of minced stuff out of a bottle) |
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Preparation
Place 2 cups of flour in a shallow bowl. In a separate shallow bowl, stir together the baking powder, baking soda, pepper, and salt; stir in the buttermilk, egg, Tabasco Sauce, and finely garlic. This is your "batter".
Dredge each piece of meat, first in the flour, then in the batter, and again in the flour. Pat the flour onto the surface of each steak so they are completely coated with dry flour. Set aside for 10-15 minutes. (setting aside to let it set is IMPORTANT!
Heat your griddle up to about 325 degrees. (We figured this out the hard way!)
Fry the steaks until evenly golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes per side.
Place fried steaks on a cookie cooling rack with paper towels underneath them on a half sheet pan or cookie sheet to drain. Set aside for them to "rest".
Make your gravy and sides!
And then fight off an excited family to get it all to the table without people tasting things before it actually makes it to the table...
The best compliment a good cook can have is a "silent dinner table" - because everyone if too preoccupied with stuffing food in their faces to chit-chat!