Chicken Fried Steak? What the hell is it?

[Swede]

:shrug:

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. No offense, but... DUH!!!!!

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[trof]

2. OK. Since you asked:

Chicken fried steak (also known as pan-fried steak,<1> CFS or country fried steak) is a dish consisting of a piece of steak (tenderized cube steak) coated with seasoned flour and pan-fried. It is associated with Texas cuisine. Its name may be due to the similarity in preparation styles between chicken fried steak and fried chicken.

Chicken fried steak resembles the Austrian dish Wiener Schnitzel (known in Latin American cuisine as milanesa), a tenderized veal or beef cutlet, coated with flour, eggs, and bread crumbs, and then fried. It is also similar to the recipe for Scottish collops.<1>

The precise origins of the dish are unclear, but many sources attribute its development to German and Austrian immigrants to Texas in the 19th century, who brought recipes for Wiener Schnitzel from Europe to the USA.<1> Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County on the Texas South Plains, claims to be the birthplace of chicken fried steak, and hosts an annual celebration accordingly.<2> John "White Gravy" Neutzling of Bandera in the Texas Hill Country also claims to have invented the dish.<3>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_fried_steak

And now I WANT some!
:-)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. One of my clients serves a variant for breakfast as "chicken fried chicken"...

...chicken breast instead of cube steak, preparation and gravy are the same.

I grew up eating cube steaks once a week...that's as close as my family ever got to "steak." The small-town butcher who sold them did a good job...the round steak he started with was a pretty decent cut. But since I have lived in California, cube steaks have been shit. Tough, shoe-leather meat, whether they have been "tenderized" or not. I'm sure I could shop around for a butcher who does a better job.

My mom used to fry the cube steaks in the pan, and after removing them, dump in some Minute Rice and scrape up the browned bits from the steak. Then there's be some kind of canned vegetable, usually string beans, on the side. It was one of my favorite meals, but I did always hate the "canned" taste of canned vegetables.

:toast:

[Major Nikon]

10. The Germans contributed considerably to Texas cuisine

Anyone who has eaten German wiener-schnitzel can draw comparisons to chicken fried steak.

Believe it or not, the Texas BBQ tradition was also started by German immigrants. German immigrants quite often ran meat markets in Texas. They would often smoke their left over meats for preservation. Migrant workers(often black) who worked the farms created a demand for the smokes meats which reminded them of smoked pork made in other areas. Since the meat markets weren't a restaurant, the black workers could eat there (served on butcher's paper). The Germans created a cottage industry around supplying the migrant workers with "BBQ" and the tradition caught on with the local population. To this day, many of the truly authentic Texas BBQ joints are billed as meat markets and still serve their BBQ on butchers paper.

[whistler162]

3. Nirvana! Food of the gods.

[blueamy66]

16. damn straight

I love it!

[oneshooter]

4. It is "Damn fine eatin!!!"

[Cid_B]

6. F'ing Delicious...

[bigwillq]

7. I think it's very good.

YUM! :)

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

8. Chicken Fried Steak is the food of the Artery Clog Gods!

And it is wonderful!

(I need to find a little wolf eating a steak smiley)

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Yah, so tasty, and so off my safe foods list. *sigh*

[seabeyond]

9. it is yum and i make it very well. beef pounded, floured, fried with white gravy.

lots and lots of gravy.

i thought it funny, also, when i moved to texas.

[krispos42]

11. If it's big enough... the last thing you'll ever eat.

You'll die happy, though...

[begin_within]

12. It's a heart attack on a plate.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. Weinerschnitzel.

Take veal scallops (long strips), dredge in egg and buttermilk, then drag through bread crumbs.
Sautee in butter in an electric skillet. Take the extra egg/buttermilk mixture and pour it on the meat pieces.

Yummy!!

[Digit]

19. My mother's recipe for Weinerschnitzel

Take veal cutlets, dredge in flour, then in beaten egg (can add small amt of milk), then lastly dredge in plain breadcrumbs. Fry in butter until golden brown.

I have also done this using chicken breasts I have sliced into 1/2 inch thick pieces and it is difficult to tell the difference. It definitely keeps the cost down considering the cost of veal!

My mother was from Germany and this was her method....and my favorite dish!

Oh, and homemade mashed potatoes go great with this!

I am hungry just thinking about it!

:9

[fishwax]

14. I'm not sure exactly, but I've got a great recipe for it involving corn flakes

:bounce:

[blogslut]

15. It is the measure by which I rate Texas/Southern-Style Restaurants

If they do the Chicken-Fried Steak right, then it's a good place to eat.

[oneshooter]

17. Try Goodsons in Tomball. Absolutely the best CFS, next to mine. n/t

[Bake]

18. It's a piece of beef, rolled in flour and fried in a skillet like chicken

And it's goddamn good!! And dammit I'm hungry.

:hi:

Bake

[MrsBrady]

21. It's usually a chopped steak or a pounded boneless steak

dipped in a flour mixture or batter mixture...
depending on regional and personal preference.
and then fried to perfection.

If it's greasy, they didn't do it right.
Yea, it's fried...but you won't see any runny grease coming off my steak.



and thanks to you: I think it might be Friday night dinner.

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. It's a kind of tall dishwasher, preeminently from Wales, often associated with smelt fishing.