With cooler temperatures now at night, comfort food starts to rear its head more often. So, last night’s menu was Chicken Fried Steak with Bacon Sausage Gravy, mashed potatoes and steamed peas. Total comfort food! Photos will be inserted as soon as my new computer arrives! Enjoy the recipe!
Ingredients:
Steaks:
2 #’s round steak or cube steak, thin sliced and tenderized with a mallet
1 cup of flour
4 shakes of garlic powder
2 shakes of Hungarian paprika
3 shakes of onion powder
2 shakes of Spike
4 twists of fresh ground pepper
2 eggs beaten with a good splash of milk
Vegetable oil for frying
Gravy:
3/4 # New York Style sausage
6 slices of peppered bacon
1/4 cup of flour
2 1/2 cups of hot milk
Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Place the sausage in a baking pan sprayed with non stick spray. Bake for 15 minutes and turn. Bake until cooked through. Cut the sausage into 1/3 inch slices. Set aside. Save the fat drippings.
Fry up the peppered bacon until crispy. When cooled, crumble and add to the sausage. Take the bacon drippings and add to the sausage drippings to make 1/4 cup of drippings.
Bacon & Sausage Ready for the Gravy
In a bowl beat the eggs with the splash of milk. Take a cooling rack and a piece of foil. Lay the foil under the rack. In a gallon size plastic bag combine the flour with all the seasonings. Shake the bag and you are now good to go. Take a piece of the steak and shake it in the flour. Next dip it in the egg mixture, then back into the flour bag to coat a second time. Set the coated piece on the rack to dry. Repeat this with all the meat.
Steak is Ready to Fry!
In a frying pan, heat oil over medium high heat enough vegetable to coat the pan. When the oil is hot fry the meat two pieces at a time until browned on both sides.
Steak is Cooking. Can You Smell It?
With the meat all cooked, in a pan add the sausage/bacon drippings. Heat over medium heat and slowly add the flour. Gradually add the hot milk a bit at a time stirring constantly until thickened and bubbly. Add the sausage and bacon bits. Serve over the steak along with mashed potatoes and steamed peas.
Now Grab a Glass of Wine and Enjoy!
Serve Merlot with this recipe!
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