Most of you like me. Some of you do not, because you are goobers and soy boys. But, for purposes of this thread, let's all come together and let bygones be bygones. Save your trolling and name calling for another thread, please. Below is a picture of a "chicken fried steak" from a cafeteria called Clebournes in Houston. AWESOME place. And that chicken fried steak is INCREDIBLE. I have tried to make it several times, but I just can't ever seem to make it taste anything like chicken fried steak. I am looking for ANY hints or tips as to how I might make something that tastes like it. Here is what I know:
1. I used to work a Luby's cafeteria. They made the same damned kind of chicken fried steak, and it tasted basically the exact same! BUT, they stopped making it years ago. When they made it they called it the "breaded beef cutlet", not a chicken friend steak.
2. While I was there, I watched them make it. So far as I can tell all they used for the crust was flour and saltine crackers. The only spices were salt and pepper. They would (I assume after coating the meat with milk, eggs or some combo, and then rolling in the cracker/flour mix) throw it on this big flat grill thing, just a big flat chunk of metal, and they has these big ladels where they would just ladel some oil on top of them.
3. I've tried to make them exactly as above, but it never comes out right, never even looks the same really. I've tried different cuts of meat too. Different cracker types, even tried bread crumbs and crap, nothing works. I've tried using little oil, consistent with them just ladeling on some oil as above, but no dice. Although my next step might be to try and use even less oil to try and make it brown more. But the taste just is not there. Its such a pure, clean taste that anything I've ever made, and other restaurant chicken fried steaks, cannot match.
Anyways, if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. If I could figure out how to make this chicken fried steak, a good seafood/shrimp gumbo like a place close to me (for another thread), and tex mex cheese enchiladas and tacos like I had when I grew up (also for another thread), my life would pretty much be complete.
Thank you gents, and, as always, Godspeed!
1. I used to work a Luby's cafeteria. They made the same damned kind of chicken fried steak, and it tasted basically the exact same! BUT, they stopped making it years ago. When they made it they called it the "breaded beef cutlet", not a chicken friend steak.
2. While I was there, I watched them make it. So far as I can tell all they used for the crust was flour and saltine crackers. The only spices were salt and pepper. They would (I assume after coating the meat with milk, eggs or some combo, and then rolling in the cracker/flour mix) throw it on this big flat grill thing, just a big flat chunk of metal, and they has these big ladels where they would just ladel some oil on top of them.
3. I've tried to make them exactly as above, but it never comes out right, never even looks the same really. I've tried different cuts of meat too. Different cracker types, even tried bread crumbs and crap, nothing works. I've tried using little oil, consistent with them just ladeling on some oil as above, but no dice. Although my next step might be to try and use even less oil to try and make it brown more. But the taste just is not there. Its such a pure, clean taste that anything I've ever made, and other restaurant chicken fried steaks, cannot match.
Anyways, if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears. If I could figure out how to make this chicken fried steak, a good seafood/shrimp gumbo like a place close to me (for another thread), and tex mex cheese enchiladas and tacos like I had when I grew up (also for another thread), my life would pretty much be complete.
Thank you gents, and, as always, Godspeed!
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