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What's the deeaaaall with chicken fried steak? Is it chicken? Is it steak?

And how about chicken fried chicken? Chicken that's fried like chicken, but it's not fried chicken?

Southern food general, what are your favorite southern meals?

>> No.4187576

Based Chicken and Dumplings

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>What's the deeaaaall with chicken fried steak? Is it chicken? Is it steak?
Jerry, it's steak. Cube steak. Top round or sirloin pulverized into tender deliciousness.
>And how about chicken fried chicken? Chicken that's fried like chicken, but it's not fried chicken?
It's boneless, skinless chicken served with gravy on top. To think of it another way, it's exactly how chicken fried steak is served, but it's chicken instead of beef.
>Southern food general, what are your favorite southern meals?
All of it. I love smothered pork chops and rice with collard greens and biscuits.

>> No.4187588

No love for fried catfish?

>> No.4187592

>>4187588

Fried catfish is alright once in a while. It gets old though. Saltwater fish is preferable.

>> No.4187594 [DELETED] 

>>4187588
Of course.

>> No.4187596

who in their right mind would serve chicken fried steak without mashed potatoes?

since you already mentioned my favorite southern dish, i'll put in a vote for biscuits and gravy... honestly anything with delicious gravy is fine by me.

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I've been wondering about chicken fried steak too, OP. Someone once explained it to me on /ck/, too, but I was drunk so so much for that.

>> No.4187631

chicken fried steak is chuck steak (read: beef) that has been tenderized and usually soaked in buttermilk and deep fried. It's essentially kentucky fried beef.

>> No.4187638

>>4187618
It's a thin cut of steak (may be round or cube,) which is tenderized with a mallet, breaded like chicken with an egg, milk, flour, and seasoning mixture several times, then fried in a pan.

It's pretty delicious, everyone seems to have their own seasoning twists or variations to the recipe. It's a relaxed recipe.

>> No.4187640

>>4187631
>deep fried
Yeah no.

>> No.4187647

>>4187640
>>4187631
Actually It's not chuck steak either and buttermilk isn't involved. Although I said it was a relaxed recipe, you just completely pull this out of your ass.

>> No.4187653

It is beef that is prepared in a way associated with fried chicken; the beef is dredged through buttermilk and flour, sometimes eggs, and deep fried. The end.

>> No.4187672

>>4187638
I get it now. We eurofats call them schnitzels, after the famous wiener schnitzels, which is - surprise surprise - a flattened steak breaded and pan-fried. Small world, huh.

>> No.4187679

>>4187672
That's where chicken fried steak originated from. I grew up in a German community in Texas, and every restaurant served schnitzels and chicken fried steak. Man, I miss that.....

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I am making chicken fried steak nuggets for dinner tonight with cream gravy... It is marinating in buttermilk right now. I am super excited. We don't eat stuff like this very often, it is considered a treat.
This is how I make it.
I cut up some cube steak into square, bite sized pieces and I cover them in buttermilk. I marinate them, covered, in the refrigerator. I then break two eggs into1/2 cup of milk and use a fork to mix it all up. I dredge the marinated meat in the milk and egg mixture and then I dredge the meat in seasoned AP flour (flour mixed with salt,lots of pepper, pinch of brown sugar, oregano, paprika, cayenne, thyme, granulated garlic, and basil). After that fry the breaded meat in an electric skillet that has oil (I am using grapeseed bc that is what I have on hand) heated to 350 degrees F. I make a cream gravy (actually I use milk to make it but it is just called "cream gravy")

>> No.4187701

i enjoy chicken fried steak once in a great while. once or twice a year. usually 7 am, after a long night of drinking. delicious.

>southern food general
I am unionfag, but i lived in the south for a few years. I would say southern food, in general, does not quite get the credit it deserves. True, the south is full of chicken strip erryday fast food fat asses, but there are also some great regional specialties.
>(good) pimento cheese sandwich
> hot chicken from the black part of town
> low country (my fav subset of southern food)
> muh poboys
> muh frog legs

>> No.4187704

Comes from german immigrants. In Texas the traditional sides are mashed potatoes with cream gravy, macaroni and cheese and green beans. God damn I wish I was back in Texas right now for some Hill's cafe.

>> No.4187719

>>4187672
yep. basically southern schnitzel with a distinctively peppery cream/roux gravy. closer to breakfast gravy.

>> No.4187780

fried gator tail

god I miss Charleston so much. Every single fucking restaurant was at least great-tier.

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>>4187704
i tell ya wat

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Its a cube steak.

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>>4187780
Charleston was the first place I'd ever seen/eaten at a Sticky Fingers. I miss it too.

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The south has so much god tier food. The Georgia/South Carolina coasts are fucking gold mines.

>> No.4187820

>>4187794

I have no idea what half that shit on your plate is but I inexplicably want it.

>> No.4187832

>>4187820
Hushpuppies, deviled crab, and coleslaw. It's making me hungry just looking at it.

>> No.4187836

>>4187820

Deviled crab = originally from the southeast, not sure if its exclusive to there or not

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviled_cr

Hush puppies = basically a cornbread roll

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushpuppy

Coleslaw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_slaw

>> No.4187844

>>4187672
Sometimes the breading on the chicken fried steak is more like fried chicken than the breadcrumbs that have covered the schnitzel I've eaten

>> No.4187849

Chicken fried chicken is served exactly like chicken fried steak. It's a thin piece of boneless, skinless chicken that's been deep-fried and covered in cream gravy.

>> No.4187874

South Carolina represent

>fried okra, field peas, collared greens, mashed potatoes

live in Philly now
>nasty cheesesteaks covered in "whiz"
>kill me

>> No.4187879

>>4187874
Yeah, the whiz thing here originated elsewhere, migrated here and supplanted what was native: the original cheesesteak was provolone. Kinda sucks. If you want a good cheesesteak, make it yourself; Asian markets (yes: Asian markets) sell good-quality, thinly sliced beef meant for pho that makes an excellent cheesesteak. They cost $3,99/lb. The only issue is that the meat needs to be twice cooked or you'll wind up with a water-logged sandwich.

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Barbecue.

>> No.4188048

>>4188022
OH god...hnnnnnnnnggggggggggggh

>> No.4188147

>>4187849
>deep fried
Once again, not deep fried. Do you guys think cooking something with a dribble of oil on the skillet is deep frying?

>> No.4188188

>>4188147

to be fair, MANY places do deep fry them. i know its not the ideal, or even standard prep, but it is fairly common, especially at breakfast diners.

>> No.4188324

>>4188147
They're deep-fried, bro. If you want to be technical, they're shallow fried.

They are /not/ fried in a thin layer of oil like you seem to be suggesting.

>> No.4188413

>>4188324
I'm from Charleston, SC and we do not deep fry ours. We deep fry a lot of things, but this is not it. Me and everyone I know fries them in just enough oil to coat the bottom of the skillet. I even googled it just to make sure we weren't an oddity, and everyone else does it the same way. I guess this counts as shallow frying, but deep frying implies you are completely submersing it in oil.

>> No.4188425

>>4188413
>Me and everyone I know

Guess what? I can say the same! There's always an inch of oil at least. Enough to come halfway up the sides.

>enough oil to coat the bottom

This is not chicken fried steak. It's chicken seared steak.

Let's consult Paula Deen, the archetypal Southerner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pler_detailpage&v=1W3YyZLzPnQ#t=98s

>> No.4188456

>>4188425
>using Paula Deen as a serious example

You can research it yourself if it's that important to you, I already have. Regardless, an inch of oil doesn't constitute "deep frying" as we use the term in southern America. If it's different where you are, that's fine.

>> No.4188480

>>4188456
Why isn't she a serious example? Do you know her outside of her show? She owns one of the most successful Southern restaurants, The Lady & Sons. She absolutely deserves recognition.

I live in the South and we fry in at least an inch of oil. I don't know how else to explain that searing in a bit of oil is not frying. That's how Easterners do it on their electric griddles.

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Chicken
Fried
Bacon

with a side of gravy

>> No.4188533

hoppin john
meat loaf
dirty rice
seasoned green beans
corn bread
johnny cake
green fried maters

>> No.4189760

>>4188515

OMG that looks amazing

>> No.4189973

>Southern food

We call it "easy, cheap and fast" in my country. And you people think its something special. You just fry everything and drown your tasteless meat in heavy plastic sauces.

>> No.4191141

>>4187558
>What's the deeaaaall with chicken fried steak? Is it chicken? Is it steak?

Its a fucking steak deep fried in a chicken coating, retard.

>> No.4191147

>>4189973
Somebody's mad.

>> No.4191152

>>4191141
Newman. >=[

>> No.4191155

>>4191152
damn i love that smiley

Enlighten me Old-wiseman

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>>4189973
but southern food isn't necessarily fast. In fact the best southern foods are slow cooked masterpieces. I don't think you have fully explored what is offered as cuisine in the southern united states. Louisiana's culinary heritage alone is pretty impressive with influences from caribbean, french, spanish, native american, german, vietnamese, african, and even isleño and more. The rest of the south is a resplendent with delicacies beyond the basic fried chicken and collard greens. You should seek out it's diverse cuisine, and enjoy it, before you are so quick to disregard it. Southern food is not what you think it is.

>> No.4191193

Chicken fried steak is so Old Country Buffet or nursing home like

>> No.4191214

>>4191190
This. I've lived in the southern USA my whole life and I don't know half of the southern cuisine. There's SO many regional specialties all along the south and southern coast. It has a lot of history behind it. Some of the food was invented by the poor and the slaves who could only afford the scraps of meat that no one else wanted, and they made it into something delicious.

>> No.4191232

>>4191193
Yeah because it tastes good and even the pickiest old person will eat it.
It;s good bro.
Really good.

>> No.4191248

Could anybody refer me to a recipe for boneless, country style ribs that requires less than two hours of cooking?