Country Fried Steak with Biscuits and Gravy, Paula Deen style

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Country Fried Steak with Biscuits and Gravy

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Show: Paula's Home Cooking

Episode: On the Road



http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_33506,00.html

Steak and Gravy:
1 1/2 cups, plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
8 (4-ounce) tenderized beef round steak (have butcher run them through cubing machine)
1 teaspoon House Seasoning, recipe follows
1 teaspoon seasoning salt
2 cups buttermilk
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 quart whole milk
1/2 teaspoon monosodium glutamate (recommended: Ac'cent), optional
1 bunch green onions, or 1 medium yellow onion, sliced

Basic Biscuits:
1 package yeast
1/2 cup lukewarm water
5 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
3/4 cup solid shortening (recommended: Crisco)
2 cups buttermilk

Steak and Gravy: Combine 1 1/2 cups flour and 1/4 teaspoon of pepper in a small bowl. Sprinkle 1 side of the meat with the House Seasoning and the other side with the seasoning salt, and then dredge the meat in buttermilk and then flour. Heat 1/2 cup oil in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat. Add 2 or 4 of the steaks to the hot oil and fry until browned, about 5 to 6 minutes per side. Remove each steak to a paper towel-lined plate to drain. Repeat with the remaining steaks, adding up to 1/4 cup more oil, as needed.

Make the gravy by adding the 2 tablespoons remaining flour to the pan drippings, scraping the bottom with a wooden spoon. Stir in the remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and the salt. Reduce the heat to medium and cook, stirring frequently, until the flour is medium brown and the mixture is bubbly. Slowly add the whole milk and the Ac'cent, if using stirring constantly. Return the steaks to the skillet and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat to low, and place the onions on top of the steaks. Cover the pan, and let simmer for 30 minutes.

Biscuits: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Dissolve yeast in warm water; set aside. Mix dry ingredients together. Cut in shortening. Add yeast and buttermilk and mix well. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and roll out to desired thickness. Cut with small biscuit cutter and place on greased baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown.

Split biscuits in half and top with country fried steak and drizzle with gravy.

House Seasoning:
1 cup salt
1/4 cup black pepper
1/4 cup garlic powder

Mix ingredients together and store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. Wow! Less than a cup of vegetable oil!

Paula goes low-cholesterol (comparatively speaking.)

[spinbaby]

4. Really, I can hardly believe it's her recipe

Where's all the butter?

:9

[Benfea]

5. Vegetable oil instead of lard?

Will wonders never cease?

[Ellen Forradalom]

7. Where's the pound of bacon?

and the can of Crisco?

[Benfea]

8. Tell me it at least includes a quart of mayo -NT

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. Not even Miracle Whip

:cry:

[Benfea]

10. She's gone California on us! -NT

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. You bet I have.

The main fats in my diet are avocados, almonds and olive oil.

[Benfea]

13. You're not Paula Deen. :P -NT

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Mmmmmm that looks good!

I haven't had country fried steak in I don't know how long :9

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. That biscuit recipe looks like a recipe for dinner rolls...

but, who cares.... yum :9

[nomorenomore08]

6. If I ever wanted to commit suicide slowly and deliciously, I'd buy one of Paula's cookbooks...

:evilgrin:

[Skittles]

17. just listen to her drawl

that'll kill you too :o

[Ellen Forradalom]

19. If I could eat that way and remain in top form

you bet I would. But alas, no.

[Brigid]

11. Anybody want . . .

the name of my cardiologist? You're going to need it. ;)

[Robeson]

14. Perhaps she should throw in an aspirin with that. It would help with the...

...clogging arteries.

[Fox Mulder]

15. Wow...where's the four sticks of butter?

This is low in fat and low in cholesterol for her.

[Connonym]

16. I recently read her memoirs and even she teases about her own use of butter

but she's not apologetic about it. I've never cooked one of her recipes but I like her sass.

[KatyMan]

18. Not NEARLY

enough gravy on the steak or the biscuits. and what's with the bamboo? Can't wait to get back home to Texas...no biscuits and gravy in England...:(

[Miss Carly]

20. That steak and those biscuits should be drowning in gravy!

and where is the fried okra? and the pecan pie for dessert.....

that bamboo best not be on my plate, it would end up in the ashtray

Carly

[bamademo]

21. I have never made biscuits with yeast.

That jest ain't right. :-)

[philosophie_en_rose]

22. NOT PAULA DEEN STYLE

Don't do it! You have so much to live for!