Categories: Venison

Ingredients

• 4-8 cube steaks (if you can’t find cube steak, just have your butcher run a few round steaks through the cube machine or take them home and pound them with a meat mallet on both sides)
• 1 cup (or more) olive or vegetable oil
• 1 1/2 to 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon white pepper or freshly ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt (I like Lawry’s Garlic Salt)
• dash of nutmeg or cayenne pepper
• 3-4 cups milk (evaporated milk, cream, buttermilk, or goats milk is all fine, too)
• 2 eggs, beaten

Directions

1. Place eggs in a medium-sized mixing bowl and set aside. On a plate, mix flour, garlic salt, and pepper.

2. Now, dredge the steaks in the flour mixture. I mean really coat them.

3. Dunk them in the beaten eggs and then dredge again. Be sure you don’t see any meat showing.

4. Pull out your cast iron skillet or a thick-bottomed skillet and pour in the oil. Heat the oil to 360 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature-thing might seem silly but you want a crispy outer shell instead of an oily soppy one. Trust me.

5. Fry the steaks until honey-golden on each side. swoon

6. Set on a paper-towel-lined plate. Now… for the gravy. The good stuff that whispers sweet nothings to me.

7. If there’s a lot of oil in the pan, pour off some of it but be careful not to pour off any of the crunchy bits. You’ll need about 1/4 of a cup of oil left in the bottom of the pan. Adjust the heat to medium or medium-low. Now, scrape the flour mixture leftovers into the pan (there should be about 3 tablespoons left). Use a whisk or a fork to incorporate the flour into the oil. Keep this whisking while you add the milk in a little at a time. It should be thick enough to coat the edges of the pan and your whisk/fork. If it’s too thick, just add some more milk and stir.

8. Feel free to add some extra salt and pepper. You won’t hurt my feelings. :)

9. Now, serve up those fried steaks with gravy on top. Side dishes are really up to you. You can go with the classics: mashed potatoes, egg noodles, white rice, spaetzle, or grits. I like to mix it up a bit and throw down some orzo or roasted squash. I think orzo and gravy is just a great combination.

10. Enjoy!

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