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Chicken Fried Steak with Country Cream Gravy
October 2, 2015 by Judith Hanneman
Comfort food doesn’t get any better than chicken fried steak. Combine that with a delicately herb-flavored cream gravy and it’s like winning the jackpot!
I’ve always liked chicken fried steak but in times past, I’d confine this dish to something I only ate in a restaurant.
Reason for that is I’d tried many times to make a decent one where the coating actually stayed on the steak, but I was never successful at getting it to adhere.
I’d thought about this meal just the other day and searched Google for some recipes to see if I was missing some step or whatever. Most of the recipes I happened upon were standard coat with flour and…
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