Delicious! Low-Fat Chicken Fried or Country Fried Steak

Ripperjtl's Note:

My family loves this meal & it's easy to make. It's a great tasting, low-fat dinner. Just add your favorite side dish or vegetable. This comes from the cookbook, "1,001 More Low-Fat Recipes", which has a ton of good recipes in it. You can alter the ingredients to add some of the fat back in if you don't prefer no-fat ingredients. Enjoy!

• Total Time: 1 hrs
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

for steak

• 1 lb boneless eye of round beef steak (4 steaks - 4oz. each, fat trimmed)
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 2 egg whites or 1/4 cup Egg Beaters egg substitute
• 1/4 cup skim milk
• 3/4 cup dry breadcrumbs (seasoned or unseasoned your choice)
• vegetable oil cooking spray
• salt & pepper

for gravy

• 2 tablespoons margarine
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 cups skim milk or 2 cups fat-free half-and-half
• 1/2 teaspoon beef bouillon granules
• 1/4 cup nonfat sour cream
• salt & pepper, to taste

Directions:

1. Pound the steaks to about 1/4 inch thickness. If the steaks are thicker, you will have to increase the cooking time.
2. Combine egg whites & milk.
3. Coat steaks lightly with flour.
4. Dip Floured Steaks in Egg mixture & coat with Breadcrumbs.
5. Spray both sides of steak.
6. Generously spray skillet with cooking spray & heat over medium heat until hot.
7. Cook steaks over medium heat until browned (about 5 minutes on each side).
8. Cover & cook over LOW heat until steaks are tender, 30-40 minutes, turn ocasionally.
9. Season with Salt & pepper, serve with gravy, instructions are below.
10. Melt margarine in medium saucepan.
11. Stir in Flour & cook over medium-low heat 1 minute, STIRRING CONSTANTLY.
12. Whisk in milk & beef crystals, heat to boiling.
13. Boil until thickened, about 1 minute, STIRRING CONSTANTLY.
14. Stir in Sour Cream & cook for 1-2 minutes, season with salt & pepper to your liking.

Reviews

[April1]

I didn't make the meat part of it because we had country fried steak from another source but my husband made the gravy to go with ours...it was very good! I will be making this again!! Thanks for sharing.

[Shelvin]

Welp, I had the same problem. I couldn't keep the coating on either. I think it would have been better if you just didn't mess with the cooking spray and used a small amount of beef broth or oil instead. Everyone knows that you can't simmer on cooking spray, right? Otherwise, everything else was great! I'll listen to my instincts more closely next time...

[gaylasikes]

I'm not sure what happened, but I followed the recipe and couldn't keep the coating to stay on. The meat did come out tender but next time I will try another way. Not bad for low fat. I didn't try the gravy.