Yesterday was a bit of a yucky day. It was warm but overcast and raining most of the day. Just kinda blah. I wanted some sort of comfort food and decided to do chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, and some sort of a veggie. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do something a bit different. I've loved CFS since I was a kid and I love pretty much anything Cajun. Hmmm...seemed to be a likely pairing. Here's what I came up with.
Got the rib eye cap steaks out
Here is the dredge. AP flour and a hefty dose of my Cajun seasoning
Jaccard the snot out of the steaks
Then beat the heck out of them with the meat mallet
Dredge in flour, dunk into buttermilk, then back in the flour for the final coating
Into the 360 air fryer
Got some taters cut up to make mashed taters
Got the gravy started
Perfect Cajun influenced "white" gravy
Steaks coming along nicely
All the goodies added to the taters. Time to mix them up
Money shot. CFS with gravy, mashed taters with gravy, and green beans. did somebody say "gravy" ?
It appears that our good friend John
Bearcarver
may have started yet another legacy. These 360 air fryers are becoming immensely popular here. I replied to a thread last week that I needed to start using mine more and yesterday was the perfect day. They are so versatile you can do almost anything with them.
CFS was done at 400 degrees on the air fry setting for 12 minutes. It was perfectly cooked and so tender you could cut it with a plastic soup spoon. Both of us were amazed by the tenderness. The Cajun flavor set it so far over the top, I can't begin to describe it. The most flavorful chicken fried steak I've ever had. Just way better than a basic batter. Green beans are always good. Ya just can't go wrong there. It was the gravy though that was the chart topper!! That stuff was otherworldly. Never had gravy like that but it is now my forever go-to for base gravy and it can be seasoned however you want to. This time it was with more of the Cajun seasoning, black pepper, and a tad bit of salt. It was so good I made it again this morning to top pretty much everything on my breakfast plate. One good, hearty, comfort food dinner. Sadly though it brought on another food coma. We both went back for more taters and gravy to the point that we were licking the pan. This was the ultimate comfort food meal for me.
I really liked this one!!
Robert
Got the rib eye cap steaks out
Here is the dredge. AP flour and a hefty dose of my Cajun seasoning
Jaccard the snot out of the steaks
Then beat the heck out of them with the meat mallet
Dredge in flour, dunk into buttermilk, then back in the flour for the final coating
Into the 360 air fryer
Got some taters cut up to make mashed taters
Got the gravy started
Perfect Cajun influenced "white" gravy
Steaks coming along nicely
All the goodies added to the taters. Time to mix them up
Money shot. CFS with gravy, mashed taters with gravy, and green beans. did somebody say "gravy" ?
It appears that our good friend John
Bearcarver
may have started yet another legacy. These 360 air fryers are becoming immensely popular here. I replied to a thread last week that I needed to start using mine more and yesterday was the perfect day. They are so versatile you can do almost anything with them.CFS was done at 400 degrees on the air fry setting for 12 minutes. It was perfectly cooked and so tender you could cut it with a plastic soup spoon. Both of us were amazed by the tenderness. The Cajun flavor set it so far over the top, I can't begin to describe it. The most flavorful chicken fried steak I've ever had. Just way better than a basic batter. Green beans are always good. Ya just can't go wrong there. It was the gravy though that was the chart topper!! That stuff was otherworldly. Never had gravy like that but it is now my forever go-to for base gravy and it can be seasoned however you want to. This time it was with more of the Cajun seasoning, black pepper, and a tad bit of salt. It was so good I made it again this morning to top pretty much everything on my breakfast plate. One good, hearty, comfort food dinner. Sadly though it brought on another food coma. We both went back for more taters and gravy to the point that we were licking the pan. This was the ultimate comfort food meal for me.
I really liked this one!!
Robert
