Country-Styled Steak in White Gravy

Another one of my favorite recipes that my late grandmother taught me how to make is her Country-Styled Steak. When she lived here with me, I finally got the nerve to try and recreate it, made a total disaster out of it, and had to get her help. But she taught me well, and while I will never be able to make anything quite as good as she does, it comes pretty darn close to hers. :)


What you will need


Cube Steak
Half an onion, diced
milk
water
garlic powder
flour


Simple enough, right?


What You Do


Get out your giant electric fry skillet, go ahead and preheat it on 350, and put enough oil in the bottom to lightly coat it. Don't put too much, or your steak will be swimming in that stuff, and you, my friends, will spend your night in the bathroom. 

Sprinkle some garlic powder and meat tenderizer (if you want too) on the steaks. On a plate, dump some flour, and coat each cube steak in the flour. Once that is done put them in the electric fry pan. As soon as your done with that, go ahead and dump in your diced onions. Turn your steaks over once so they can cook on both sides. Once they are cooked through, remove them and put them on a plate. 

Now, there is going to be some onions and grease left in the bottom of the pan, and that's good. Let it stay there. Take some flower and sprinkle it in there (I'd guess around 1/4 of a cup) and take a fork and mix that flour in with all of that grease. It will look like lumpy white balls in there. 


Next, take a large cup (and by large I mean something bigger than a plastic drinking cup) if you don't have a large cup, you're going to use a regular cup and do this step twice. Fill the cup with half water, and half milk. Dump it into the electric pan. This is what is going to make your gravy, so if you feel like this won't be enough, add more. Just always make sure your milk to water is consistently the same.

Let the electric pan heat until the milk-water mixture starts boiling. Now for the fun part. 


Start sprinkling flour into the mixture while it is boiling, and constantly stir stir stir stir. Do NOT let it sit unstired because it will stick, and your gravy will be a big, hot, burnt mess. Please make sure this mixture is boiling or you will have very lumpy gravy with cute flour balls in there, that don't taste so great. 


Keep adding flour a little at a time until gravy starts to thicken. You don't want  it to be too thick, because it will thicken as it cools off. 

Add the cooked steak back into the pan, and cover it, and let it simmer for about 20 minutes. If you want, you can add salt to the mixture, or add garlic (like I do) because I love garlic :) 

After 20 minutes, cut off the heat, let it sit for about 10 minutes, and then add it to your plate of sides, and enjoy!