eightstarwish asked:
I need to cook chicken fried steak saturday night for about 40 people. I would like to pre-prep it before going up to the lodge, but I’m not sure how well it will hold up. Should I just bring the ingrediants and do it there, or will battering it then freezing it work also? I’ve never had to batter then freeze anything before, but I know that’s how they do it in restaurants.
Hatfield
11:43 pm - May 15th, 2006
I am a former chef and have done them for service and like you a function, my suggestion is to marinate them with the seasonings, a bit of oil and buttermilk, make up your seasoned flour mixture and take it to were your cooking them.
It takes 10 minutes to do them, and if you freeze them, when they cook they tend to separate, what I mean is the breading gets a bit of moisture between it and the meat, so when are cooked and they cut into them they will literally disintergrate.
I would bread them one site, make your sides or the cream gravy, then fry them off the marinate keeps the meat moist and tenderizes the meat.