chicken fried steak, which starts with one of the cheapest and toughest cuts around, top sirloin. This is a meat tenderizer. And so now they’re ready for breading. In my dry breading station, I have 1 cup of allpurpose flour, a teaspoon each kosher salt, and cayenne pepper. Then on the wetter side of things, I have one large egg, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, and a/ teaspoon of baking soda, 1 cup of buttermilk, into some 350° Fahrenheit oil it goes, where it shall fry about 4 to 5 minutes per side. All this deep fried gunk is the key to making delicious gravy. 2 to 3 tablespoons worth of leftover fry oil into which we’re going to dump half an onion finely minced. Add two or three crushed cloves of garlic/4 cup of flour as our eventual thickener. Then we are slowly whisking in about a half a cup of beeftock and the star of the show, one cup of light cream. Going to season with kosher salt, freshly ground pepper, and an optional sprinkle of cayenne pepper.

29 Comments

  1. Top sirloin is not one of the toughest part of beef. Round steak is. I regularly fry up top sirloin and medium rare is perfect. Top sirloin also makes a delicious roast. I have had friends think I was serving prime rib.

  2. that's a way better steak than is usually used. norm is bottom round. him saying sirloin is a cheap cut is nonsense

  3. Babish: don’t say this is a classic if you aren’t following the authentic recipe.

    • the steak is a top round, not top sirloin
    • the steak is cubed(a scoring technique), not tenderized like this.
    •gravy is supposed to my smooth, and there is no chunky onions or garlic in the gravy
    •you should be seasoning the batter, not the gravy

  4. Sir, that gravy recipe is fightin' words. Southern gravy is just bechamel with a ton of black pepper. And you get a better crust doing your panne as flour > egg > crushed Ritz crackers.

  5. I love all of Andrew’s content but I do hope we see Binging make a comeback as a regular series