Southern Chicken Fried Steak Paleo and Low Carb
A low-carb, grain-free, breaded, and pan-fried, southern chicken fried steak with homemade mushroom gravy.
Cubed steak that is breaded with grain-free breading, seasonings, and pan-fried in avocado oil. I also included a grain-free low-carb mushroom gravy recipe.
So easy to make this savory comfort food. I served mine with the mushroom gravy, but my son ate his plain, as he does not like gravy, which is strange, even for a picky eater.
Add your favorite mashed cauliflower recipe and you have a tasty southern comfort food meal.
If you don't like mushroom gravy, then you could also use this Easy Keto Gravy Recipe that does not contain any mushrooms.
Southern Chicken Fried Steak
Ingredients:
- Chicken Fried Steak
- 4 (4 ounce) cubed steaks (16 ounces total)
- ⅓ cup almond flour
- ¼ cup sunflower meal grind up raw sunflower seeds in a magic bullet type blender or processor
- 1 tablespoon golden flax meal * optional
- ½ teaspoon thyme
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ⅓ teaspoon black pepper
- 3 ½ tablespoon avocado oil or olive oil, or rendered bacon grease
MUSHROOM GRAVY RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
- 3 tablespoon butter
- ⅓ cup chopped onion
- 2 cloves garlic peeled and minced
- 2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 1 ½ cups chicken broth divided into ¼ cup and 1 ¼ cup (homemade or organic is best)
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt *optional
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Instructions:
- In a large fry pan over medium high heat, melt butter until foamy. Add onions, garlic, and mushrooms. Saute until onions are translucent and mushrooms are browned. Remove from heat to cool a little.
- In a blender or processor, add ¼ cup chicken broth. Once onions and mushrooms are warm not hot, add the onions, mushrooms, garlic and butter to the blender with the chicken broth. Blend until smooth puree forms.
- Pour mushroom puree back into the fry pan again and put on medium high heat. Add the remaining 1 ¼ cups chicken broth, and ¼ teaspoon sea salt to mushroom puree. Stir together and heat until bubbling, then turn down heat to low.
- In a large bowl combine: almond flour, ground sunflower meal, optional flax meal, thyme, garlic powder, sea salt, and pepper. mix together well. Set aside.
- Heat 3 ½ tablespoon oil a large frying pan to medium high on the stove top. Place cubed steak in the almond flour mixture and cover. Flip steak over and coat with flour mixture. Repeat with other cubed steaks. Fry steaks in hot oil for 2 to 4 minutes. on each side until crisp and done in center.
- Remove form pan and serve with optional gravy
Nutritional Data:
Nutritional Data for Steaks without Gravy: Servings: 1 (4 ounces) steak out of 4, Cal: 356, Carbs: 5g / Net Carbs: 3 g, , Fiber: 2 g, Fat: 20 g, Protein; 32 g, Sugar: 0 g, Sodium: 276 mg / without added sea salt: 42 mg
Nutritional Data for Just the Gravy: Serving size: 2 tbsp, Servings: 10, Cal: 38, Carbs: 1 g / Net Carbs; 1g, Fiber; 0g, Fat: 4 g, Protein:1 g, Sugar: 1 g, Sodium: 201 mg / without added sea salt: 154 mg
* all nutritional data are estimates based on the products I used*
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Southern Chicken Fried Steak Paleo
Ingredients
- Chicken Fried Steak
- 4 (16 ounces) cubed steaks
- ⅓ cup almond flour
- ¼ cup sunflower meal grind up raw sunflower seeds in a magic bullet type blender or processor
- 1 tablespoon golden flax meal * optional
- ½ teaspoon thyme
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ⅓ teaspoon black pepper
- 3 ½ tablespoon avocado oil or olive oil, or rendered bacon grease
- GRAVY RECIPE:
- 3 tablespoon butter
- ⅓ cup chopped onion
- 2 cloves garlic peeled and minced
- 2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 1 ½ cups chicken broth divided into ¼ cup and 1 ¼ cup (homemade or organic is best)
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt *optional
Instructions
- In a large fry pan over medium high heat, melt butter until foamy. Add onions, garlic and mushrooms. Saute until onions are translucent and mushrooms are browned. Remove from heat to cool a little.
- In a blender or processor, add ¼ cup chicken broth. Once onions and mushrooms are warm not hot, add the onions, mushrooms, garlic and butter to the blender with the chicken broth. Blend until a smooth puree forms.
- Pour mushroom puree back into the fry pan again and put on medium high heat. Add the remaining 1 ¼ cups chicken broth, and ¼ teaspoon sea salt to mushroom puree. Stir together and heat until bubbling, then turn down heat to low.
- In a large bowl combine: almond flour, ground sunflower meal, optional flax meal, garlic powder, thyme, sea salt, and pepper. mix together well. Set aside.
- Heat 3 ½ tablespoon oil a large frying pan to medium high on the stove top. Place cubed steak in the almond flour mixture and cover. Flip steak over and coat with flour mixture. Repeat with other cubed steaks. Fry steaks in hot oil for 2 to 4 minutes. on each side until crisp and done in center.
- Remove form pan and serve with optional gravy
Stephanie Sandoval says
Can I use just almond flower and flax meal? Add more almond flour instead of sunflower flour?
Stacey says
Stephanie, you can use all almond flour.
Shannon Brown says
I really hate frying anything on the stove... I wonder if I could oven fry these?? I have also found that I LOVE Celery Root Mash..
Stacey says
Shannon, I'm thinking you could if you oiled the baking sheet and flip over the meat halfway through baking time. Although it maybe a bit less crispy and more like a "shake and bake" style recipe. I hear you on the frying (so messy sometimes). I'm thinking about getting and trying an air fryer soon.
Carol says
Forgive me, but I have no idea what a cube steak is? Are they normally tender just fried? Thank you.
Stacey says
Hi Carol, no worries. A cube steak is a sirloin or round steak that has been pounded tender by a meat tenderizer (a mallet with a waffle looking pattern on the end). You can do this yourself, but the meat counter or meat section usually sells them already tenderized and ready to use. I but them already tenderized, as it is an inexpensive cut of meat. If you see a steak that looks like a burger patty with a waffle indentation pattern on it, then that is it.
Collin says
Sounds so yummy!! I imagine a mashed cauli could also be tweaked to serve as a yummy white gravy for this as well. Will have to try! So raw sunflower seeds -- where do u get those?
Stacey says
Hi Collin, Yes a white gravy would also be good as well. I get the shelled sunflower seeds in the baking section with the other nuts and seeds. You can also use the roasted one if you can't find the raw seeds.
Sonia says
This looks delicious! Chicken fried steak was one of my hubby's favorite dishes in his carb days. Two questions- 1) would it work in the air fryer and 2) could i replace the almond flour with pulverized pork rinds? Or would that be too crispy? Hubby is not big on almond flour.
Stacey says
Yes, on the pork rinds, Sonia and a "maybe" on the air-fryer because I have not tried it yet.
Rachel says
For some reason, chicken fried steak is one of those things that I haven't eaten since going Paleo years ago! High time that situation was corrected, don't you think?
Stacey says
Of course Rachel. You need some paleofried food.
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Stacey says
Emily, oh my goodness! How incredibly sweet of you! I have never been nominated for anything, except "most bashful" in high school (but I didn't win that one), lol. Thank you