Chicken-fried Steak

is a hearty food dish in the southern USA. The dish is commonly served with mashed potatoes smothered in chicken fried steak gravy.

Chicken Fried Steak is, simply, a cut of steak (usually cheap round steak)pounded until tender and then breaded like you would bread chicken, and fried in oil. Milk, salt, and pepper are added to the grease drippings and used to make a thick gravy, which is generously poured over the steak and, usually, mashed potato