Recipe: Tasty Swiss Steak

Swiss Steak. Frozen chopped bell peppers worked fine. For dinner tonight, try Alton Brown's Swiss Steak cutlets from Good Eats on Food Network, cooked in bacon drippings and smothered in an oniony beef gravy. In small bowl, mix flour, mustard and salt.

Tough cuts of meat go through a mechanical tenderizer, or a swissing machine, and come out the other end with cube-shaped indentations. In a large nonstick skillet, brown cube steaks on both sides in oil over medium-high heat; remove and set aside. Add the tomatoes, tomato sauce and bouillon. You can cook Swiss Steak using 12 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Swiss Steak

1. Prepare of flour.
2. Prepare of salt.
3. It's of black pepper.
4. Prepare of dry basil leaves.
5. You need of round steak.
6. Prepare of vegetable oil.
7. Prepare of stalks celery.
8. Prepare of onion chopped.
9. It's of carrots chopped.
10. You need of 14.5 oz diced tomatoes.
11. Prepare of worcestershire sauce.
12. Prepare of brown sugar.

Swiss steak is often confused with Salisbury Steak, but there is a difference between the two. A Salisbury steak is made with ground beef and shaped into a patty while Swiss steak is actually steak! Salisbury Steak generally has a beef broth based gravy while Swiss steak has a tomato based gravy. This fork-tender Swiss steak with rich gravy was an often-requested main dish around our house when I was growing up.

Swiss Steak instructions

1. Cut the into serving size pieces and coat with flour.Brown the meat in vegetable oil. Then put in the crockpot . In the same pan saute vegetables in oil untill tender. Stir in diced tomatoes, salt and pepper , basil Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar and rest of the flour. Mix well pour mixture over meat in crockpot. Cover and cook 6 to 8 hours. The sauce will thicken as it cook..
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Mom took pride in preparing scrumptious, hearty meals like this for our family and guests. —Linda McGinty, Parma, Ohio Swiss steak is a method of slow-cooking a relatively tough cut of beef, such as a round steak. The meat is browned, and then braised in a tomato sauce. Your family will enjoy this old fashioned Swiss Steak made the classic way with cubed steak and tomatoes. It's slowly cooked in the oven until fork tender. This recipe is a long-time family favorite from "First" magazine.