New Deep Fryer and Garlic Steaks

At Phil's family's Christmas Party they do a white elephant gift exchange. If you've never heard of that before, it's where everyone who wants to participate brings a wrapped gift of a certain value. They are all put in a pile, and everyone picks a number. The first person will pick a gift to open. The next person has the option to either open a gift or steal a gift from someone who already has one. And this year they added a twist, you had to answer a trivia question to open a gift.

Phil ended up with this really cool deep fryer with oil! :) So tonight we made Garlic Steaks. What are Garlic Steaks? Well, they're like chicken fried steaks. You take thin pieces of beef, put it in an egg wash, then in a bread crumb mixture of italian bread crumbs, chopped onions, and minced garlic. The mixture is kind of a wet mixture. So when you put the meat in the crumbs, you kind of press the bread crumb mixture onto the beef.

Here's the steaks cooking:


They're getting ready to come out. The deep fryer is great for this! You don't have to fish out the pieces of meat with chopsticks or tongs. You just lift them out with the basket!

And here are the finished steaks! They are so very yummy.

We usually eat them with cheese tortellinis. I ate them with fries tonight cause I just love fries!