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Mom's Pan Broiled Roundsteak (Bea Hanson) Recipe

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Category:
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Lg piece of round steak approximately 1/2 inch thick
Sprinkle heavily with Adolph's meat tenderizer.
Seasoned or plain Adolph's!
1 tsp salt

1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
1/2 tsp liquid smoke

1/2 cup water

Serve with toast points.

Iron skillet
Directions:
Directions:
Put your well seasoned iron skillet over a high flame. Let it get very hot! This is crucial to this recipe. You want it nearly smoking. Sprinkle the salt into the skillet and then put the round steak in all in one piece. Sprinkle the steak with ground black pepper to taste. Use more than you think is necessary! Trust me! This is cooked with out oil of any kind which is why it is called pan-broiled!

When steak is well browned on one side (3-5 minutes) carefully turn it over and cook another 3 minutes. Sprinkle the steak with Worcestershire sauce and liquid smoke now and then turn over. Add 1/2 cup water, remove steak and continue cooking the now boiling water and scrape any bits off of the bottom of the skillet.

Cut the steak into serving portions and pour the pan juices over top of all. Put toast points on plates and top with a piece of steak and a bit of the pan juices.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
4-5
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
15 minutes
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe is deceptively simple. I tried making it for years with no success then I watched Mom do it the last time she made it here in her home in Lisbon and I realized I was over thinking it! it sounds crazy but the steak will come out cooked medium to medium rare, depending on the thickness of the meat, tender, and very flavorful! Apparently the salt combined with the heat of the skillet seals in the juices.

Back in the 1960's when Cliff, Connie, and I were still all at home in DesMoines, Iowa, this was a staple in our diets. Round steak was cheap eating back in those days and people rarely used the more expensive cuts of steak at home. Mom almost always served this with fried, home canned potatoes, or as my nephew Zachary named them, Bohemian Popcorn. As Mom always froze corn and canned her own vegetables we usually had her home frozen corn along with this too! Both Mom (Bea Hanson) and Dad (Chet) worked full-time outside of the home yet there was ALWAYS a home cooked meal on the table by 6-6:30 every evening. They worked tirelessly to provide a Leave it to Beaveresque life for my siblings and myself. Our home had it's fair share of problems as well but all in all as I look at contemporary families, we were so blessed! The dinner table seemed to be the one place in the Hanson household where we never argued or fought. Dinner was a sacred time. Such awesome memories.

 

 

 

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