Best Vegetarian Chicken Fried Steak Recipes

VEGETARIAN CHICKEN-FRIED STEAK WITH MUSHROOM GRAVY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Heat butter over medium low in a saucepan. Add mushrooms and garlic. The mushrooms will begin to release water - if they look dry, add water. You want them in around an inch of water as they cook, not completely covered. They will shrink.
• While that cooks, use a food processor to coarsely grind up rice and walnuts. You want some texture to remain, not a paste! Pieces like the size of the chopped peanuts you'd get for ice cream topping or a bit smaller are good.
• Pour enough oil into a heavy skillet to shallowly cover the bottom. Begin to heat over medium.
• Combine rice, walnuts, green onion, egg, salt, pepper, garlic powder and Italian seasoning in a large bowl.
• Form the mixture into 6 balls. Roll each ball in bread crumbs to coat, flattening as you go like a burger patty.
• Fry the patties in oil just to brown them, then transfer to a cookie sheet. When they're all browned, bake at 350 for about 30 minutes.
• Occasionally stir mushrooms while they cook. When they've cooked down, use a slotted spoon to remove mushrooms and set aside. Add water to the broth if necessary to make about 2/3 cup total liquid. In a jar with a lid, combine flour and milk. Shake to combine until no lumps remain (or stir together well, but the jar method seems to remove lumps easier).
• Bring the mushroom broth to a simmer, then slowly stir in milk/flour mixture. Add parmesan cheese. Cook and stir, being sure to scrape the bottom, until mixture thickens. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• To serve, top each rice patty with some mushrooms and pour mushroom gravy over it.

VEGETARIAN "CHICKEN" FRIED STEAK

Steps:

• Slice the mock chicken into small, round steaks.
• Pour 1/2 cup of the flour into a shallow dish.
• Pour 1/2 cup of the flour into a second shallow dish and add the cornmeal, paprika, salt, and pepper.
• Pour the soy milk into a third shallow dish.
• Dip the steaks into the soy milk and then into the plain flour.
• Dip into the soy milk again and then into the seasoned flour and cornmeal mixture.
• Add 2 tablespoons of the oil to the heated skillet and cook 3 "steaks" at a time.
• Brown for approximately 2 minutes on each side or until thoroughly cooked.
• Transfer to a serving platter.
• Repeat with the remaining oil and steaks.
• Add the remaining flour to the skillet and cook for 2 minutes.
• Whisk in the stock and the parsley and season with the salt and pepper.
• Whisk the nondairy cream into the gravy.
• Remove from the heat when bubbling.
• Serve with warm biscuits topped with the gravy.