Cuban Breaded Steak Bistec Empanizado Recipes

Steps:

• Mix olive oil, sour orange juice, vinegar, and chopped onion to make marinade.
• Add un-pounded steak, cover, and marinate for 20 minutes.
• Remove steaks from marinade and place them, one at a time, between two pieces of waxed paper.
• Using a meat mallot, pound steaks to ¼-inch thickness; return steaks to marinade; refrigerate/marinate for 1-4 hours; remove beef and save marinade.
• In a bowl, combine cracker meal, garlic powder, and salt.
• Dip wet beef in egg whites, then dip in cracker mixture, coating well on both sides.
• Saute in heated olive oil to desired doneness; remove from pan and place on plate.
• Use some of the reserved marinade (with the onions) to deglaze the pan: cook at high heat, stirring constantly until the onions are cooked and the sauce reduces somewhat.
• Pour sauce over the steaks and sprinkle with chopped cilantro and freshly ground pepper.

Steps:

• Using a meat mallet, place the steaks between two pieces of wax paper and pound out to a thickness of 1/4 inch.
• Heat a small amount of oil in a frying pan at low heat. Sauté onions briefly! They should still be slighty crisp. Remove onions.
• Sprinkle each steak with Adobo seasoning and black pepper and rub into steaks. Sauté the garlic for one minute in a small amount of olive oil, . Add steaks and sauté to desired doneness in olive oil(or you could grill your steaks). Remove steaks. Deglaze the pan by adding the lime juice and continuing to heat, stirring constantly. Cook long enough to reduce (thicken) somewhat.
• Cover each steak with the fried onions. Pour sauce over steaks and sprinkle with chopped cilantro.

Steps:

• Thoroughly combine all the marinade ingredients in a large shallow dish. Gently pound out the steaks with a flat-sided meat mallet to a thickness of 1/4 inch. Add to the dish and marinate at room temperature for 30 minutes, turning occasionally.
• Remove the steaks from the marinade and pat dry. Place the eggs in a shallow bowl and mix the bread crumbs with the parsley on a plate. Dredge the steaks first in the egg wash and then in the bread crumbs, coating them well. Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a heavy saute pan or skillet and saute 2 steaks at a time over medium-hight heat for about 2 minutes per side for medium-rare, or 3 to 4 minutes per side for medium, and until the bread crumb coating is golden brown. Repeat for the remaining steaks.
• To serve, place the steaks on serving plates and garnish with a small mound of onion topped with the parsley.

Steps:

• Sprinkle steaks with chopped onion, minced garlic, "sour" orange juice or alternative mix, and salt.
• Rub into meat and cover.
• Place in the refrigerator & allow to marinate overnight.
• In bowl, beat the eggs - place flour on a plate, & breadcrumbs on another plate.
• Season with the seasonings and dip the steaks into eggs, then roll into flour cover lightly, then back into egg mixture and then into breadcrumbs and cover both on sides.
• Heat oil in skillet on medium heat and fry steak on both sides, until golden brown - don't overcook.