Sneha's Recipe: Vienna

This is a easy keto/low carb Schnitzel recipe for crispy fried and seasoned beef steak.

This is a perfect recipe for one who has gluten intolerance. Using almond meal in the place of breadcrumbs, I was able to create a delicious (and healthy!) substitute for breaded schnitzel.

Serves One
Ingredients
300 Grams One Big Undercut Beef Steak - flatten
½ Teaspoon Pink Himalayan Salt
½ Teaspoon White or Black pepper powder
½ Teaspoon Mustard sauce
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce - Sugar Free
1 Egg
½ Cup Almond Flour - to coat
Olive Oil For Frying

Method
Lay down a strip of plastic wrap or cloth on your kitchen countertop. Place beef piece on the plastic wrap or cloth, cover with another strip of plastic or cloth so the meat is sandwiched between two layers. Use a mallet to flatten the steak until it's ¼ inch thick. Season with salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce. Refrigerate this for at least an hour or overnight.

When ready to fry, dip in beaten egg, then with almond flour. Pat the almond flour coating onto all visible sides of the steak, making sure there’s an even layer of coating over all the visible surfaces. Refrigerate the coated schnitzel for at least 30 minutes.
Pour oil into a skillet until it’s deep enough for shallow frying. Heat the oil slowly over medium. While oil is heating,
When the oil is hot (but not smoking or splattering), fry the coated steak until they are golden brown on both sides, for about 4 minutes per side.

After frying, set the schnitzel on a paper towel and pat them dry to soak off excess oil. Serve hot garnished with sliced cucumber and feta cheese with a sprinkle of black pepper powder.

Labels: Eat the World, Schnitzel, Beef, Austria, Vienna, Keto, Low Carb, Almond Flour, Main course., International Cuisine, Serves One

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Viennoiseries (French etymological sense: 'things of Vienna') are baked goods made from a yeast-leavened dough in a manner similar to bread, or from puff pastry, but with added ingredients (particularly eggs, butter, milk, cream and sugar) giving them a richer, sweeter character, approaching that of pastry. The dough is often laminated. Viennoiseries are typically eaten at breakfast or as snacks.

Brioche is considered a Viennoiserie, in that it is made in the same basic way as bread, but has the richer aspect of a pastry because of the extra addition of eggs, butter, liquid (milk, water, cream, and, sometimes, brandy) and occasionally a bit of sugar.

Ingredients

4 Teaspoons Sugar
2.1/4 Teaspoons Instant yeast
50 ml Warm Milk
50 ml Warm Water
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
2.1/2 Cups All purpose flour
1 Tablespoon Heaped Butter - unsalted
2 Eggs

Method

Beat the eggs lightly and reserved a tablespoon for brushing the bread.

Take a bowl add sugar, yeast, salt, egg, mix it till sugar melts, add all-purpose flour, milk and water to form a soft dough, knead it well for 10 minutes. Then take it on the kitchen counter and keep adding butter a little by little as you are stretching the dough, knead it for 10 minutes, cover the dough with wet cloth and let rest it for 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes punch the dough and again let it rest till it doubles in volume. Then divide the dough into big and small portions, using the palm of your hand roll it on one edge of the portion and make a hole in the center of the larger portion, tuck in the smaller part in through the center and pull out to form the brioche shape, place these in the muffin pan.

Let them rest again covered with a wet cloth, till it doubles in volume. Add a tablespoon of milk to the egg and mix well then brush the brioche very lightly and bake them at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.

These were so soft and tasty, we had them with tea. I sent few of them to my friend and they could not believe that these were made at home.