Flour-in-oil trick for frying steaks

Name: Flour-in-oil trick for frying steaks
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 2 Steaks (or eggs, fish, or other foods); as needed Vegetable oil; 1 tbsp Semi-coarse wheat flour

Add a tablespoon of semi-coarse wheat flour to hot oil before frying steaks, breaded cutlets, or fish to reduce splattering. Serves 2.

Slovak cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Servings: 2 servings
Difficulty: Easy
Cuisine: Slovak

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Adding flour to oil before frying steaks is a simple kitchen trick intended to reduce oil splattering all over the stove. Just add a tablespoon of semi-coarse wheat flour to hot oil, let it turn golden, then add the meat, fish, or other food you want to fry. Use this method for Sunday breaded cutlets or everyday frying when you want less cleanup afterward.

Ingredients

Steaks (or eggs, fish, or other foods) 2
Vegetable oil as needed
Semi-coarse wheat flour 1 tbsp

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Instructions

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Pour oil into a skillet and heat it as you would for regular frying. Add the flour to the oil and let it turn golden in the heat. Only then add the prepared steak and fry.
Stir the flour into the hot oil.
Place the steak in the oil with the flour and fry.
The flour keeps the oil from splattering and the area around the stove stays clean.
Tip: Use this method to fry not only meat but other foods as well.

Tip: Pat the meat dry with a paper towel before placing it in the oil, since water on its surface is the main cause of splattering. If the flour darkens quickly, the oil is too hot, and the burned flour would give the meat a bitter taste.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 433 kcal
Protein: 41 g
Carbohydrates: 3.8 g
of which sugars: 0.0 g
Fat: 27 g
of which saturates: 10 g
Fiber: 0.1 g
Salt: 0.3 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Trik s múkou v oleji pri vyprážaní steakov