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Swiss steak is meat, usually beef, prepared by means of rolling or pounding, and then braising in a cooking pot of stewed tomatoes, mushroom sauce, or some other sauce, either on a stove (cooker) or in an oven. In England, it is also called smothered steak. The dish does not stem from Switzerland, as the name suggests, but from the technique of tenderizing by pounding or rolling called "swissing".
Usage examples of "swiss steak".
Only a diner familiar with the hotel for the last forty years would consider the selection exciting: French onion soup instead of bean, grilled salmon steak instead of fish and chips, chicken cordon bleu instead of chicken and dumplings, and roast prime rib instead of swiss steak.
The remains of his lunch in a tin tray rested on the deck under the chair: a broken corn muffin, fragments of Swiss steak, and an empty coffee mug.
Then there were the main dishes: fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, chicken pot pie, baked chicken, salmon croquettes, catfish, meat loaf, oxtail stew, smothered pork chops, neck bones and rice, braised turkey legs, Swiss steak, and fried chicken livers and gizzards.
He took another bite of Swiss steak and chewed on it as though nothing but food was on his mind, while Doris called the airport.
Then home, where he would treat himself to an expensive TV dinner instead of the usual fried chicken or Swiss steak.
Rube had Swiss steak and mixed vegetables, served up by a nice-looking girl.
They'd served a variety of leftovers-meat loaf, macaroni and cheese, Swiss steak, and the taco casserole they'd served the night before.