British Guy Tries American Chicken and Waffles

He’s a British guy but he’s never tried chicken and waffles! After trying Biscuits and Gravy recently, I knew there was another classic American dish I had never tried before and I’d have to give it a go - chicken and waffles! Mine is a spicy version with a little extra addition at the end, plus a special guest who pops in to try chicken and waffles with me - stay tuned for that!
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Chicken & Waffles Recipe

Ingredients

Fried chicken
Boneless, skinless chicken thighs
3 eggs
1 tbsp hot sauce
350ml (1.5 cups) buttermilk
360g (3 cups) flour
2 tbsp garlic powder

Hot sauce
100g butter
1 tsp Garlic granules
0.5 tsp chilli powder
1.5 tsp cayenne
1 tsp paprika
2 tbsp honey
Salt and pepper

Waffles
2 eggs
475ml (2 cups) buttermilk
280g (2 ¼ cups) flour
1 tbsp baking powder
3 tbsp sugar
½ tsp Kosher salt
½ tsp ground cinnamon
120ml (0.5 cups) vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract

Chop the chicken into strips then season with shimmy of salt and pepper.

Whisk together the eggs, hot sauce of your choice and the buttermilk in one bowl. In another one, mix together the flour, a good shake of salt and the garlic powder.

Now take a chicken strip and coat it in the flour mixture, then drop it into the buttermilk dredge. Finally whack it back into the flour so it’s all nicely coated. It’s best to keep one hand for the wet bowl and one for the dry here otherwise you’ll end up in a sticky mess. You can do just the one coat like this, or if you’re not happy and want more you can go back and forth for a nice coating. Place your coated chicken strip onto a wire rack. Now repeat with the rest of the chicken!

Next add all the hot sauce ingredients to a pan, you probably want to chop the butter up to help it melt more quickly. Stir them together until the sauce is nice and thick and looks delicious. This sauce is optional, but I like hot sauce, did I mention?

It’s waffle time! Separate the whites and the yolks of 2 eggs, reserve the yolks for later and whisk up the whites until you see those lovely peaks.

In another bowl, mix together the buttermilk, vanilla extract, egg yolks and oil. Then add in the baking powder, cinnamon and sugar and whisk up again. Then mix in the flour, use a spatula to get it to come together - it will be a bit thick, but now we work in the whisked up egg whites. This is your waffle batter!

Before you put it into the waffle iron, get your oil heating up to 190C for your chicken. You could probably air fry this, but I wanted to stay authentic for my first go! Now here’s where I made a mistake - make sure you drop your chicken directly into the oil rather than the basket as mine stuck! Remove from the oil when golden and crispy - it took about 7 to 8 minutes for me.

Warm your hot sauce back up again if it’s cooled down while you were doing everything else, then brush a little onto the crispy chicken.

Spray your waffle iron with oil then pour the batter from a jug in and cook until golden brown.

Finally time to serve up and enjoy with a drizzle of maple syrup, and an optional pickle if you want to give that a go!


00:00 Intro
00:43 What is chicken and waffles?
01:23 Chicken breading
04:20 Hot sauce
05:25 Waffle batter
07:39 Frying the chicken
10:37 Waffle time!
11:10 Brits Try Chicken & Waffles

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