Fried Chicken & Waffles

Fried Chicken & Waffles.

I think Jon and I must have seen this on FoodTV, maybe Feasting on Asphalt or Diners, Drive-ins & Dives, or maybe a History Channel show about food?

Maybe a show about Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles? I have no idea.

But Jon saw it and had to have it.

He asked me to make it at least once a week for several months or more.

I finally made it for him!

And... much to my delight... he said it was even better than he thought it would be!



I had planned to just use a recipe from the little recipe book that came with my waffle maker. But sadly, it is no longer in the box.

So first thing, I had to find a waffle recipe.

I found this recipe at allrecipes.com. It had 4.5 stars and 669 reviews.

That should work!

Waffles
2 eggs
2 C flour
1 3/4 C milk
1/2 C vegetable oil
1 TBLS white sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat waffle iron. Beat eggs in large bowl with hand beater until fluffy. Beat in flour, milk, vegetable oil, sugar, baking powder, salt and vanilla, just until smooth.
Spray preheated waffle iron with non-stick cooking spray. Pour mix onto hot waffle iron. Cook until golden brown. Serve hot.


Easy enough! I decided that rather than trying to get waffles and fried chicken all cooked at the same time, I'd make the waffles ahead of time and heat them up when the chicken was ready.

Whisk up the waffle batter.


While the waffle iron is preheating.


This is only the second time I've used my waffle iron.

It took a couple of waffles to get the right amount of batter into the iron.





Ok... waffles are done... I'll pop them into the oven when the chicken is almost ready.


Now it's my understanding that Fried Chicken & Waffles are served with pancake syrup. That didn't sound very good to me. So I have pancake syrup for Jon... but I also whipped up a quick chicken gravy.





So... waffles are done... gravy is done... chicken has been soaking in buttermilk & hot sauce.

Just need to Fry the Chicken.

For Jon... drizzled with syrup...



For Tawny & I... covered with chicken gravy...



Bobby had his separate... but then did enjoy dipping his chicken in the pancake syrup.

Jon said he really liked the sweet syrup with the slightly salty fried chicken.

Nice!!

Toad in the Hole... CHECK
Fried Chicken & Waffles... CHECK

I don't think there's anything else on his list... but if he reads this, I'm sure he'll let me know!

not Belgian Waffles ~ Take One

Until the other night, the only waffles I ever made came out of a box in my freezer and I popped them into the toaster oven.

That has changed!

I just got a waffle iron! YAY!!



I wanted to make Shane's Belgian Waffles (check them out over at Culinary Alchemy)

While I was at work, I skimmed the ingredients and noted that I should have everything at home. YAY again!

So as soon as I got home I opened it up, washed it off and read the direction on how to operate the iron. (remember I've never actually made waffles before)

Ok... that looked easy enough... now on to the waffles!

Uh oh!! The batter needed to rest 1.5 hours or overnight!!!

Definitely NOT a work night dinner at my house. This would have to wait until the weekend.

What to do for dinner????

I had just had 15 pounds of beef tenderloin cut into gorgeous thick steaks... but I just wasn't feeling the beef...

Tawny brought home fundraiser Italian subs... meh...

I could make quesadillas... nah...

Ya know... the recipe that came with the iron, while claiming to be Plain Belgian Waffles, had no yeast... just baking powder.

I did need to get a feel for the iron. I certainly didn't want to start making waffles for the first time ever, with batter that had been in the works for 12 hours or more, only to ruin them due to lack of experience. And I didn't have any cool toppings anyway.

I made Plain Belgian (American) Waffles from the recipe that came with my VillaWare Belgian Waffler for dinner!

Plain Belgian Waffles
4 eggs, separate, room temperature
1 TBLS sugar
1/4 C butter, melted and cooled
1 C milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 C flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Beat egg yolks and sugar in a bowl until light.
Add cooled, melted butter, milk and vanilla.
Add flour, baking powder and salt.
Beat well.
Beat egg whites until stiff and gently fold into batter.

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Beat egg yolks and sugar in a bowl until light.


Mine wouldn't get light... oh well...


Add cooled, melted butter, milk and vanilla.


Add flour, baking powder and salt. Beat well.


Beat egg whites until stiff and gently fold into batter.






Preheat the waffle iron & give it a little spritz with some cooking spray.


Pour in the batter. Ok... I need practice here.

Not quite full enough...






A little too full...




Not full enough again...


They weren't all perfect... but they tasted great!!