Chicken & Waffles 🐓 🧇

A combination of (modified) Spicy Southern Kitchen’s recipe and Rose Delemeester’s Belgian waffle recipe

CHICKEN
2 lbs chicken breast, filleted 🐓
1 cup buttermilk 🥛
2 tsp GARLIC Tabasco (not regular) 🌶

1 egg, lightly beaten 🥚
¾ cup panko
½ cup flour
1 tsp seasoned salt
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp onion powder
½ tsp garlic powder
¼ tsp white pepper
peanut or vegetable oil (for frying)

DIRECTIONS

• Marinate chicken breasts in buttermilk and garlic Tabasco for 2 hours (in refrigerator)

• Remove chicken from marinade, whisk egg 🥚 into marinade, then add chicken back in

• Combine panko, flour, and spices

• Heat 1” oil in nonstick pan (to 375º)

• Dredge chicken in seasoned panko and fry till golden

WAFFLES
2 cups flour
¾ cup sugar
3½ tsp baking powder
2 eggs, separated
1½ cup milk
1 cup butter, melted 🧈
1 tsp vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS

• In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder

• In separate bowl, lightly beat egg yolks, then add milk, butter, and vanilla

• Stir wet ingredients into dry until just combined

• In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form

• Fold beaten egg whites into batter

• Cook in waffle iron until golden brown

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TOPPINGS: TABASCO SYRUP
⅓ cup maple syrup 🍁
1 tbsp butter, melted 🧈
1½ tsp Tabasco 🌶

Alternatively, can simply top with Frank’s, honey, syrup, or any combination thereof