Belgian waffle chicken is a popular American dish, which refers to the culinary direction of soul food, that is, “food for the soul. “It harmoniously and very tasty combines at first incompatible ingredients look: sweet Belgian waffles, spicy fried chicken, honey and spicy sauce. In the minutes when you want something unusual and tasty, for the soul, treat yourself to it a dish. Moreover, the ingredients are very simple and everything is pretty easy to cook. Chicken marinated in yogurt with spices, after frying it turns out wonderful, crispy on the outside and juicy inside. Put it on fresh waffles, pour honey and hot sauce и наслаждайтесь. 
AT ремя: 3hour. one 0 min. Difficulty: medium Servings: 8 Used in recipes volumetric containers: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Fried chicken
- 1 tbsp. yogurt
- 4 to 5 drops of hot sauce
- 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 2 – 3 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 600 gr strips of chicken
- 1 tbsp. flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp sweet paprika
- 0.5 tsp cayenne pepper
- Vegetable oil, for frying
Waffles
- 2 tbsp. flour
- 2 tbsp. l Sahara
- 1 tbsp. l baking powder
- 1 tsp fine salt
- 1.5 tbsp. milk
- 4 tbsp. l (60 gr.) Butter, melted + additionally for greasing the waffle iron
- 4 tbsp. l vegetable fat, melted
- 2 large eggs
- Soft butter, honey and spicy sauce
- Special Equipment: Waffle Maker
Recipes with similar ingredients: yogurt, spicy sauce, garlic, thyme, chicken, flour, onion powder, paprika, cayenne pepper ground, sugar, milk, butter, eggs
Recipe preparation:
- Fried chicken: in a large bowl or in a plastic in a packet with ziplock mix yogurt, hot sauce, garlic, thyme, 0.5 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp pepper. Add chicken so that everything the pieces were completely immersed in the mixture. Cover the bowl plastic wrap or close the bag on ziplock and put in refrigerator for 2-4 hours.
- In another large ziplock plastic bag, mix flour, baking powder, onion powder, paprika, cayenne pepper, 1 hour l salt and 0.5 tsp pepper.
- Waffles: Preheat the waffle iron to a moderate temperature. Preheat the oven to 90 ° C (to keep the finished waffles warm). ВIn a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In another whisk milk, butter, fat and eggs in a bowl. Overfill milk mixture in flour and mix gently until smooth consistency (it’s okay to have a little test lumps).
- Lightly grease the top and bottom of the waffle iron with butter oil. Fill the waffle iron with dough for about three quarters (on some waffle irons have marks). Close the lid and fry until waffles will not become rosy and crispy, 6-7 minutes. Ready Waffles put in a plate, cover with foil and keep in the oven until fry the rest.
- Fry Chicken: Pour into a deep wide pan 6-8 cm. oil and heat over medium heat to a temperature of 175 ° C on thermometer for deep fat. When the oil is warm, remove half marinade chicken strips by brushing off excess back into a bowl. Put the chicken in a bag of flour and seasonings and close the bag. Shake to thoroughly coat all chicken pieces with breading. Remove the chicken by brushing off the excess flour and lay on grill.
- Fry the chicken in batches. Gently lay the pieces chicken in hot butter. The oil temperature will drop to 150 ° C – 160 ° C; adjust the burner to maintain this temperature (importantly, so that the oil does not overheat, otherwise the chicken will burn on the outside before, than fry inside). Fry the chicken without stirring for about 1 minute, so that a crust appears; then start checking the pieces of chicken so that they brown evenly and carefully turn them over as necessary, so that the pieces are evenly fried and fried inside, and the temperature on the infrared thermometer dropped up to 75 ° C, 8 – 10 minutes. Put the chicken on a clean wire rack so that drain the fat and salt. Roll in flour and fry the remaining the chicken.
- Spread each wafer with butter, and put 1 on top – 2 pieces of chicken. Pour honey heavily, drizzle a little sharp sauce and serve.
