The Easiest And Most Delicious Chicken And Waffles Recipe
Ditch the fast food and learn how to make chicken and waffles in your own kitchen.
Why You'll LOVE This Chicken And Waffles Recipe
It tastes just so good! Honestly, if you're searching for comfort food, nothing hits the spot quite like freshly cooked waffles topped with fried chicken and maple syrup. It's just too good! These are good for dinner or as a delicious brunch!
Simple to make - it's not actually difficult to throw this meal together, just do your prep first, then you're literally just left with cooking the waffles and chicken and the cooking bit is easy. Plus I'll pop some cheats below if you want food a little faster.
Chicken And Waffles Recipe
Serves – 4
Prep Time – 20 minutes
Cook Time – 20 minutes
Total Time – 40 minutes
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What You'll Need
For the fried chicken
- Large plastic bag
- Bowl
- Teaspoon
- Shallow bowl
- Tray
- Deep Fryer – we use a Tefal Oleoclean fryer – these are great, they filter the oil to clean it after each use!
- Food Thermometer
- Kitchen paper towel
For the waffles
- Teaspoon
- Measuring jug
- American measuring cups
- Cup
- Fork
- Mixing bowl
- Wooden spoon
- Waffle maker or waffle iron
Ingredients For Homemade Chicken And Waffles
Everything you'll need to make a delicious, homemade, flavor packed fried chicken feast!
For the fried chicken
- 4 chicken breast - cut into 2 or 3 smaller pieces - you can use chicken thighs fillets if you prefer
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoon Cajun seasoning
- pinch salt
- pinch black pepper
- 3 cups fine white breadcrumbs
- 3 teaspoon paprika
- 3 teaspoon Cajun seasoning
- pinch salt
- pinch black pepper
(you also need the deep fat fryer and vegetable oil for frying)
For the waffles
- 1 ¼ cup self rising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon superfine sugar
- 8oz (250ml) whole milk
- 1 large egg
How To Make Chicken And Waffles
Once your prep is sorted, the cooking is easy!
How to make fried chicken
- Marinate the chicken - add the chicken pieces to a plastic bag, pour in the buttermilk, Cajun seasoning and a good pinch of salt and black pepper. Seal the bag and leave in the fridge to marinate for at least 2-3 hours.
- Mix up the coating - for the breaded coating – add the fine breadcrumbs, paprika, Cajun seasoning, a pinch of salt and black pepper to a bowl, mix everything together.
- Coat the chicken - take each piece of chicken, toss it in the breadcrumb coating, then lay onto a tray until ready to fry.
- Fry the chicken breast pieces - (see note below) we fried our chicken in a deep fat fryer, heated to 400F / 200C – the chicken pieces took around 10 minutes to cook through properly. Please note larger or thicker chicken pieces may take longer. Always check the chicken is cooked through properly (use an instant read food thermometer to do this) and to the correct temperature before serving and eating.
- Remove the cooked chicken from the fryer and drain on kitchen paper before serving.
How to make waffles
- Mix the dry ingredients – put the flour, baking powder and caster sugar into a mixing bowl and stir gently to combine.
- Mix into a waffle batter – make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and crack in the egg – add a little of the milk and using a wooden spoon – stirring in small circles – gradually mix together the batter – adding more milk whenever it becomes stiff. Eventually you’ll have a smooth rich batter – pour this into a jug it just makes it so much easier for pouring into the waffle maker.
- Heat up the waffle maker – I gently brush the waffle plates with a little melted butter and then pour in the batter – I cook these for around 6-7 minutes and don’t even peep at them before 4 minutes is up.
- Flip the waffles out – once cooked flip them from the waffle maker using a plastic spatular so you don’t scratch the waffle plates.
How to serve fried chicken and waffles
- Slide the waffles onto the plate, load the fried chicken on top, and drizzle over your favorite toppings. I like to serve these with rivers of maple syurp poured over the top.
Chicken And Waffles - Recipe Tips Straight From The Kitchen
Cooking tips and ideas to make your waffles even better!
Ingredients swaps and add ins
You can swap the seasoning on the chicken breasts for any you like to eat - we love Cajun with maple syrup, but this chicken and waffle feast works great with Italian style chicken, southern fried chicken seasoning, buffalo chicken breasts, or just plain garlic powder with herb. Choose your favourite!
Side dishes that go great with waffles and chicken
Wondering what to serve alongside chicken and waffles? Well, here's our absolute favourites!
- Coleslaw - a good homemade tangy coleslaw goes great with fried chicken and waffles - try our ranch slaw here, or if you like things spicy, grab our red cabbage slaw with bang bang dressing.
- Dill pickles - a little pot of cornichons or dill pickles goes great with the sweetness of the maple syrup soaked chicken.
- Tomato and cucumber salad - this just lightens things up a little and balances out the rich food.
- Garlic bread - there's always room for a cheesy garlic bread.
- Buttery corn cobs - try out our tasty air fryer corn on the cob recipe here.
- Potato salad - our delicious Swedish potato salad is super tasty with waffles and chicken.
How to make it chicken and waffles quicker - just cheat!
So, if you fancy chicken and waffles but without quite so much effort in the kitchen, then cheat!
Grab yourself some packs of chicken shop chicken from the freezer section - the Bird's Eye Chicken shop range is a good pick for this. And pick up some ready to toast waffles and whatever sides you fancy. There's Friday night dinner sorted. And the kids will LOVE it!
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Easy Chicken And Waffles
A super easy chicken and waffles recipe for when you just want comfort food to slide onto your plate.
Ingredients
For the fried chicken
- 4 chicken breast - cut into 2 or 3 smaller pieces
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 teaspoon Cajun seasoning
- pinch salt
- pinch black pepper
- 3 cups fine white breadcrumbs
- 3 teaspoon paprika
- 3 teaspoon Cajun seasoning
- pinch salt
- pinch black pepper
For the waffles
- 1 ¼ cup self rising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon superfine sugar
- 8oz (250ml) whole milk
- 1 large egg
Instructions
For the fried chicken
- Marinate the chicken - add the chicken pieces to a plastic bag, pour in the buttermilk, Cajun seasoning and a good pinch of salt and black pepper. Seal the bag and leave in the fridge to marinate for at least 2-3 hours.
- Mix up the coating - for the breaded coating – add the fine breadcrumbs, paprika, Cajun seasoning, a pinch of salt and black pepper to a bowl, mix everything together.
- Coat the chicken - take each piece of chicken, toss it in the breadcrumb coating, then lay onto a tray until ready to fry.
- Fry the chicken - (see note below) we fried our chicken in a deep fat fryer, heated to 400F / 200C – the chicken pieces took around 10 minutes to cook through properly. Please note larger or thicker chicken pieces may take longer. Always check the chicken is cooked through properly (use an instant read food thermometer to do this) and to the correct temperature before serving and eating.
- Remove the cooked chicken from the fryer and drain on kitchen paper before serving.
For the waffles
- Mix the dry ingredients – put the flour, baking powder and caster sugar into a mixing bowl and stir gently to combine.
- Mix into a waffle batter – make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and crack in the egg – add a little of the milk and using a wooden spoon – stirring in small circles – gradually mix together the batter – adding more milk whenever it becomes stiff. Eventually you’ll have a smooth rich batter – pour this into a jug it just makes it so much easier for pouring into the waffle maker.
- Heat up the waffle maker – I gently brush the waffle plates with a little melted butter and then pour in the batter – I cook these for around 6-7 minutes and don’t even peep at them before 4 minutes is up.
- Flip the waffles out – once cooked flip them from the waffle maker using a plastic spatular so you don’t scratch the waffle plates.
To serve
- Slide the waffles onto the plate, load the fried chicken on top, and drizzle over your favorite toppings. I like to serve these with rivers of maple syurp poured over the top.
Notes
Fried Chicken Note - you may need to fry the chicken pieces in batches, depending on the size of your deep fryer.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 743Total Fat: 12gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 156mgSodium: 2848mgCarbohydrates: 97gFiber: 6gSugar: 12gProtein: 58g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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