Every time I turn around, I hear someone talking about Chicken and Waffles.
People rave about this dish and I have never had it. I looked up a few recipes and knew I could do it so my last Sunday Supper meal was just that.
My central problem was my waffle iron. It is not a traditional iron with the square pockets.
My waffle iron is a Mickey Mouse design with the heads of the six main characters. That would be Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Pluto. However, why let a little issue like that bother you when there is is chicken waiting to be fried.
Now, I did not use a recipe per sae. That’s right, I made it all up as I went along. This could bother some people and some times it bothers me because I like to time everything.
Instead, I took my chicken breasts and pounded them a little thinner so they would cook faster. After that, I prepared a dredging pan of flour, salt and pepper. I made a skillet get hot on the stove, put the oven at 250 and took out a glass dish to put my cooked chicken pieces in and keep warm in the oven.
Meanwhile, my daughter made the waffle batter while the iron heated up. But here is where our first snafu came up. I forgot to spray the iron with Pam before we started. The first batch stuck to the plates and would not come off. It would take practically burning the dough off of the plates in order to clean them.
However, once that debacle was over we were in waffle-making and chicken frying heaven. I put a little vegetable oil in the hot skillet before starting the chicken. The waffle iron was sprayed with Pam and all came out fairly well. What was made went into the low oven to stay warm without drying out and waited for all to be done.
Last thing that needed to happen – besides the steaming of broccoli – was to make the chicken gravy. I did a simple rue in the pan we used for cooking the chicken. Then I added chicken broth, let that simmer down for a bit to reduce before adding the milk. The husband oversaw the final part of cooking the sauce because that is what he likes to do best.
Now some people make the layers with waffle on the bottom, chicken next and then the gravy. Others add syrup between the waffle and the chicken. Some pictures showed just the chicken on the waffle.
At our table, we had people eating the components separately with syrup on the waffles. I went for the syrup between the chick and the waffle while my husband choose to have only the gravy covering his stack.
I guess it does not matter how you eat it because the leftovers were minimal. The kids kept going back for chicken and waffle pieces. The broccoli was eaten by some and the last of that became omelets the next morning.
This is one meal I was told to “add to the rotation.”
Are you trying any new recipes this spring?
Notes from Rumbly Cottage 
This is a completely new one to me. Never would have guessed the broccoli addition, but yeah! But very doable. I like how people can vary “construction” for their tastes.
Got the small square waffle iron!
Thanks
I added the broccoli because I like to have a fruit or veggie with each meal. That is my requirement and I am sure there would have been complaints if I had not done it like that.
Secondly, I am jealous you have the right waffle iron.
I know my husband would like this! Thank you.
It was very tasty.
Funny to read this now, because on Friday night, my husband and I tried a new restaurant. It had chicken and waffles on its menu. My husband was tempted to try it but then chickened out. Maybe we’ll have to give the dish a rethink.
I really think it depends on how it is served. I did it with syrup and gravy. But I have seen pictures of a piece of plain fried chicken on top of a plain waffle. Now that does not flip my trigger.