Southern Fried Chicken and Waffles Recipe
Homemade Chicken and Waffles is a true soul food brunch dish that everyone loves. My recipe includes juicy Southern fried chicken and fluffy waffles with an amazing sweet and spicy sauce made with maple syrup or honey.
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 506kcal
Ingredients
- 8 boneless skinless chicken thighs
- Vegetable Oil for deep frying
Buttermilk Brine
- 2 cups 480 mL buttermilk OR soured whole milk* (see notes)
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- ½ tablespoon garlic powder
- ½ tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon hot sauce or chili powder
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
Seasoned Flour Crust
- 3 cups 384 g all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup 43 g cornstarch
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
Spicy Honey Butter Sauce
- ¼ cup 85 g honey (you can sub maple syrup)
- ½ teaspoon chili powder or more if you like a lot of spice
- 4 tablespoon 57 g unsalted butter
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- Best Belgian Waffles Recipe click the link for the full waffle recipe
Instructions
- Whisk the buttermilk or soured milk, kosher salt, garlic powder, onion powder, hot sauce, and smoked paprika together in a large mixing bowl.
- Add the boneless, skinless chicken thigh to the bowl, making sure every thigh is covered in the brine. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the chicken marinate in the buttermilk brine from 1 hour to overnight in the fridge.
- In a dutch oven pot, heat up about half the pot's worth of vegetable oil. Allow the oil to reach 350 degrees F (180 degrees C/ 160 degrees C if using a fan-forced oven).
- While the oil is heating up, in a mixing bowl whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and seasonings. Take each chicken thigh from the brine and dredge into the seasoned flour. Thoroughly coat the chicken all over, then let rest on a plate for five minutes before frying.
- Fry the chicken in the hot oil (no more than about 4 thighs per batch) until golden brown, crispy, and cooked through completely, about 8-9 minutes.
- Carefully take the chicken out of the oil and place them on a baking sheet fitted with a wire rack and let cool slightly before serving. Repeat until all the chicken thighs are fried.
- Make the Belgian Waffles and serve the chicken on top of the waffles, then drizzle generously with spicy honey butter sauce or maple syrup.
Spicy Honey Butter Sauce- In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium heat with honey, chili powder, and kosher salt. Whisk well until the mixture is incorporated and homogenized.
- Lower the temperature to 'warm/low' heat and keep for serving.
Notes
Buttermilk substitute
Whenever I can't find or don't have buttermilk, souring the milk I have with lemon juice (about ½ a lemon per cup of milk) and letting it sit for 3-5 minutes always does the trick.Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 506kcal | Carbohydrates: 46g | Protein: 35g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 168mg | Sodium: 2138mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g