Buttermilk Chicken & Waffles with Honey Garlic Sriracha Maple Syrup

Hello everyone and welcome back to another week of Nikoli's Kitchen! This week on the show, some announcements about what's to come in 2021 including a new segment and the 5th Livestream for the Cure (the link is down below). I talk about my struggle with being "in my head" and dealing with self-doubt before we get into a recipe for rangoons two ways. In the featured recipe this week we're talking about Buttermilk Chicken & Waffles with my homemade garlic honey sriracha maple syrup- if you love sweet, savory, and spicy all in one bite, you have to tune in to this. Thank you all so much for listening and Happy New Year! I'm so excited to see where our journey takes us together this year.

Featured Recipe Timecodes

34:21 - Intro
36:14 - Step One (Chicken)
37:24 - Step Two (Making the Waffles)
41:01 - Step Three (Making the Syrup)

 

Featured Recipe for this Episode

2 lbs of chicken drumsticks or chicken breast filets
1 c buttermilk
1/4 c sriracha
Salt 
pepper
1/2 c all-purpose Flour
1/4 c cornstarch
1 c panko bread crumbs
3 eggs
Peanut Oil (if you are deep frying)

About 3-4 days before cooking day, place your chicken in a large bowl or re-sealable bag. 
Mix together buttermilk and sriracha and add salt and pepper, then pour the mixture over the chicken and toss until well-coated. 
Cover/seal the chicken and allow to marinate for three days.

Combine flour and corn starch. Add your flour mix, eggs, and panko to three separate bowls. 
Add salt and pepper to the flour mix and mix to combine (add any other dry seasonings you'd like to the flour as well).
Remove your chicken from the bag/bowl a piece at a time and shake off excess buttermilk.
Cover your chicken in flour, then dredge in the egg mixture, then coat in the panko. Set the coated chicken aside on a plate or platter for 10 minutes or so for the coating to stick and excess to drip off.
If you are frying, bring your oil to 350°. Fry the chicken for 12-15 minutes (drumsticks) or 6-8 minutes (filets) and remove; finish in the oven as necessary. If you are shallow-frying be sure to turn it every 2 minutes or so.
If you are air-frying, set temperature to 375°. Air-fry the drumsticks for 22-25 minutes, the filets for 13-15 minutes. 

1-1/2 c all-purpose flour
1/2 c almond flour
2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
2 eggs
1/2 c melted butter
1/8 to 1/4 c sriracha
2 T honey
1 t pure vanilla extract
1-2 c buttermilk (or more depending on how thin you want your batter)

Add melted butter, eggs, honey, and sriracha together in a bowl and blend together (make sure the butter isn't still hot when combining with the eggs or you'll start to cook them).
Add vanilla. 
Add flours together in a separate bowl and add baking powder and salt. Mix together.
Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
Mix in buttermilk, stirring only until combined. You may need additional buttermilk up to another 1/4 to 1/2 c depending on how thin you want the batter, also depends how much sriracha you went with. (Note: You can use normal milk here in place of buttermilk as well, but start with half and increase gradually as it will thin out your batter much faster with less). 
Cook on a waffle iron until nice and crispy, 2 to 2-1/2 minutes per side.

1 cup dark brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 cups water
1 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup sriracha
1 cup honey
10-15 cloves of garlic, chopped

Add dark brown sugar, white sugar, water, and garlic to a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat and begin to reduce. 
Reduce this until it hits about 2 cups. It'll let you know when it is done reducing- it'll stop "simmering" like liquid and it'll start foaming a lot. 
At this point remove from heat, add the maple syrup, honey, and sriracha. 
Return to heat and let it come back to a boil, stirring regularly. 
Let it come together for just a minute, then remove it from the heat.

To serve, plate a waffle and then add your chicken. Drizzle with the homemade syrup and then sprinkle with chopped scallions (if desired).

 

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