To be completely honest, I wasn’t expecting this meal to be as delicious as it was. I was pretty sure I would forget something and ruin it by adding my own spin, which is something I can’t not do when I cook.
It’s a little bit time-consuming, but trust me, it’s worth it. Definitely a weekend dinner than a weeknight dinner. I don’t remember where I got the chicken recipe from, but the maple gravy is Rachael Ray’s baby, I changed it a wee bit to suit my tastes.
Also, I made chicken strips, because I’m not sure about cooking times for bone-in chicken. It doesn’t really make a difference unless you’re a particular fan of bones in your meat.
I don’t have a special recipe for waffles, we just made them from an Aunt Jemima mix WHICH, let me tell you, is so delicious it should be gourmet. Anyway.
This recipe makes about 2-3 servings. It made 2 for me, because I am a pig.
Fried Chicken Strips
- 2 chicken breasts, cut into 4-5 strips each
- 1 1/2 cups of flour
- 1 cup of All Bran Flakes, crushed
- seasoning – I used garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, paprika, but you can add whatever you like (parsley, dill, parmesan, etc.)
- 1 whole egg
Combine 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of crushed All Bran Flakes and seasoning of your choice. Make sure the bran flakes are coated in flour. Place the mixture on a plate.
On another plate, spread half a cup of plain flour. Beat the egg in a bowl.
Create an assembly line so it goes like this:
Step 1: Plain flour
Step 2: Egg
Step 3: Bran flakes/flour/seasoning mixture.
Coat each chicken strip in flour, dip it in the egg and then coat it with the Bran Flake mixture. Place these on a greased baking tray. Bake them for aout 15 minutes or until golden brown on each side.
Maple Gravy
- 1/2 of a medium onion, sliced
- 2 green onions
- mushrooms (optional)
- 1 teaspoon of rosemary
- 1 teaspoon of parsley
- 1 tablespoon of flour
- 1 1/2 cups of chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon of maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- 3 cloves of garlic, ideally minced or crushed
I kept switching between medium-high heat, I had the high heat on when I put the stock in, just so it would simmer quickly, but was on the medium for the rest of it.
The original Rachael Ray recipe called for butter, not olive oil and just rosemary and no onions or anything. But I like flavour in my gravy so I just adapted it to my tastes. And since the waffles were fatty anyway I decided to use olive oil.
Fry your garlic and onion in the olive oil till it’s soft. Then pour your chicken stock in along with the rosemary. Turn the heat to high, and when it starts to simmer, Whisk in the flour. Whisk, not stir, because I stirred and had to do so for 20 minutes to get the lumps out.
Add your parsley and mushrooms at this point and let the gravy thicken. When it’s thick enough to your liking, add the maple syrup and take it off the heat. Your gravy should be lovely and glossy.
You can either run this through a sieve (pick out the mushroom and plop them back in if you used them) and use just the liquid or eat it as is. We ate it as is because we didn’t have a sieve.
The maple syrup gives the gravy a delicious smokey-sweet flavour that contrasts nicely to the spicy-ness of the rosemary.
To assemble, put your waffles on a plate, place the chicken strips on top and drizzle with your gravy. Super, super delicious.
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