Chicken and Waffles Recipe – Better than Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles recipe. Imagine perfectly seasoned and crispy fried chicken on top of a fluffy, sweet and tender waffle! If you love Fried Chicken recipes like my Buttermilk Fried Chicken or Big Mama’s Fried Chicken or even this Chicken Fried Steak, you will adore the wonderful crunchy and flavored texture of this recipe combined with the most delicious Buttermilk Waffles Recipe ever! Also try my Spicy Chicken and Waffle Sliders!
If you’re reading this recipe and wondering ‘what are chicken and waffles?’ then I have an amazing surprise for you!!! Imagine perfectly seasoned and crispy fried chicken on top of a fluffy, sweet, and tender waffle! Drizzled with sugary syrup and warm butter. If your mouth isn’t watering now, it will be after you learn how to make your own Chicken and Waffles with me!
If you love Fried Chicken recipes like my Buttermilk Fried Chicken or Big Mama’s Fried Chicken or even this Chicken Fried Steak, you will adore the wonderful crunchy and flavored texture of this recipe combined with the most delicious Buttermilk Waffles Recipe ever! Can’t get enough chicken still? Try my Spicy Chicken and Waffle Sliders!
Where Did Chicken and Waffles Originate?
I first heard about Chicken and Waffles years ago. There is a little spot most of you may know of called Roscoe’s Chicken ‘N Waffles. Pretty iconic place too for a good reason! They were one of the first main spots to combine a crisp waffle with fried crispy chicken on top. Breakfast and dinner in one setting?? You’d be crazy to turn something that good down!
Still, as famous as Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles may be, they weren’t the ones to start up this train of sweet and savory flavor.
The comforting breakfast-dinner combo trend actually started in Harlem at a supper club in the 1930s. Now, it’s a staple of traditional southern cuisine across the states. Just about every Southern restaurant or diner prides themselves in serving up deep fried deliciousness over syrup and batter!
But, this wasn’t the case years ago. We can thank the glorious chefs in Harlem for passing on this classic for generations to come.
And trust and believe me when I say I do thank them!! First of all, I am the biggest fan of fried chicken. EVER. I fry chicken a lot in my home because I grew up on it (see my Big Mama’s Fried Chicken recipe). When I’m not frying chicken, I like to opt-in for oven-frying chicken tenders, dredging and sautéing, or simply just baking it. Either way you look at it, I have a chicken problem!
When I first discovered that fried chicken could be served with buttermilk waffles, I couldn’t imagine a better scenario where two amazing things could come together to make something even more spectacular! Know that it was life-changing. So life-changing in fact that I decided to put my own little spin on the popular recipe. Here’s where my Chicken and Waffles Recipe comes from!
How to Make Chicken and Waffles
Crispy Waffle Batter Recipe
My buttermilk waffles recipe (I also make these blueberry waffles) is true for two things: it’s one of the best breakfast meals around and it’s one of the best waffle batter recipes to use with this chicken and waffles recipe. These buttermilk waffles are beautifully golden and super soft. And best of all, they are crispy which makes for a mouthwatering masterpiece of sensational flavor.
What makes these waffles so wonderful are the batter ingredients and tricks like:
- Buttermilk (creates the best texture and tangy flavor)
- Cinnamon (adds such wonderful warmth)
- Separating the eggs! (adding yolks then adding in stiff whites is a game changer!)
Buttermilk Fried Chicken Recipe
Did I mention how big of a fan I am for chicken? Look across my site and you’ll see with my Southern Fried Chicken Biscuits and Sweet Tea Fried Chicken how much I enjoy cooking with chicken! Even so, there’s nothing like buttermilk fried chicken. Which adds the perfect essential topping upon my crispy waffle batter.
You can make this buttermilk fried chicken at home quick and easy with a few key ingredients:
- Buttermilk (once again for that tender, flaky taste)
- Worcestershire Sauce (excellent balance of tangy, sweet, and savory)
- Hot Sauce (to add in a little, spicy kick!
Lastly, just add some sticky maple syrup on top and you are all set! The combination of chicken and waffles just can’t be beat. Plus, it is so versatile! It’s a meal that can be served for breakfast, lunch, or supper!
Where Can I Get Chicken and Waffles?
Come with me to visualize a perfect dish. Just imagine soft yet crisp buttermilk waffles topped with well-seasoned, extra-crispy, golden-brown fried chicken wings. Then top that heavenly dish with fresh butter and pure maple syrup. The salty, sweet, and flavorful all blend together seamlessly. Magic happens. End of story.
This sudden food daydream probably has you feigning for a taste! Fortunately for you, there are thousands of restaurants that have hopped on this tasty trend.
While I have been to several chicken and waffles places like Chicago’s Home of Chicken and Waffles and Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles, I needed to make this at home so I could satisfy the cravings whenever I had them!
After all, the best place to get any food craving satisfied is in the comfort of your own kitchen. With this recipe y’all won’t even need to look up places that serve chicken and waffles!
How To Eat Chicken and Waffles?
For those who are wise eating enthusiasts, it’s most common (and highly encouraged) to combine the waffle and chicken on a fork with syrup for the ultimate sweet, salty, and spicy bite!
Your heart may be questioning whether Chicken and Waffles go well together?
I’ve only got one reply for that…
ABSOLUTELY! In the strangest way, they go together perfectly. Nowadays you will even see people combining fried chicken and pancakes for a new age twist. The best thing you can do is try it!
What Goes With Chicken Waffles?
This isn’t even a question you need to ask, because I have you completely covered!! For sake of time, we’re going to focus on breakfast sides, but chicken and waffles is literally what you make it. Fries, mashed potatoes, chips, or whatever you’re in the mood for works great!
For incredible breakfast ideas and sides to go along with this recipe, check out these posts:
- Ever want to know how to make grits? This southern grits recipe is perfect! And these Gouda Grits are amazing!
- Need to learn how to make hash browns? This Hash Browns recipe is the best on the internet!
- These buttermilk waffles are a dream.
- Ever tried johnny cakes or hoe cakes? These are the ones to try for your upcoming brunch!
Perfect pancakes are my jam! These lemon ricotta pancakes, or this easy blueberry pancakes recipe, and even these brown sugar pancakes are incredible!
- Ever want to know how to make grits? This southern grits recipe is perfect!
- Need to learn how to make hash browns? This Hash Browns recipe is the best on the internet!
- These buttermilk waffles are a dream.
- Ever tried a johnny cakes or hoe cakes? These are the ones to try for your upcoming brunch!
- Perfect pancakes are my jam! These lemon ricotta pancakes, or this easy blueberry pancakes recipe and even these brown sugar pancakes are incredible!
If you love other amazing fried recipes, go HERE
Homemade Chicken and Waffles Recipe
Ingredients
- Buttermilk Waffles Recipe
- 8 chicken wings
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 teaspoons hot sauce
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 tablespoons cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons seasoned salt
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 2 teaspoons black pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
Instructions
- Add chicken wings to a ziploc bag.
- In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together buttermilk, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce and pour mixture over chicken in ziploc.
- Seal bag and marinate in refrigerator for at least 2 hours or up to 8 hours (overnight).
- While chicken marinades, prepare buttermilk waffles batter according to instructions HERE.
- When you are finished marinading chicken, add flour, cornstarch, seasoned salt, paprika, black pepper, garlic salt and onion powder to a paper bag and shake to blend well.
- Add 2 tablespoons of marinade to flour mixture and whisk into flour to form crumbs.
- Remove chicken from marinade and dip into seasoned flour thoroughly coating each wing.
- Add wings to a baking sheet. Once finished coating chicken, place in refrigerator.
- Add 3/4-1 inch of oil to a cast iron skillet or heavy bottom skillet and heat over medium high heat.
- While oil is warming, also turn on oven to 275 degrees.
- (This is my test for knowing when the oil is ready: My mom always tossed a tiny bit of flour in the oil and if it began to fry and sizzle the oil was ready).
- Fry four wings at a time making sure to not overcrowd the pan. After each side is golden brown, put the pan's top on the chicken to steam and make sure the inside of the chicken is done. Remove the top and continue to fry outside until it is crispy.
- Remove wings and place on paper towels to drain. Place wings on a baking sheet covered with parchment and add to oven while finishing the other wings.
- Fry the remaining chicken and drain and add to oven. Add the remaining wings to the oven.
- Add butter to waffles and allow to melt.
- Lastly, layer each finished waffle with two chicken wings, drizzle with warm pure maple syrup and sprinkle with confectioner's sugar and parsley to serve.
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Damn, I am going to have to do this recipe!!!!! I just have to get a waffle iron.
This recipe is awesome..
Hi I just read this and the recipe sounds delicious my question is if you put a lid on top of the frying pan to steam the chicken won’t water develop? I’ve never done that before which sounds great but I’m afraid of water dripping into the grease. By the way I’m a high fan I have and live you book I bake a lot but after read you book it changed the game!! Thanks
Paris
Awww thank you! It is actually something that I do just for a little bit of time (just a couple of minutes) and then I recrisp the chicken when frying without the lid on. It helps to cook the chicken throughout and then I crisp it back up afterwards.
I just wanted to thank you for sharing this recipe!! I made it tonight and it is the best fried chicken I have ever made and probably the best waffles I have ever had!! You taught me something new about frying chicken and I cannot wait to order your cookbook and try more of your recipes!! Thank you again 🙂
You just took me out of winter and warmed me straight up in the south, girl. I have been searching for the best recipe for this for a while. This is it! You nailed it! I used chicken breast strips instead of wings because it’s all I had when I found the recipe and I had to make it right away! Now I have to try the rest of your recipes! Haha #newfan
Hooray! Thank you Julee.
Hi there! I planned to make this recipe with chicken strips too. Do you recall how many tenders the batter covered?
Thanks loads
Have you tried this in the air fryer
Just commenting to say that i stumbled upon thris recipe a few years ago and it’s MAGICAL!!!! i don’t make it often because it’s definitely a southern, home cooking type recipe (which isn’t healthy), but it makes being bad feel so good. It’s worth it. I’ve made it for friends, for family who were over to visit, and just for me and my husband. Absolutely love this recipe! I can’t order chicken and waffles anywhere I go, because it won’t be THIS good. I’ve been spoiled!! Thanks so much for sharing.
Hooray this makes me so happy! Thank you so so much!
I got a Belgian waffle maker for Christmas. I had never eaten chicken and waffles before, so I googled around for a good recipe. So glad I picked this one! The chicken and waffles were fantastic! I wasn’t sure about the cinnamon and vanilla in the waffles, but combined with the flavors of the chicken, it was perfect. I used thin chicken breasts instead of the chicken wings. My family asked me to make this again next week. Thank you for sharing this delicious recipe.
Hooray thank you so much! I’m so so glad you enjoyed it!
Made this with one of my grandsons last night…besides drooling throughout the entire prep process…we fell off our chairs from devouring this immensely {heaven sent and divine yummy} recipe…it truly was a party in our mouths with our tastebuds doing a happy dance…needless to say ….will make it time and time again…and if anyone hasn’t tried it…just do it…no regrets!!!
I did substitute chicken strips for the wings,,thank you for sharing!!!!
My family and I just finished eating this for dinner and oh my goodness…words can’t describe how good it is. I’ve NEVER left a comment on a recipe even if I love it but I had to come let you know that this recipe goes beyond the great pictures and is truly amazing. Thanks for sharing!!
Wow thank you so so much Christina!!!! I’m so happy you left this comment. It always makes me proud when I know the recipes are working for people.