Find out the answer to : what is the secret to good fried chicken? Is chicken and waffles good together? Chicken and waffles ingredients, how do you add flavor to waffles? and more in this version of a southern classic!

recipe below!

Brine
Mix the below ingredients, and then divide into 2. Use 1/2 for the brine and save half for the breading.

30g/2tbsp fresh ground black pepper
30g/2tbsp paprika
10g/2tsp Garlic powder
10g/2tsp Dried oregano
10g/2tsp dried basil
3g/1/2 tsp Cayenne pepper.

Once divided into two add the following, nix throughly and then add chicken to brine, overnight preferably.

Nice bunch of fresh oregano.
250ML/1 cup buttermilk
1 egg

Apple butter
1 granny smith
1 honey crisp
1 jalapeno
113g/ 4oz Brown sugar
213g/8oz unsalted butter
1 stick cinnamon
10g/2tsp ground cinnamon
500ml/2 cups water

Cook apples down with sugar and spices, add water, reduce by half, blitz into apple sauce and add to whipped butter. You can approximate this with just putting apple sauce and butter on your waffles

Wake up and smell the gravy baby.
2 carrots
2 stalks celery
1 onion
15g/1 Tbsp Pink Peppercorns
250ml/1 cup strong coffee
2 mini bottles of jack Daniels or your choice of whiskey.
45ml/3 Tbsp Maple syrup.
500ml/ 2 cups water
Bunch sage
3 bay leaves.

Prepared roux : 30mg/2Tbsp unsalted butter, and 30mg/ 2 Tbsp flour. Melt butter, whisk in flour.

sauté veg until brown add water , and herbs, simmer for 45 minutes, strain , thicken with roux. Then sauté Pepper corns in another Tbsp unsalted butter, deglaze with whiskey, cook out alcohol, add prepared gravy, maple and reduce until desired consistency.

Waffles
500g/2 cups flour
5g/1tsp baking powder
2.5g/ 1/2 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
60mg/4tbsp melted unsalted butter
113ml/1 cup soda water
113ml/1/2 cup buttermilk
15ml/1tbsp vanilla essence
4 strips smoked bacon (beercan)
Whip egg whites, slowly whisk the butter intro the egg yolks and buttermilk, fold into whites, add vanilla, fold in dry ingredients, slowly add soda , add bacon. Make into waffles.

Just get some bisquick or other stuff if you cant be bothered making waffles.

Frying the chicken :
Mix 1.5 cups flour and half cup cornstarch, 1 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp baking soda with the other half of the spice mix from the brine. Add your brined chicken to the bag or container , coat thoroughly then fry when your oil is roughly 390 F.

0:00 intro
0:49 brine talk
1:15 brine
2:12 apple butter talk
3:12 butter make
4:02 gravy talk
4:49 making the gravy baby
6:01 Waffle talk
6:29 waffle making
7:20 chicken talk
7:41 chicken make
8:15 egg talk
8:37 egg make
8:59 money shots