One of my favorite southern dishes is buttermilk fried chicken. So I decided to kick it up a notch with my Buttermilk Fried Chicken and Sweet Potato Waffles.
What ingredients do you need to make chicken and waffles?
Let’s start by gathering our ingredients. aka mise en place.
Let’s start by gathering our ingredients. In chef speak, we call that the mise en place. It’s also a great idea to get your ingredients together to see if you’re missing anything. It also makes the cooking process easier and faster.
What Kind of Sweet Potatoes Should You Use?
You can use leftover sweet potatoes, bake them, steam them or microwave them. Any way you cook up your sweet potatoes just make sure they’re soft enough to mash-up for the waffle batter.
*Soaking the chicken tenders in buttermilk makes the fried chicken even better, but it’s not a deal-breaker.
I was actually quite surprised how much the sweet potatoes helped the waffles. They were moist and flavorful without any hint that there might be sweet potatoes in them.
I cooked up all the batter and froze the extra cooked waffles for another day of deliciousness! The chicken was crisp and moist the perfect combination and the butter pecan syrup added another layer of flavor to the dish.
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Fried Chicken and Sweet Potato Waffles
Ingredients
Sweet Potato Waffles
- 1 cup cooked sweet potato mashed
- 4 large eggs
- 12 ounces buttermilk
- 6 tablespoons butter melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 2 ¼ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
Fried Chicken Tenders
- 12 oz buttermilk
- 1 pound chicken tenders approx 12 pieces
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon paprika optional
- 2 cups vegetable oil for frying chicken
Butter Pecan Syrup
- ¼ cup pecans chopped
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup maple syrup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees to hold waffles and chicken
- In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together sweet potatoes, melted butter, eggs, and vanilla until combined. Add in milk and continue to mix until well blended.
- Stir sweet-potato mixture into flour mixture until combined. It’s okay for it to have some lumps and bits of sweet potato.
- Place a wire rack on a baking pan and set in the oven.
- Heat waffle iron to medium-high and lightly brush grids with melted butter.
- Ladle about ½ cup batter into the center of iron (grids should be full but not overflowing), close, and cook until iron stops steaming and waffles are golden brown, about 4 minutes (or make according to your manufacturer's instructions).
- Transfer waffles to wire rack in oven to keep warm. Repeat with remaining batter.
Fried Chicken Tenders
- Place chicken tenders in a bowl and cover with buttermilk. Turn to coat each piece and let them sit for at least an hour up to overnight.
- Put the flour in a bowl or baking pan adding in sea salt, black pepper and paprika. Mix well.
- Lift out the chicken tenders and allow them excess buttermilk to drain off and then place it into the seasoned flour. Completely coat the tenders and place on a dish until ready to fry.
- Heat oil in a large skillet and place half the tenders at a time into the pan (or as many that will fit. Do not overcrowd the pan)
- Fry on each side for 4-5 minutes until they are completely cooked and have good color.
- Place cooked tenders on a wire rack in oven to drain and keep hot until service.
Butter Pecan Syrup
- Lightly toast pecans in a small pan over medium heat until fragrant, about 5 minutes.
- Add butter and cook until melted and bubbling.
- Stir in syrup and cook until warmed.
Brunch with Sam
Chicken and waffles is my favorite meal! Thanks for sharing your sweet potato waffle recipe!
Jennifer
This recipe looks absolutely fantastic. I will be making this for my family next week for sure.
Mama Maggie's Kitchen
It looks delicious. I wish this were in front of me right now.
Leslie
I still have not tried chicken and waffles! But your recipe makes me want to dive on in!! Especially with those sweet potato waffles!!
Christie Gagnon
I love chicken and waffles, and the inclusion of sweet potato in the waffle batter and pecans in the syrup sounds so delicious!
Sue
What a wonderful combination of flavors! Who knew that you could add sweet potatoes to waffles!!
Marina
My husband loves buttermilk fried chicken and my daughter loves waffles. A match made in heaven
Emily Flint
I love everything about this recipe. How smart to add sweet potatoes to the waffles and the butter pecan syrup is like the icing on the cake. Perfection!
Alexandra
Love the addition of the sweet potato to the waffles. What a delicious meal – so comforting and tasty.
Sara
STOP IT! I love salty and sweet and chicken and waffles are one of my favorites. This twist is so fun!
Muna Kenny
My favorite two together, that’s heaven! These clicks are mouth watering Chef 🙂
Chef Dennis Littley
They were delicious!!! Thanks so much for stopping by!
Kevin @ Closet Cooking
Ship some of this to me for breakfast tomorrow! Yum!
Chef Dennis Littley
Thanks so much for stopping by Kevin! They would certainly have made a delicious breakfast.
Larry
A meal fit for a true Southener and looks delicious. I am going to have to try chicken and waffles to see what the fascination is. The sweet potato version makes more since to me than a normal breakfast waffle.
Chef Dennis Littley
The sweet potato waffles were such a pleasant surprise Larry, I could have them for breakfast too!