Waffle Sandwiches–Woo Hoo!

Waffle sandwiches are all the rage now. Frankly, it’s a marvelous idea. It makes waffles become something other than a breakfast food. It’s a novel way to have “breakfast” for lunch or dinner.

Waffles also have great taste which make them an excellent choice to replace bread or rolls in sandwiches. Best part is if you make the waffles yourself, you can use whole grain flour making them quite healthy. But no matter how you make them, they are a novel and great sandwich hack.

How Easy Is This?

These waffle sandwiches can be made totally homemade or made with convenience ingredients. Now, how easy is that?

Certainly if you have time, you can make your own waffles from scratch. Likewise, when it comes to the chicken strips, you can make your own as well. Here’s a couple of excellent from-scratch recipes–there’s my air fryer pecan crusted chicken strips and my chili corn chip chicken strips. The garlic smoky paprika oil will work well with either, but if you just want to do a plain crunchy coating, that’s just fine too.

Now we get to the time-saving way. First of all, you can always make waffles from baking mix or pancake/waffle mix. That’s a big time saver. However, there’s nothing wrong with the frozen toaster variety either.

As for the chicken, there’s many fine varieties of crispy chicken strips. So you only have to reheat them. In fact, in these I used a major-brand chicken strips and used a pancake/waffle mix for the waffles. One thing I did do because the waffles didn’t seem crisp enough was pop them in the oven for a couple of minutes to crisp ’em up.

Smoky Garlic Oil

This gives the chicken an extra kick. All you do is toss the warm chicken strips in the oil mixture and away you go. But make sure to use a high-quality smoky paprika as the flavor will be much better.

Now just add a dollop of mayo, some lettuce and tomato and you’re all set.

The Recipe

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Smoky Garlic Chicken Waffle Sandwiches

Use waffles as bread!

Prep Time5 minutes mins

Cook Time0 minutes mins

Course: Brunch, Main, Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: main course sandwiches, waffle sandwiches

Servings: 2

Calories: 570kcal

Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb crispy chicken strips about 6 pieces cooked
• 4 waffles about 3-inches square

Smoky Garlic Oil:

• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp smoky paprika

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Instructions

• Mix the smoky garlic oil ingredients in a small bowl. Toss warm chicken strips in the mixture to coat.
• Build sandwich with lettuce, tomato chicken strips and any sandwich spread you like.

Notes

You can use all convenience ingredients as I did or make everything from scratch. See post for suggestions.

Nutrition

Serving: 1sanwich | Calories: 570kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 29g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 23g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 91mg | Sodium: 544mg | Potassium: 521mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 1591IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 172mg | Iron: 5mg

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Why go to those fast-food joints for chicken tenders?  Make it better at home and with real breast-meat chicken.  No anonymous meat in here!

I was intrigued by this brand of hot sauce ever since a fellow blogger used it for a wing recipe.

Have to say, I am definitely NOT a fan of hot HOT food or sauces.  I like a nice hot sauce, but it has to have good flavor, not just tons of heat.

I found the original variety in both my stores, but I really wanted their “flavors.” Especially this chili garlic and chipolte. Those varieties are not to be found here so I had to go to my pals at Amazon–these guys always come through for me LOL.  I could get a variety pack at the same price per bottle that they want in the grocery store.

I got the idea for this off of Cholula’s website in their recipes. Naturally I always have to change stuff, and I thought the introduction of some panko crumbs would improve this. Funny thing is, I had no club soda or seltzer and all I could get in my local convenience store was an assortment of regular sodas (pops).  I just guessed that ginger ale or lemon-lime would be a good substitute.  Beer would be too, but the rest of that would go to waste where the other options wouldn’t, so I chose the lemon-lime variety.  But the original club soda/seltzer or beer, etc., would make a nice and tasty change.


My chicken breasts were about 8 oz each.  They were bigger ones, but you’d need about 1 pound to serve 2 for a dinner, and more if you are doing this as an appetizer for a party.

Use any flavor hot sauce you wish.  I just liked the flavor of the chili garlic with this.

A nice dipping sauce would go well here.  Offhand I’d use some mayo with some of the chili garlic hot sauce, a shake or 2 of dehydrated onion and some dry ranch dressing mix.




Cholula Chicken Strips

Cholula Chili Garlic Chicken Strips

Cholula Chili Garlic Chicken Strips

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