Savory Smoked Chicken and Waffles with Apricot/Whiskey syrup
Description
I realized halfway through my day today that it was “National waffle day”. The idea for this recipe ensued. (Thank goodness)
First of all, Bravo to whomever invented a national day to celebrate waffles. Secondly, I basically always make things sweeter than they’re intended. ( sue me) However, with this one, I really wanted to do something different. plus I had sweet potatoes and chicken that I needed to use. They say necessity breeds genius. I needed waffles.
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Ingredients
For Waffle
- 2C Bisquick (I know, I know)
- 1 Egg
- 2T Vegetable oil
- 11/3C Milk
- 1T Brown Sugar
- 3T Yellow Onions, diced
- 1T Salted Butter ( for onions)
- 1t Cinnamon
- 1 Baked Sweet potato, grated
For Chicken
- 8 Skinless Chicken Breasts
- 1T EVOO
- S&P to taste
- 1/2C Apricot BBQ Sauce from Traeger
For Syrup
- 1 Apricot, peeled and diced
- 4T Water
- 1T Sugar
- 2T Honey
- 4T Dark Maple Syrup
- 1/2C Traeger vanilla-clove Simple Syrup
- 1/4C Whiskey
Instructions
Waffle
- Mix the Bisquick, egg, oil, milk, brown sugar, cinnamon, and sweet potato.
- Sautee the onion in the butter until fragrant and translucent and add to the batter.
- Cook in a waffle iron ( this will make 4-5 waffles)
- *Make sure you grease the waffle iron A LOT. Seriously, use a TON*
Chicken
- Turn Traeger to “smoke”.
- Cover chicken in evoo and S&P. Place chicken in smoker and smoke for 20 minutes.
- Turn the smoker up to high heat and cover in BBQ sauce. Flip the chicken and glaze the other side. cook for 5-6 minutes until caramelized cooked through.
Syrup
- In a sauce pan, stir the fruit, sugar, and the water until soft and breaking apart. The water will have mostly evaporated at this point.
- Stir in the simple syrup, honey, maple syrup and whisk until well combined and the fruit it totally smashed and incorporated. Turn up the heat to a boil and add the whiskey stirring continuously for 1 minute.
- Remove from heat.
- Layer the waffle first, top with a sliced chicken breast, and cover in the syrup. This dish tastes amazing, but could totally use some color! I garnished mine with avocado, but fresh fruit would be amazing too.
- This is the perfect weeknight dinner and a really fun twist on chicken and waffles!
