🧇 Healthy Chicken Waffle Sandwich Recipe

chicken and waffle sandwich with strawberries in background

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🧇 Healthy Chicken Waffle Sandwich Recipe

This award- winning chicken and waffle sandwich marries waffles, healthy chicken strips and strawberries with a bit of chili sauce zip. It can be a breakfast or dinner and is versatile in that you can use store-bought waffles if you are in a hurry.

Course Breakfast, Main Course

Cuisine North American

Keyword chicken, sandwich, strawberry, waffle

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 20

Total Time 40

Servings servings

Calories 407kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Ingredients

Waffles

¾ cup whole wheat flour
¾ cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon granulated white sugar
1 cup reduced fat milk 1%
1 medium sized orange - the juice and zest
4 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 egg yolks well beaten
2 egg whites
¼ cup maple syrup no sugar added

Sandwich Fixin’s:

1 375 gram pkg. Zabiha Halal Breakfast chicken strips -original flavour *Any chicken or turkey bacon can be substituted
2 cups hulled and sliced fresh strawberries
1 cup whipped cream preferably light
½ cup Strawberry reduced sugar jam raspberry or mixed berry can be substituted
2 tablespoon red chili dip/spread

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Cook bacon (Zabiha Halal Breakfast Chicken strips) on stove top until cooked through, as per package directions (about 5 minutes) and lightly browned. Set aside.
In a large bowl, stir flours, baking powder, sugar and salt together.
In a medium bowl, combine milk and vegetable oil with beaten egg yolk; stir in maple syrup, orange juice and zest. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir only until blended.
Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry and fold into batter.
Pour waffle batter onto hot waffle iron and cook waffles until lightly brown. You will have 8 waffles.
Once waffles are cool, lightly toast in toaster until desired crispness.
Sauce for chicken waffles: Mix strawberry jam, whipped cream and chili dip/spread together
Assemble: Spread strawberry jam mixture on the inside of one waffle, top breakfast chicken strips, then with sliced strawberries. Spread the jam mixture on the inside on another waffle. And place on top of sandwich (jam side down) . Repeat for remaining 3 sandwiches.

Notes

*See post content for important information (recipe variations, substitutions and tips!)

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