One of the most popular dishes right now is chicken and waffles. This Amish Sunday dinner and famed Black dish is being made throughout the US.I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and make it. The only problem? It has to be vegan.
The vegan chicken part was easy.It was simply air frying Gardein's chicken tenders in the air fryer.
This was the easy as pie part. It was just air frying the tenders at first 400 degrees F for eight minutes, then turning. They were finished at 360 degrees F for five minutes.
The next part was hard.
I used Bisquik's gluten free mix which gives the finished product s dense texture. 
To make the waffles vegan it was adding two cups of almond milk which produced a creamier batter (the recipe called for a cup and a half but that was a mistake. The batter looked like wallpaper paste). The recipe called for three tablespoons of vegetable oil along with one egg. I used Vegg's Uncaged egg baking mix for the egg substitute. One teaspoon of the mix is mixed with half a teaspoon of granulated sugar and a quarter of a cup of milk. This is thoroughly mixed before added to the batter.
I chilled it for half an hour, simply because I needed time to prep the waffle iron and air fryer.
I used my batter distributor to evenly pour the batter onto the iron after spraying the plates with cooking spray (I used Stop and Shop's butter flavored one).This is the batter precooked.It looks like gooey toast.
This was the first batch which was sorely disappointing. 
They were half cooked and stuck to the plates.
I didn't cook them long enough. Bisquick recommends cooking the waffles for five minutes.
Depending on your waffle iron I'd say ten minutes should do it. This was the third batch.
They're not deeply golden but they are perfectly formed. Both were served with maple syrup which is an interesting add on (but not one I particularly like. There has to be another sauce to put on both)
Would I try this again? Maybe. I may add soy cheese to the waffles to make them more savory and nix the maple syrup.Maybe a barbecue sauce????)
Chicken and waffles are the latest thing right now. I will try them again, - maybe less sweet and more sandwich like for the chicken. The best part is that it was all vegan,
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