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-We're not working today.
[ Laughs ]
Everyone's working from home.
Go away. [ Laughs ]
Just kidding.
Are we doing this here?
This happening?
This is happening.
All right, come on in.
Here's the deal.
No one can work
from an office anymore,
so we're cooking from here.
Welcome to my home.
I'm Farideh.
"Cooking Show."
Here we are.
Today we're gonna make
chicken and waffles.
Everybody's probably missing
going out to brunch
and waiting in those long lines
on the weekend
like you guys all love doing.
So, instead, you can make brunch
at your own apartment.
All you really need
is some chicken and buttermilk,
and the rest of the stuff you
definitely have in your pantry.
Let's start out with moving
our bowls around everywhere.
Ooh! We're going to
debone our chicken.
So the thing about
fried chicken, for me,
is that it always cooks
a lot nicer boneless.
So I want to keep the skin on.
So it's really easy.
Use the tip of your knife blade
and just go right up against
and work the bone out,
just pulling the meat off
a little bit.
I'm gonna take my knife blade,
and I'm gonna go under
and just remove meat.
And you can basically just
pull it like this.
Bone out. Save this
because guess what, guys?
You can make chicken stock.
I know everybody is, like,
at home and like,
"I need stock.
I need to do soup,"
blah, blah, blah.
Save these bones, and you just
boil this with some water,
and you have homemade
chicken stock, okay?
Now I've got
a chicken thigh here.
I could trim off
some of this fat
and some of the skin,
but guess what?
It's gonna be really delicious
and crispy when it comes out,
so I'm gonna leave it on.
Put that into the bowl.
If you look here,
there's, like, a line.
That's where the bone is.
Peel that away.
Hold that.
Right through there.
Just gonna pull it a little bit,
expose the old bone.
-That's what he said.
-[ Laughs ] Ian!
-How dare I?
-How dare you use my joke?
It's got a big bone.
-That's what she said.
-Cut that off.
Deboned all my thighs.
I wanted that to sound
dirtier than it did.
But, anyways, I'm gonna
brine these buttermilk.
Some people do, like, a pickle
brine with their fried chicken.
You could do any kind
of brine, really.
It's just adding flavor.
It's making it more tender.
It's gonna be delicious.
I'm gonna use buttermilk
because I'm also using
buttermilk in the waffles,
and I always hate when recipes
have you use buttermilk,
like 1/4 cup or 1/2 cup
of something,
and then you have
a whole pint of buttermilk.
What else do you do
with the rest of it?
You brine your chicken in it.
Just enough to cover it up.
Gonna refrigerate this.
This is gonna brine
for at least four hours,
preferably overnight.
We're just gonna have
a cup of coffee,
chill out, go watch some TV.
What do you think, Ian?
Sound good?
-Yeah, let's watch "The Office."
-We're gonna watch "The Office."
Our chicken has been brining
for about four hours or so.
I'm gonna make
a really nice syrup
to go along with this, okay?
I am 100% behind fried chicken.
I love fried chicken so much.
I think it's great.
It's good for picnics.
It's good for whatever.
The sweet and the savory,
like, chicken and waffles --
I don't really get it.
People out there,
you guys like it.
Someone actually asked me
to make this recipe,
which is the reason
why I'm doing it right now.
So, I figure we're gonna
do chicken and waffles,
we're gonna make it
a little boozy, too.
So this is gonna be
about 3/4 cup of maple syrup,
and then I'm gonna add
1/4 cup bourbon.
Ooh! Just enough.
Got to open up my other
bottle now, 'cause don't worry.
If there's one thing I know
about quarantining yourself --
make sure you're surrounded
with booze.
If you're almost at the end
of your booze, like I was here,
make sure you got extra,
and I do have extra.
Okay, so 1/4 cup
right into there,
about 1/4 cup of honey
right on in, too.
And then we're gonna just
emulsify some butter in
after this warms up.
And this is a good
waffle recipe.
It's a good
fried chicken recipe.
It's a good syrup recipe.
You could drizzle this over
just pancakes for breakfast.
This will cook for like
three minutes maybe.
We're gonna add our butter in
a little at a time,
let it emulsify.
And again, I don't need to,
like, burn out the bourbon.
It will taste
nice and boozy, though.
And the cool thing about
chicken waffles, I think,
is that you don't really
necessarily
have to have it for breakfast,
huh?
You can have it for lunch
or dinner.
It's great.
-Can do whatever you want.
-Do whatever you want.
You're in quarantine right now.
[ Laughs ]
Time is irrelevant.
So we're having fun.
We're in our robe
[laughs] and sweat pants.
All right.
That is good to go.
Ooh, Sicily.
Ooh, that's so good.
That bourbon is what's gonna
make this whole dish the best.
We're basically just gonna put
our chicken into the dredge
and then fry it.
My batter for your chicken is
salt, paprika,
all-purpose flour, cornstarch.
So it all goes in to a bowl.
Gonna give it a little mix.
You probably have all these
ingredients in your cupboard.
If you want to add
some more spices,
different things in here.
I'm using paprika.
I just like the paprika
'cause it has a nice flavor,
but it also adds
a little bit of color.
Use whatever you have.
Make use of what's in
your pantry, okay?
Let me also check
my temperature.
Want my oil to be about 350,
so let me just make sure.
I'm waiting for my oil
to come to temp.
I'm gonna keep this aside.
I'm gonna make my waffle batter
while this all happens.
We need about 4 tablespoons
of butter.
I'm gonna melt it.
More buttermilk,
so about 3/4 of a cup.
1/4 cup milk,
like a teaspoon of
apple cider vinegar.
I like adding vinegar
also to, like, my crusts
for pie and stuff like that.
It kind of helps me get crispier
'cause that's what you want.
You want crispy waffles,
and you want crispy
fried chicken.
Teaspoon of vanilla.
In this bowl, I've got
baking soda, salt, and flour,
and I'm gonna add
my sugar on in.
Into this bowl,
gonna put an egg white.
Gonna whip this egg white.
Yolk goes right into
the wet ingredients.
You saw me plop that in there.
Shell goes wherever
I want to put it.
My apartment.
I'll do what I want.
We're gonna whip egg whites
into this.
That's gonna help
make the waffles fluffier.
The apple cider vinegar
is gonna make them crispier.
It's gonna be delicious.
You know how to tell
if it's done, right?
It's peaks, but then you also --
if you put it over your head,
it doesn't fall.
Ready?
I'm always so scared to do this.
Okay.
Ah!
[ Laughs ]
Once it cools down a little bit,
I'm gonna add
the melted butter into this.
Then I'm gonna add
my dry ingredients into here.
I know why they do this, but at,
like, ski slopes and stuff --
do you ski or snowboard?
-Never been skiing.
-You've never?
Oh, my gosh.
This is a kid from Ohio,
don't forget,
I love snowboarding.
And every time you go
snowboarding, though,
and no matter where you are,
they always sell waffles
at, like, the lift lines at
the base of the mountains.
I don't know why,
but they do smell so good.
I don't even like waffles
that much,
but every time I'm like,
"Maybe we should get
some waffles."
It's so bizarre to me.
Gonna fold the egg white
into this guy.
It's gonna be nice and fluffy.
Gonna make it
a little bit more airy.
And the folding technique
is just so we don't
completely collapse.
We don't want to get, like,
rid of all that air
that we just built
into the egg white.
This is ready.
We're gonna fry some chicken.
We're gonna cook some waffles.
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
You're ready?
We're doing this? Yes.
-You want me --
do you want me to say it?
-I don't care.
About 1/2 a cup in each.
Closing it on up.
It's gonna tell me
when it's ready.
No need to worry about that.
Let's do our fried chicken,
okay? Okay.
Roll up the old
bathrobe sleeves.
We're gonna go right on in
to the chicken, the dredge.
This is gonna be good,
crispy, cook nice and evenly.
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Oh, yeah.
This is gonna be good.
It looks really good.
Fried, fried,
chicky, chicky, chicky, chicky,
fry, fry.
Chicky-chicky-fry-fry!
Fry-fry-chicky-chicky.
These are looking like
they're done, too.
Okay. Look at that.
Oh, that's beautiful.
It's crispy.
It smells like snowboarding.
My fried chicken.
Look at that.
It looks beautiful.
Let me get drinks for us.
You're gonna have one, too.
Ian, this is for you, my friend.
Cheers. Sicily.
-Sicily.
-So crispy.
Ooh. Yes.
Oh, man.
It's, like, juicy.
It's crunchy as fuck.
That bourbon --
I can smell it.
Everything about this is good.
The waffles are delicious.
The fried chicken is,
like, so crispy
and just good and easy.
And this sauce just ties
it all together.
Oh, I don't even have to eat it
to know it's perfect.
But I'm going to.
Mmm. [ Laughs ]
Mm-hmm.
Shit. That's good.
You know,
you're stuck at home.
You're a waste of space.
No one in your apartment
or your family
thinks you're good for anything.
But guess what?
You're good for something.
You're good for this, okay?
This is what you are good for.
Make it. For the recipe,
click the link below.
Show them.
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