Keto Chicken and Waffles [+Video]

Name: Keto Chicken and Waffles
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 ¼ cup Super Fine Almond Flour (Bob’s Red Mill); 1/4 tsp Natural Ancient Sea Salt; 1 tbsp Baking Powder (Bob’s Red Mill); 1/4 cup Granular Monk Fruit Erythritol Granulated; 1/4 cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk; 3 large Eggs (split into yolks and whites); 2 tsp Vanilla Extract; 1/4 cup Butter (Melted); 1 lb Chicken Wings (I prefer whole chicken wings, but drummettes work too); 1 tbsp Baking Powder (Bob’s Red Mill); 1/4 tsp Natural Ancient Sea Salt; 1/2 tsp Black Pepper; 1/2 tsp Smoked Paprika; 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder; 1/2 tsp Onion Powder; 2 tbsp Olive Oil (or avocado oil); Keto Pancake Syrup

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In honor of Women’s Month, I teamed up with my friends at Bob’s Red Mill to share a recipe inspired by an influential woman in my life. This Keto Chicken & Waffles recipe is inspired by my mom. She can eat breakfast all day, introduced me to soul food, and quite literally has been my cheerleader through all of life’s peaks and valleys. This dish is a combo of two of my most popular recipes: almond flour waffles and air fryer fried chicken. I hope that you’ll enjoy this dish now or for a special day like Mother’s Day.

Keto Chicken and Waffles plated beside a pack of almond flour

Why Make This

Soul food minus the carbs: this recipe is a combo of two of my most popular dishes (almond flour waffles and air fryer fried chicken). By skipping out on flour and breading, this dish is only a fraction of the carbs.
Perfect for breakfast lovers: If you’re like my mom and me, then you could eat breakfast for dinner. The great thing about this dish is that it has a little bit of both.

Ingredients Needed

Almond Flour Waffles

Bob’s Red Mill Super Fine Almond Flour: I mention this in all of my almond flour recipes, but be sure to get super-fine and blanched almond flour. I love Bob’s because of the packaging (uses a velcro-like closure), which keeps the bag closed and my almond flour fresh.
Bob’s Red Mill Baking Powder: be sure that this is fresh as it helps the waffles rise.
Sea Salt: this helps to balance out the sweet flavors in the almond flour waffles
Granular Monk Fruit Erythritol: I’m using a keto sweetener that is a blend of monk fruit and Erythritol. I find that the blend balances the cooling effect
Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk: You can use any milk that you prefer, but I like almond milk as a low-carb option. I use vanilla almond milk, but you could use unflavored too
Eggs: I used large eggs, but split them into yolks and whites since they are needed separately in this recipe
Vanilla Extract
Butter: I’m using cooled, but melted butter.

Air Fryer Fried Chicken

Chicken Wings: I’m using whole chicken wings, but drummettes work too. My chicken was thawed out and raw
Spices: the flavor of these wings comes from spices like sea salt, black pepper, smoked paprika, garlic powder, and onion powder.
Bob’s Red Mill Baking Powder: the secret ingredient to crispy chicken without deep frying, flour or breading (whether its oven fried wings or air fryer fried) is baking powder.
Olive Oil: I use this or Avocado Oil, depending on which oils for air frying I have on hand.

spices, eggs, vanilla extract, vanilla almond milk, almond flour, butter, chicken wings and baking powder on separate bowls

How to Make Keto Chicken and Waffles

The best way to learn how to make this dish is to watch the video tutorial. But, you can narrow this down to four main steps:

Make the almond flour waffle batter
Add the batter to a waffle maker and cook
Toss the chicken in the baking powder and spices
Add the chicken to the air fryer and crisp

Top Tips & FAQs

Air Fry or Bake the wings: if you don’t have an air fryer, then you can use my oven fried chicken wings instead.
Follow the directions on your waffle iron for adding batter and cooking: You can look at your waffle iron’s instruction manual for how much batter to add and the amount of cook time. Lost the manual? Google the make and model and it usually comes right up.

Can you do keto with just chicken?

Keto is about limiting carbs for the purpose of staying in ketosis. And, what I love about it is that it’s super flexible. This means that you could decide to have chicken as your primary protein if you want or even be a vegetarian and still follow a keto way of eating.

How many carbs are in almond flour waffles?

This depends on the size of your waffles. A Belgian waffle is about 3-4 standard almond waffles. Each regular waffle has about 3g net carbs.

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