Lunch & Dinner
Hot Honey Chicken Waffle Sandwich
Sweet heat, crunch and a waffle. Drizzle a crispy chicken cutlet with hot honey, add pickles and a cool slaw, and stack it all between two warm sandwich waffles.
- Prep10 min
- Cook15 min
- Total25 min
- Servings2
- DifficultyEasy
Hot honey, honey infused with chiles, went from pizza shops to everywhere. On a waffle it's chicken-and-waffles you can hold in one hand.
Steps
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Tips & Swaps
- Tip: Making your own cutlets? Use the method from our Chicken Avocado Wafflewich.
- Shortcut: Store-bought breaded cutlets or tenders keep this to about 25 minutes.
- For kids: Drizzle their cutlet with plain honey instead of hot honey.
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In Your Kitchen
Putting Hot Honey Chicken Waffle Sandwich on your menu? Here’s where it sells and how it works at volume.
- Best for
- Fast casual, concessions
- The moment
- Dinner, game day
- Why it works for you
- On-trend flavor on a portable sandwich, built from a stock cutlet.
- Batch & prep ahead
- Fry or bake the cutlets in batches and hold them hot and crisp. Make the slaw ahead and keep it cold.
- Hold & reheat
- Warm the waffles on a flat-top or in a toaster oven. Drizzle the hot honey over the chicken to order so the crust stays crisp.
- Plating
- Pickles and slaw on top of the chicken, wrapped in paper or served open in a basket.
- Holding
- Hold the cooked cutlets hot at 135°F or above and the slaw cold at 41°F or below.

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