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Cottage Cheese Oat Waffles

From the author:

This past spring, we went to lunch with new friends at the Square Grouper on Cudjoe Dey. I'm a sucker for fried chicken served over waffles, which was the special of the day, and that's exactly what I ordered. I had a feeling Miss Gloria would order it too.

Here's my version of the dish which started out as the one on the New York Times Cooking site. I made some tweaks inspired by Jane Brody's cottage cheese oat biscuits, which I've made and loved for years.

Ingredients
  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 cup ground oats
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour (next time, I'll try white whole wheat)
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar or maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup cottage cheese
  • 1 cup milk
  • 4 large eggs
  • Chicken cutlets
Instructions

  1. Melt the butter and set it aside.

  2. Grind the oats until fairly fine in your food processor, You want a little bit of texture left.

  3. Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda and pulse those into the oats.

  4. In a separate bowl, whisk together the cottage cheese, milk, melted butter, and eggs.

  5. Pulse the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. The batter should look thick (and delicious!).

  6. Preheat a waffle iron and lightly coat with butter unless your brand of iron tells you this isn't necessary, as mind did. Cook waffles (using about 1/2 cup batter per waffle) until golden and crisp. Keep them warm in a 200 degrees (F) oven until ready to serve.

  7. For the chicken, I bought pre-fried chicken cutlets from Bishop's Orchards, a local grocery and farm near us. That way, I could simply heat them, slice, and serve over the waffles with syrup. You are welcome to make your own!

  8. This made about eight waffles. You could cut the recipe in half, but why not make them all and freeze the ones you don't eat for an easy breakfast down the line? I can picture them next time with a big serving of fruit and plain yogurt drizzled with honey or syrup!