Marx Foods Ridiculously Delicious Challenge - Round 3
Stage 3: Recipe Makeover.
For this stage of the contest we were asked to make over the recipe of one of the other 15 contestants who had moved on to this round. For the makeover we had to use 3 of our ingredients that we had not used during the previous round and were allowed a lot of creativity in our interpretation of "makeover." Immediately I knew I wanted to make over Joanne's Oven-Fried Tepin Chili Chicken, Waffle and Juniper Infused Pomegranate Maple Syrup recipe and used her inspiration to create Chicken Waffle Dogs with a Cherry Chipotle Barbecue Dipping Sauce.
After making my decision my next thought was that I must be crazy! I've never made a corn dog much less my own sausage but apparently lack of skill doesn't seem to be a deterrent - lol!! I started with chopping up 4 chicken leg/thigh pieces including the fat and some skin to keep the sausage from getting dry after cooking.
Then I collected my Marx Foods ingredients: Tepin Chiles, Coconut Sugar and Dried Tart Cherries.
Since I would be using cherries in the sauce I wanted to add a few of them to the sausage so soaked a small amount of them in white wine while I get the rest of my ingredients together.
I knew I would be using the Tepin Chiles in the sausage along with the cherries and wine so I decided to round out the flavors with sage, thyme, cinnamon, sea salt and maple syrup.
I ground the Tepin Chiles before adding them to the chicken mixture.
Here's the chicken with all the ingredients before I mixed everything together. It's looking pretty good already!
Then I mixed the ingredients well before refrigerating overnight.
After refrigeratoing overnight, I put the chicken mixture into the food processor and pulsed until the meat was farily well ground.
I transferred the mix to the mixer and, using the paddle attachment, mixed for 5 minutes to develop the binding agents in the meat.
Now came the scarey part. I formed little sausages in plastic wrap. They didn't turn out very even, but I like the rustic look of my first effort!!
The sausages needed to be cooked before using them for my Chicken Waffle Dogs so I steamed the wrapped sausages until they reached an internal temperature of 165 degrees.
While the sausages were steaming I used Joanne's waffle recipe, substituting the coconut sugar in for the sugar called for in her recipe. I Also simmered the remaining cherries with white wine until the wine was absorbed. After the liquid was absorbed I combined them with chipotle peppers, more of the coconut sugar and premade barbeque sauce in the food processor and pulsed until well mixed.
For this stage of the contest we were asked to make over the recipe of one of the other 15 contestants who had moved on to this round. For the makeover we had to use 3 of our ingredients that we had not used during the previous round and were allowed a lot of creativity in our interpretation of "makeover." Immediately I knew I wanted to make over Joanne's Oven-Fried Tepin Chili Chicken, Waffle and Juniper Infused Pomegranate Maple Syrup recipe and used her inspiration to create Chicken Waffle Dogs with a Cherry Chipotle Barbecue Dipping Sauce.
After making my decision my next thought was that I must be crazy! I've never made a corn dog much less my own sausage but apparently lack of skill doesn't seem to be a deterrent - lol!! I started with chopping up 4 chicken leg/thigh pieces including the fat and some skin to keep the sausage from getting dry after cooking.
Then I collected my Marx Foods ingredients: Tepin Chiles, Coconut Sugar and Dried Tart Cherries.
Since I would be using cherries in the sauce I wanted to add a few of them to the sausage so soaked a small amount of them in white wine while I get the rest of my ingredients together.
I knew I would be using the Tepin Chiles in the sausage along with the cherries and wine so I decided to round out the flavors with sage, thyme, cinnamon, sea salt and maple syrup.
I ground the Tepin Chiles before adding them to the chicken mixture.
Here's the chicken with all the ingredients before I mixed everything together. It's looking pretty good already!
Then I mixed the ingredients well before refrigerating overnight.
After refrigeratoing overnight, I put the chicken mixture into the food processor and pulsed until the meat was farily well ground.
I transferred the mix to the mixer and, using the paddle attachment, mixed for 5 minutes to develop the binding agents in the meat.
Now came the scarey part. I formed little sausages in plastic wrap. They didn't turn out very even, but I like the rustic look of my first effort!!
The sausages needed to be cooked before using them for my Chicken Waffle Dogs so I steamed the wrapped sausages until they reached an internal temperature of 165 degrees.
While the sausages were steaming I used Joanne's waffle recipe, substituting the coconut sugar in for the sugar called for in her recipe. I Also simmered the remaining cherries with white wine until the wine was absorbed. After the liquid was absorbed I combined them with chipotle peppers, more of the coconut sugar and premade barbeque sauce in the food processor and pulsed until well mixed. After the sausages had cooled I unwrapped them, covered them in flour and inserted a stick into each one, preparing them for dipping in the waffle mix. 
After my oil was hot I dipped each "dog" into the waffle batter and fried until they were brown.
Since I had made them appertizer size, I put a number of them on a plate with the cherry chipotle barbeque sauce for serving.
I was thrilled with how this turned out and am still amazed that I made sausage! Wow!!!!! Thank you Marx Foods for including me in this competition and pushing my creativity and cooking skills to a new level!!!!
After my oil was hot I dipped each "dog" into the waffle batter and fried until they were brown.
Since I had made them appertizer size, I put a number of them on a plate with the cherry chipotle barbeque sauce for serving.
I was thrilled with how this turned out and am still amazed that I made sausage! Wow!!!!! Thank you Marx Foods for including me in this competition and pushing my creativity and cooking skills to a new level!!!!Edited to add that my second choice for the recipe makeover was the fish tacos by Lawyer Loves Lunch
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