Spicy Cornmeal Waffles with Popcorn Chicken and Honey

Ingredients

• To serve: honey, hot sauce, thinly sliced spring onion and lime wedges
• Popcorn chicken
• 6 skinned and boned chicken thighs, cut into bite-sized pieces
• 375 ml (1½ cups) buttermilk, well shaken
• Juice of 2 limes
• 2 tbsp hot sauce
• For deep-frying: vegetable oil
• 220 gm rice flour
• 75 gm (½ cup) self-raising flour
• 1½ tsp each ground chilli, ground cumin and smoked paprika
• Spicy cornmeal waffles
• 225 gm (1½ cups) plain flour
• 170 gm (1 cup) fine polenta
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp each ground chilli and ground cumin
• 600 ml buttermilk
• 90 gm melted butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp hot sauce
• 3 spring onions, thinly sliced