Fried Chicken and Cheesy Biscuits with Jalapeno Gravy

I know I know...I have already done this, but we did not have much in the fridge after we woke up at noon Saturday.  Since I have been working on my presentation more lately, I wanted to try to make my Fried Chicken and Cheesy Biscuits with Jalapeno Gravy look more appealing to the eye.  This is hard to do especially that everything is covered in gravy, but I had to take a stab at it.

I had a million things going at once since I had a late night and woke up starving and tried to move as quickly as a I could.  First I made a quick biscuit dough and let it rest while my little toaster oven was pre-heating.  I popped it the toaster oven for about 10 to 15 minutes.

Chopped up the jalapeno, onion and garlic and let it cook down in olive oil for a little while.  I like to try to extract out all the flavors and heat as much as possible from it.  I added the flour and let that cook a bit and slowly added in the milk until it was a gravy consistency.

For the chicken breast, I seasoned it with some oregano, salt and pepper and set up my dredging station.  After I let the chicken rest a bit, I pan fried it.

As I was plating it, it just looked kind of blah as expected.  I stood back and realized it need some color.  I pan fried an egg for two reasons: one to add some color to the dish and two, I wanted to break the egg yolk and mix it into the gravy.  Last minute I added a touch of chives for additional color.

In my opinion, I thought this turned out pretty great as far as the presentation goes.  I think my mission was accomplished.

As for the flavors, the gravy was nice and spicy, the way I like my food.  The chicken was very flavorful for being seasoned so quickly and had a nice crispy crunch to it.  The cheesy biscuit had many flavors going on.  It had a garlic and onion flavor and the basil really came out within the biscuits.  Now for the egg...I broke the egg and just let it ooze into gravy.  It was so delicious!