CHICKEN WINGSSSSFirst attempt (
recipe):
At this point I did not know that true chicken wings were wings cut in half, and was confused as to why my drumsticks were so much bigger than regular restaurant-ass drumsticks. I fixed that with my second attempt.
Have you heard of the legendary mouthgasm? Those chicken wings will make it a reality. They're based off
this recipe, but I've improved it. Also I didn't have any cayenne powder so I replaced that with chili powder. I'm pretty sure that works.
This recipe is for a small batch. I definitely recommend going larger if you're confident in your ability to not fuck up. I know I will next time.
Ingredients (wings and rub):- 6 chicken wings - About 1.8 lbs. Or 12 mini-drumsticks/two-bone-bits if you cut 'em in half already.
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp pepper
- 1/3 tsp sugar
- 1/3 tsp paprika
- 1/3 tsp chili powder
Ingedients (sauce):- 2/3 cup smokey barbecue sauce
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1.5 tbsp ketchup
- 2 tbsp hot sauce
- 2 2/3 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
If you already have an appropriately sweet barbecue sauce, you can probably replace the BBQ and honey, and maybe the ketchup too.
Instructions:Preheat your oven to 400F. Stir all rub ingredients besides the chicken wings together in a sufficiently large bowl. You should get some ugly looking stuff with the consistency of wet sand. Then add the chicken wings, stirring to the best of your ability. It's not easy to stir a bowl of chicken wings, so nobody will judge you if the rub isn't perfectly even.
Put some aluminum foil down on a pan, or just use the pan if you're brave and like cleaning chicken juice and burned barbecue sauce off metal. Spray some Pam down, stick the wings in, and cook for 40 minutes, turning them over at 20 minutes.
Sauce time! Mix all that shit together. It'll go faster if you put the butter in first and let it melt by itself. I didn't remember that, unfortunately. The sauce needs to be simmering when your wings' 40 minutes are up, so I started shortly after turning them.
Once you're done cooking the wings, dip them in the sauce and put them back on the pan. Cook them for another 5 minutes, then remove, serve, and experience chickenlightenment.