Looking for Baked Buffalo Wing Recipes

[MidTN]

Looking for a good recipe to bake wings. If anybody has one to share I would appreciate.

 

[TAFKAP]

We use the Alton Brown (of Food Network fame) method. They come out absolutely great.

You will need a LARGE soup pot and some of those steamer baskets, as well as a good amount of time....but the recipe is well worth all the effort.

1) Buy whole wings, and split them with a paring knife into drummies & wing sections.

2) Fill the bottom of your pot with water, but just enough that it doesn't touch the bottom of your steamer basket.

3) Steam your wings for about 5 minutes.

4) Line a cookie sheet with paper towels, and cover with a metal rack. Lay out your now steamed wings on the rack and refrigerate for at least an hour. I usually steam all my wings the night before I'm going to cook them. That way, they have all night to dry out in the fridge.

5) Bake the wings in a 450 degree oven for about 20 minutes. If you're using the same setup in the oven as you did in the fridge, DON'T FORGET TO REMOVE YOUR PAPER TOWEL LINER. Remove, flip the wings, and bake for another 20 minutes.



By steaming the wings, you partially cook them while leaching out some of the grease. Letting them dry in the fridge keeps them from getting soggy, and when you bake them, they come out better than if they were fried.

 

[TAFKAP]

Part 1 of the Good Eats episode I got this cooking method from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HX6q61JWR4

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LDgcKb7UVY

 

[MidTN]

TAFKAP

Thanks for the information. After watching the two links, I'm going to try Alton Brown's method.

 

[Trapper John]

Alton's method is excellent. Those wings have enough fat on them they basically fry themselves. I play around with the sauce they're coated in but I always use his steam/bake method.

 

[TrailWatcher]

If ya have a Grill just marinade them in Franks Hot sauce overnite and them grill them up until the get sticky you will never go back. For fried wings just wash them and in a large bowl mix 1/2 regular flour and 1/2 whole wheat flour and place the wings in the dry mix in the frig for at least 1 hour and then fry. The sauce is 1 stick butter and 1 bottle of Franks hot sauce place in a sauce pan until butter is melted and then reduce heat. Then add depending on your degree of heat tolorance 1/2 tablespoon of creamy Italian dressing the more you add the hotter the wings will be. Mix this sauce over the wings and enjoy!!

 

[basset]

Tried the Alton Brown method last night, they were cooked just right and a good texture... made the Mrs. some with regular commercial bbq sauce and she really liked them, I was not so impressed with the AB wing sauce recipe. Doubled the amount of hot sauce it called for and still had to put more on them when they got to the table - used Crystal (weaker, more vinegary sauce similar to Frank's or Texas Pete) but next time I will try Tabasco or maybe Tapatio or Sriracha and we'll see how that goes. Raw wings are considerably more expensive than thighs or drumsticks around here, might give those a shot as well.

 

[TAFKAP]

Yep....wings have taken off in the past few years. And if you don't like something about A.B.'s recipes, at least you learn a good method. I've tweaked the sauces quite a bit, but that's the only way I'll cook wings ever again.

This stuff is awesome too.....

http://www.walkerswood.com/product_trad ... soning.php

Bought it from a roadside jerk-chicken stand in Jamaica, and have been ordering it online ever since.

 

[TNDeerGuy]

I bake wings all the time. Take 3/4 stick of butter, 1 cup of Crystal's Louisanna Hot Sauce (or whatever brand you prefer) and 1 TBSP of garlic powder�you can add more sauce for more heat as well. Heat everything on stove and allow it to cool. Then take 3/4 of the mixture and pour over wings that you have placed in a bowl then put in fridge for a couple of hours.

Heat oven to 350 and place wings on a rack (make sure you place something underneath it like aluminum foil to catch the grease drippings and place in oven. At 20 minutes rotate the wings and baste with the reserved marinade and place back in oven for another 20 minutes. When they come out�baste them again and serve.

You can do variations to the marinade such as soy sauce, teriyaki, honey, garlic/lemon or anything else you can think of.

 

[TAFKAP]

(make sure you place something underneath it like aluminum foil to catch the grease drippings and place in oven.

This is KEY!