buffalo wings – bFeedme

This is an awesome appetizer that is best eaten with beer. It is also a comfort food that I crave for once in a while. The blue cheese dip and the celery sticks balances out the spiciness.

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

20 pieces chicken wings

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1/2 cup hot sauce

Oil for frying (vegetable, canola, peanut)

8 ounces sour cream

1/2 cup mayonnaise

2 ounces crumbled blue cheese

1 clove minced garlic

In a blender, combine the sour cream, mayonnaise, blue cheese and garlic. Blend until smooth and place in a bottle or container. Refrigerate up to 1 week.

Place the flour, salt, paprika, garlic powder and pepper in a shallow bowl or dish. Coat the chicken wings in the flour mixture and refrigerate it for an hour. After, coat the chicken in flour for the second time.

In a small saucepan, melt the butter and stir in the hot sauce. Keep warm.

Deep fry the chicken in oil until they are golden brown. Place them on a rack or strainer for 3 minutes to drain the excess oil. After coat the wings with butter and hot sauce mixture. Transfer the chicken on a plate and serve with blue cheese and celery sticks.

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: BBQ Chicken Wings from Crestock Creative Images

With Superbowl Sunday coming up, it’s the perfect time to show you one of my favorite recipes. This is the one I pull out when my husband’s friends are coming over. Because they’re chicken wings, they’re tasty tasty tasty- and because they’re baked, not fried, you don’t have to feel so bad about polishing off so many of them.

You’ll want to serve these with a bowl or two of some good blue cheese or ranch dressing- preferably homemade, but the stuff from the bottle is just fine. I’ve served these with fat-free ranch dressing, and no one was the wiser. Including the husband, who is decidedly anti-anything fat-free.

For these, I use our homemade hot sauce, but feel free to use Frank’s Red Hot or something similar. Like Sriracha. These are awesome with Sriracha.

Baked Wings

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
chicken wings- around 2 dozen
1/2 cup melted salted butter
hot sauce (1/2 cup if using something like Frank’s Red Hot, or around 5 tablespoons Sriracha or Tabasco)

Line a cookie sheet with foil, and spray with some Pam or Crisco spray. In a large freezer bag, combine flour, cayenne, garlic powder and salt. Mix well. Add the chicken wings, which you’ve patted dry, seal, and shake until well coated.

Transfer wings to foil-lined sheet, and (this is important!) refrigerate at least an hour.

Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 400F. In a small bowl, whisk together the melted butter and hot sauce.

One by one, dip the wings into the butter/hot sauce mixture, and return to the baking sheet. Bake in the preheated oven 20 minutes, turn over and bake for another 20 to 25 minutes.