If you love wings, this recipe will make you fly
Chicken wings are delicious and wing nights are fun and cheap, but not exactly healthy. Enter oven-baked chicken wings.
Deep-frying wings can mean losing that great chicken flavour in a whole lot of grease. As luck would have it, deep-frying is the very thing that prevents so many of us from making chicken wings at home.
Baking chicken wings instead of deep-frying them is the perfect solution. Oven-baked wings get crispy, are super easy to make, and retain that chicken flavour we love.
Next time you’re craving wings, give these a try; they might just leave you thinking, “Ain’t no thing like these chicken wings!”
Ingredients
- 1 big pack of chicken wings (split or unsplit; you can get them already seasoned or plain)
- Drizzle of olive oil
- Salt, to taste
- Pepper, to taste
- Hot sauce or BBQ sauce of your choice, optional
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil and drizzle with olive oil in two or three rows.
- Place the chicken wings over the oil in three rows if split and in two rows if unsplit. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes and then flip the wings. If the wings are a bit stuck, just wait a couple of minutes and then use a spatula and tongs to flip them.
- Return flipped wings to the oven for 10 to 15 minutes. Since oven temperatures vary, check a wing by cutting into it and making sure there is no pink before removing from oven.
- Remove wings from oven and transfer to a large bowl.
- Toss in your favourite BBQ or hot sauce or leave plain.
- Enjoy with your favourite beverage and maybe some baby carrots and celery sticks on the side.
Photos by Mirali Almaula/The Ontarion.