Sure Fire Zesty Buffalo Wings
Zesty buffalo wing recipe suitable for the kiddos, versatile enough for a high ranking Scoville scale heat factor, or to turn into a honey mustard master piece.
Ingredients
- 4 lbs chicken wings and drumettes
- 1 cup your favorite hot sauce
- 2/3 cup Italian dressing
- 3/4 stick butter (6 Tbsp)
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
- Coat skillet with olive oil and saute chicken wings and drumettes to a golden brown, over medium to medium high heat. Make sure chicken is browned in single layers by cooking in individual batches.
- Spray 9x11 baking sheet with oil and place browned chicken pieces in, in a single layer, and set aside.
- Add the butter, hot sauce, lemon juice, Italian dressing, salt, garlic and onion powder into a bowl and heat in the microwave to melt the butter.
- Once butter is melted, whisk together and pour over the browned chicken wings and drumettes. Use a spoon, to spoon sauce over chicken pieces, where pouring missed.
- Place chicken in the preheated oven and bake for two hours. The longer you bake, I normally turn my oven off at this point and leave the wings to sit in the over while the chicken and the oven cool down.
- Remove the chicken from the oven. Give the chicken pieces a turn or two, just to recoat. The sauce will be a little thicker and better cling to the chicken.
- Feel free to plate the chicken wings and drumettes, and drizzle with the sauce left behind in the pan for a pretty presentation.
Notes
Cooking these wings "low and slow" makes them nice and tender, without causing your meat to be dry.
One thought is to mix different hot sauces. I usually mix 1/2 cup each, of two of our favorite hot sauce brands.