It was one of those days. I had just got home from work and the kids were bouncing off the walls the house was a mess and the wife informs me she has a meeting in town and I will be in charge of dinner. I was planning on cooking some sticky chicken from a recipe that I had just got from a friend anyway so it really wasn’t that big of a deal except the chicken wings weren’t thawed all the way. So I put them in a very large pot with some water and went to see what the kids were destroying. I was thinking we could maybe whip the house into shape while the wings were thawing.
Well my good intentions soon were replaced with reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond and Hannah Montana. Needless to say we didn’t get a lot done and next thing I know the wings are thawed and it’s after 7:00 and being a school night I had to hurry.
I cut up the wings into little sections and then I discovered I was missing one key ingredient for the sticky chicken. After a quick panic attack I decided I would just give the kids cereal.
What was I going to do with all those wings? I went ahead and fired up the deep fryer and whipped some super tasty hot wing/barbecue/sticky chicken wings sauce up.
I combined the sticky chicken recipe with the hot wing recipe and my barbecue sauce recipe and boy was it good. Just when I was thinking my barbecue sauce couldn’t get any better I pull this one out of my hat. It just goes to show you there is always room for improvement. Who knew?
It’s a funny thing about hot wings the boys really love them and graded the wings out with A plusses and the girls liked them pretty well and graded them B+ to a generous A-. I think it has to do with the sticky sauce that gets all over the place. The boys tear into the wings with wild abandon letting the sauce fly where it may and the girls are more inclined to slow down and use napkins and such which takes the edge off the whole experience. You can’t fully enjoy hot wings or ribs, or anything really, if you are inhibited. It’s like dancing. You are not going to enjoy dancing unless you let yourself go. Turn down the lights and turn up the music.
To make my delectable hot wings cut the wings into sections saving the end pieces for stock. pour 36 ounces of ketchup into a sauce pan on top of the stove add 3/4 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup molasses, 1/2 cup apple vinegar, one bottle of Frank’s (it has to be Frank’s for that unique hot wing flavor). A few dashes of Tabasco sauce to taste, 1 tsp onion powder, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, a few dashes of Worcestershire sauce, a few dashes of soy sauce, 1 tsp of salt 1 teaspoon of black pepper. Simmer ingredients on top of the stove for about twenty minutes or more. The longer you simmer the thicker and richer the sauce becomes.
Dip the wing sections into seasoned flour. I just use a little salt. The barbecue sauce has all the necessary flavor. Deep fry wings for about 7 minutes. Pull the wings from the fryer and dip them in the cooked barbecued sauce so as to coat them completely. Allow to set for a minute or two before serving.
I was able to coat about ten pounds of wings with this recipe. Now I know that may sound like a lot, but when it comes to hot wings you can’t hardly cook too many.
Boy did they turn out good. The wings were crispy from the deep frying and the sauce was simply outstanding. I had one of my older girls whip up some delicious biscuits while I was cooking the wings and seeing how it was so late and all that’s all we had for dinner, just wings and biscuits. Not a vegetable in sight.
My wife gets home from her meeting and the house was actually messier than when she left and the kitchen was a now a disaster as well but I just slid a plate full of my wings in front of her with a couple of hot biscuits and all was well.