FineExampl's Sneaky, Sweet & Smokey Wings

[FineExampl]

Hi kids. I thought i'd share a recipe i'm trying out tonight that i came up with myself and i think it'll prove to be quite delectable.

LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: 2 out of 5
Time: 20-30 minutes

I base this recipe on my old recipe for wings + a mix of Frank's Red Hot and your choice of butter-like product (we use Soy Garden spread because it's vegan and dairy free so as not to hurt any lactards).

First, find some good chicken wings. Steph and I have bought and tried plain chicken wings from all the supermarkets in our area, but NONE come close to the wings sold at Whole Foods Market. For whatever reason, they taste and cook up better. They also have more meat per wing! (Bonus!!) Finely chop up one big hot pepper of your choice (jalapeno or banana or whatever you like. I like to use a few habanero peppers.) and sprinkle it on your wings. Make sure the wings are evenly spaced or they won't crisp up right. Now, pop em in the oven on 375*-400* depending on your oven. Let them cook. It's sauce time!

Take about half cup of your "butter" or more depending how much you feel you need. Zap it in the microwave until it's melted, but not cooking. Next, empty the contens of ONE BOTTLE (the smaller size) of the Blair's Jalapeno Death Sauce (or Jalapeno Tabasco sauce if you can't find Blair's). This is the mild Blair's sauce! Now, add just a few dashes of the Blair's After Death Sauce as it's not for the faint of heart(or red Tabasco if you like), but not too much as it will spoil the color and make the wings discolored. We don't want red wings here! Next add a nice big spoonful of honey and one of extra virgin olive oil. Follow that up with salt, pepper, and crushed thyme to your own taste preference. Finally, add some liquid smoke. GO EASY with this stuff! It may be strong and you don't want to eat bongwater buffalo wings, cuz that's just nasty. Taste as you go. When you start coughing, yer all set and it's hot enough. Now, mix this up with a wire whisk. If you don't use a whisk it won't mix up right and will separate. Get a nice emulsion going.

By this point your wings should have beeen flipped once and you should have finished a beer. Take the wings out and dunk them in your sauce and coat them real good all over. Pop em back in the oven to dry that sauce a bit and repeat the process until they look awesome. You shouldn't have much, if any, sauce when you're done.

Now, crack another beer and a plate up these badboys. The heat will sneak up on you because the smoke and sweetness mask the intensity.

Enjoy!

[PhoenixRising]

Sounds YUMMY!® I will need to make them.

[FineExampl]

Okay final judgement on these wings: AWESOME!!!

Seriously, this is an amazing recipe people. You have to try it!

[PhoenixRising]

Originally Posted by FineExampl

Okay final judgement on these wings: AWESOME!!!

Seriously, this is an amazing recipe people. You have to try it!

I WILL! OKAY! SOON! NOW I TALK LIKE JAPANESE TV HOST! BANZAI!

[FineExampl]

Banzai!!!
Oh No!! This Duck Still Arive!! Chop Chop!!

[PhoenixRising]

So I ran out, and got some wings for a LATE NIGHT SNACKY thing, and did the recipe, and mang, they are YUMMY!®

So all you campers, should try dem out.

[FineExampl]

Well that's a shiny endorsement!

[AppleScruff]

Originally Posted by FineExampl

Well that's a shiny endorsement!

i second the amazement of these wings. john is totally making them when we have our apt warming party!

[FineExampl]

Originally Posted by AppleScruff

i second the amazement of these wings. john is totally making them when we have our apt warming party!

You tell me what to do now? Since when?

But, i won't deny, i will surely make the wings for our home GTG. It'd be nice if people actually showed up this time.

/me runs to order kegerator

[PhoenixRising]

/me wish I could be there for wings and beer and hepin' folks moves in.

[CrazyJames]

Originally Posted by FineExampl

Okay final judgement on these wings: AWESOME!!!

Seriously, this is an amazing recipe people. You have to try it!

I'd have to agree with you John these wings are awesome!!

The sauce got me coughin though it mellowed out when applied to the wings, so I'll have to add a little more HEAT next time..

[FineExampl]

They look perfect man! Yes about the heat. In the beginning, it's gonna nip a little, but it HAS to be hot (IMO) in order for it to work. The sweetness and the smoke mellow out the heat and make alot of heat completely tolerable.

I wonder if the adobo from a can of chipotles would work? It'd make the color different i guess.

I have a bottle of Blair's Heat: Jalapeno Tequila hot sauce just waiting for some wings to stroll into the kitchen.

Seriously glad you liked them though. The pic is making me hungry.

[FineExampl]

Guy's i've updated my recipe a bit. I'm no longer supporting any hot sauce other than Blair's Death Sauce and all the varieties they make.

That said, i'm trying to get my recipe published on their website. I need to focus and make a recipe for anyone to follow.

[PhoenixRising]

Originally Posted by FineExampl

Guy's i've updated my recipe a bit. I'm no longer supporting any hot sauce other than Blair's Death Sauce and all the varieties they make.

That said, i'm trying to get my recipe published on their website. I need to focus and make a recipe for anyone to follow.

Where is this website?

[FineExampl]

www.extremefoods.com

[FineExampl]

I updated my recipe again. This is how i submitted it to Blair's. I hope they choose it for the site. I checked their wing recipe and mine was unlike the 2 they had posted up there. Stacy from extremefood.com said they'd consider it for the next update to the site. I guess i should keep watching.

Meat:
2-3 dozen raw chicken wings
2-4 habaneros
Sat & Pepper

Finely chop or julienne cut the habaneros, with or without seeds. Toss the wings in the chopped habaneros and bake these in the oven at 375 and prep the sauce.

Sauce:
1/3 cup Soy Garden spread (or butter or margarine if you wish)
1 5oz bottle of Jalapeno Death Sauce
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon liquid smoke
3-4 sprigs of fresh thyme
2-3 tablespoons of honey
1 pint of black & tan
Sudden Death Sauce or your favorite XXX level hot sauce (optional)

Zap the spread in the microwave until softened. Toss everything into a good size mixing bowl except the Sudden Death. Grab a wire whisk and beat the mixture vigorously until you get a nice emulsified mixture. It should look like a nice thick creamy salad dressing. Give it a taste and see if it needs any salt or black pepper. It shouldn't need much, if any. Add the Sudden Death a dash at a time. You don't want the sauce to get red or dark, hence the "sneaky" in the name. Get your sauce nice and fiery hot. Ma

Next, drink the black&tan. By the time you finish, the wings should be cooked through. Grab your tongs and dunk each wing in the sauce and place them back in the oven at 400 degrees. When the sauce dries on the wings, dunk them again and repeat this until the sauce is totally baked into the now well done wings. The finished wings should look plain in appearance as if there is nothing on them but some thyme (adding to the sneaky factor). The last coating of sauce you can leave wet if you wish. Have these with any dipping sauce you wish, or eat them as-is. I find that a dark beer and a green salad teams up well with them. The smoke and the honey balance the heat on these and make them extremely flavorful. The sweetness allows twice as much heat to be added which is nice.

This recipe has the added bonus of being lactose free (for you lactards out there) with the use of the Soy Garden spread as well as being baked, not fried. If the wings are cooked well done or "cooked hard", allot of the fat will melt off into the pan. While wings are not health food, this recipe is a nice alternative to traditional hot wings.

[PhoenixRising]

Okay, this will be in the DIN. You'll see.