Crusty Oven Roasted Buffalo Wings with Blue Cheese Dip and Celery

Today we have one more dish for hot lovers – Buffalo wings.

As you can figure from the name, this dish’s from Buffalo city, state New York. According to one version, for the first time, it was cooked in the Anchor Bar in 1964. But they were definitely first cooked in America.

The hostess was looking for a fast and easy-to-prepare snack, she could offer her clients. She got the idea to serve battered chicken wings (speaking of which, earlier they were used only for broth) in the hot sauce based on cayenne pepper. So, considering how popular these hot crusty wings are to this very day – she’s nailed it.

As I’ve said before, the original recipe includes battering and deep frying, but we’ll do it another way and bake them instead. Meanwhile, we’ll try to keep them originally crusty.

Also, I want to add a few words about a sauce. In most recipes as a sauce is used Frank’s RedHot, but it can be challenging to find it. In case you couldn’t find it, replace with Thai Sriracha and add 1 extra tbsp of sugar. If you couldn’t find it either, just use any other vinegar-based hot sauce.

⏱ Cooking time — 1 hour 20 minutes overall. Includes 20 minutes of preparation and cooking + 60 minutes unattended.

🔪 Ingredients

For 7 servings:

For wings:

• 2 kg (4,5 lb) of chicken wings
• 2 tbsp. baking powder
• ¾ tsp salt
• 4 tbsp. butter
• 100 ml (7 tbsp.) vinegar-based hot sauce (Frank’s RedHot/Sriracha)
• 1 tbsp. sugar + to taste, depending which sauce you’re using
• ¼ tsp. salt

Blue cheese dip sauce:

• 50 g (1,8 oz) blue cheese
• 100 g (3,5 oz) sour cream
• 50 g (1,8 oz) mayonnaise
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1-3 tbsp. milk
• 2 tbsp. lemon juice
• Salt pepper

Also:

• A few stalks of celery

🥣 Directions

STEP 1. PREPARE THE WINGS AND DRY THEM.

Firstly, warm up the oven to 120 degrees. Bottom-top mode.

You could buy chicken wings 2 kg (4,5 lb) with 2 or 3 phalanxes. If there’s 3 of them, cut off the smallest one and put aside. You can use it, for example, when cooking broth, but in this recipe, you don’t need it.

On two phalanx wings find the joint and with a rapid move, cut in half.

When all the wings are ready, dry them. You can do it in 2 ways: 1) place on the grate (but not close together, space is needed for good air circulation) and put to the fridge overnight 2) dry using paper towels.

I chose the second option.

Dry wings place into the bag.

Mix ¾ tsp of salt and 2 tbsp of baking powder in the separate bowl. Add this mix to the wings, close the bag and finely shake it, in order to spread evenly.

Put the wings on the baking sheet. You can cover with parchment or a foil in order to wash it easier later.

Put the baking sheet into the oven on the very bottom and leave for 30 minutes.

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STEP 2. COOK THE SAUCES, CUT THE CELERY

Blue cheese dip sauce for a start.

In the deep bowl mix 100 g (3,5 oz) of cream and 50 g (1,8 oz) of mayonnaise, chop 50 g (1,8 oz) of blue cheese, finely chop and squeeze using a garlic press 1 clove of garlic, add 2 tbsp. of lemon juice (about ¼ of a lemon), ½ tsp. of salt and black pepper to taste. Mix, depending on how thick you want it to be, add 1-3 tbsp. of milk.

For wings sauce mix 4 tbsp. of unsalted butter (melt beforehand), 100 ml (7 tbsp.) of hot sauce, 1 tbsp. of sugar and ¼ tbsp. of salt and finely mix again. If you’re using Sriracha increase the amount of sugar to 2 tbsp, in other cases – taste. The sauce should be hot-sour-sweet.

Wash the celery and slice per serving as you like the most. I sliced it longwise and then cut it into 8 cm pieces.

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STEP 3. COOK THE WINGS AND SERVE

In 30 minutes increase the temperature to 220 degrees and replace the baking sheet on the second top level. Cook for 40-50 minutes, when half of the time passes turn over the baking sheet on 180 degrees in order to bake evenly.

Check when ready relying on the wing color, they should be golden and extra crispy.

When the wings are ready, put them on the serving plate, add a hot sauce, mix and serve with sliced celery and blue cheese sauce. And yeah, don’t forget about a cold beer, that’s an almost indispensable complement to this dish.

Here’s how you should eat it: take the wing, bite, scream ‘Whoo!’ because of the fire in your mouth, snack with celery dipped in the Blue cheese sauce beforehand, take a sip of beer and feel that you’re much better now, repeat the process until the plate with wings is empty.

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