STICKY HOT WINGS: Frugal, skinnier, easy-peasy, make-ahead, main, snack

Perfect frugal food: packed with flavour, satisfying and full of protein

Spicy Hot Wings for ravenous, wallet-conscious students & sport fans: 
'They sit very nicely; full-flavoured & nicely charcoaled.  Well cooked; i'm not a fan of pink chicken!'  20+ Fijian Australian
 

This recipe is full-blown adult fare; the heat won't blow your head off but could bring tears to the eyes of children.  The Boozy Peach Dipping Sauce isn't very child-friendly either.  A kids' version of the hot wings is below; the boozy peach dipping sauce also has a kid's version.   

Whether served as as a sports snack or as light supper with baked potato or rice and salad, these sticky, spicy wings will become a hot favourite.   

Cost: £3
Makes: 20 pieces

Ingred:
    10-12 chicken wings, separated into winglet & minidrums     

Sauce   
   1/2 cup home-made, low-sugar, no preservative ketchup or a spicy low-sugar supermarket blend*
   small clove garlic, grated or minced
   1/2-1 tbsp dark brown sugar
   1 tbsp Dijon mustard
   1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
   1/2 tbsp reduced-salt soy sauce
   1/2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
   1 tsp smoked paprika
   1 small-med dried chipotle pepper, reconstituted in water and finely minced (67 uses Waitrose Cooks' Ingredients) or 1 tsp chipotle seasoning (opt)
   1 tsp chilli flakes, to taste
   3-4 dashes tobasco sauce, to taste
   1 generous tbsp lime or lemon juice
   pepper & salt
   1-2 tbsp brandy or beer (opt)

   Boozy Peach Dipping Sauce (opt)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 400f/200c/180 fan
2. Add a baking rack to a foil-lined oven tray which is not too deep; lay out winglets and mini-drums  leaving a ittle space in between 
3. Bake 20-25 mins until fat is being released & skin is crisping
4. Meanwhile, put the sauce ingredients in a medium bowl and blitz with stick or bowl blender until smooth; taste, add pepper & salt; you may wish to add more sweetness or heat
5. Set aside about 1/4 of the sauce for the table
6. When the wings have baked 25 mins, take them out of the oven and put them into the sauce, coating them liberally
7. Put them back in the oven; cook a further 20-30 mins, turning at least once, until beginning to blacken 
8. (If you're planning to use the Barbie, start them off in the oven as in step 6, then cook a further 20 mins on a med-hot grill, turning at least once.  Use the extra sauce for brushing.) 
9. Serve with Peach Dipping Sauce

Kids' Version

• sharply reduce or get rid of the chipotle, chilli, tabasco & beer, and reduce mustard by half
• or try BBQ Chicken Wings
• in both cases, wings should be well done but not starting to blacken 

*Heinz low-sugar ketchup is actually very good

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This recipe has been developed by B  Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.