'I'M ON HOLIDAY, TOO' BBQ CHICKEN WINGS. Frugal, Lower-fat, Easy-Peasy

For cooks wanting to enjoy the holiday, too...

BBQ Chicken Wings, with store cupboard ingredients, Lower-fat

These gorgeous wings are a godsend on holiday - simple, appealing, tasty and very child-friendly.  Moreover, they don't require anything exotic; all the ingredients should be available at any supermarket or village shop.  

An oven/roaster or BBQ is necessary; potato or sweet potato wedges can be cooked at the same time.  Then all that's needed is a couple of bowls with tomato wedges lightly oiled and salted and cucumber sticks. It's a quick, nutritious happy-making hot meal.

Or for picnics, make the wings in advance and pack them along with containers of tomatoes and cucumber sticks and Carnival Potato Salad.

Cost: £3.50
Serves: 4

Ingred:
   1 kilo chicken wings (the best you can afford)
   1 cup spicy ketchup, pref low-sugar
   2-3 tbsp soft brown sugar
   2 tbsp soy sauce
   2 cloves garlic, grated
   2 inch piece ginger grated or 2/3 tsp dried ginger
   zest of one lemon or orange
   chilli flakes (opt)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to moderate 180c, 350f, gas 5
2. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper; set wings on rack in tray
3. Bake for 25 minutes
4. In the meantime, mix ketchup, sugar, soy, garlic, ginger & zest and chilli flakes if using; set 1/2 of the total aside
5. After 25 minutes, brush the wings liberally with sauce
6. Repeat step 5 every 7 minutes until wings are crisp and beautifully coloured - probably another 20-25 mins.
7. Serve with extra sauce

Tip:

• If you can't find wings, get a whole chicken and spatchcock it: remove the backbone by holding the bird firmly on its rump and cutting down with a sharp knife close to the right of the backbone and to the left;  the bird can then be flattened and the cooking speeded up.  Cutting the chicken into portions will also save cooking time.  Save the backbone for stock
• A cooling dipping sauce is a 2-1 mix of strained yoghurt and mayonnaise with finely sliced spriing onions or chives
• If you like this, you will also like Double-Duty Sweet & Sour Chicken Wings and Chicken Stock

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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.