Guess what, good people!? Football season is upon us, and my guys couldn’t be more excited. While I do love watching my kids play and cheering for my favorite team, really I’m just here for the food and the party.
Can you blame me, though? I love getting together with my family and friends, the playful banter that comes with fans of rival teams, and all of the awesome and amazing food that we love to serve during football season. Now, I’ve shared plenty of football recipes for game day get togethers like Potato Skins, a “Super” Spinach Bowl, 7 layer dip, BBQ Baked Beans, and Pulled Pork – I’ve also shared a football themed birthday party and some ideas for game day parties.
Ok, hold on.. can you tell there’s a lot of boys and men that into sports around here?
Anyway, one thing I realized I was missing was some wings! Seriously? This is a MUST-HAVE during football season. It’s like the unofficial signature food, so I must share some recipes with you. You know, to help you out.
So my friend Mandi at Chewsy Lovers and I got together and decided we’d share some wing recipes every Wednesday (aka #WingItWednesday) with you during the month of September. Now Mandi is the BBQ and Wing Queen! We’ll be showing you how chicks can wing it. (see what we did there?) If you have some wing recipes or photos, be sure to tag us with them on Twitter and Instagram by using the hashtag #ChicksWingIt! Show how we can get down too!
Crispy Baked Buffalo Wings
For today’s wing recipe, I’m sharing traditional buffalo wings, except they’re BAKED! Yep, no frying here. I based my recipe on this one from Fifteen Spatula’s. They came out amazing and fall off the bone delicious. I did parboil them as directed in Joanne’s instructions, and I do believe that helps with the crispness as well as the tenderness of the meat.
Now you just have to try not to eat them all so you can share. Good luck with that!
Ingredients:
- 4 pounds chicken wings
- salt and pepper
- smoked paprika
- 8 tablespoons Frank’s Original Hot Sauce
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/8 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
Directions:
Start by heating up a large pot of water, adding about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the water.
Once the water is boiling, add the uncooked chicken wings to the water.
Preheat your oven to 450 degrees and continue to let the chicken boil for about 7-8 minutes, then remove the chicken from the water, patting it down with towels to be sure it’s dry.
Once dry, season with salt, pepper and paprika with a few dashes of each, then place on a large baking sheet covered with aluminum foil and sprayed with Original Pam.
Spread the chicken across the pan, and bake in the preheated oven for about 15 minutes. Flip each wing over and bake another 10 minutes.
While the chicken is baking, mix up the hot sauce, melted butter, Worcestershire sauce and ground cayenne pepper. Mix well.
Once the chicken is done baking, remove from oven and let cool.
Add the chicken to the bowl of sauce, and mix thoroughly until well coated with the sauce.
Place back on baking sheet and switch your oven to broil.
Put the chicken in the oven for about 3-4 minutes, just till it has a nice color to it. This bakes the sauce back into the chicken.
Yum!
Serve with ranch and celery on the side.
Enjoy!
These baked buffalo wings will be the star of your party! Crispy and tasty, it's hard to pass up seconds!
Ingredients
- 4 pounds chicken wings
- salt and pepper
- smoked paprika
- 8 tablespoons Frank's Original Hot Sauce
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1/8 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Start by heating up a large pot of water, adding about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of salt to the water.
- Once the water is boiling, add the uncooked chicken wings to the water.
- Preheat your oven to 450 degrees and continue to let the chicken boil for about 7-8 minutes, then remove the chicken from the water, patting it down with towels to be sure it's dry.
- Once dry, season with salt, pepper and paprika with a few dashes of each, then place on a large baking sheet covered with aluminum foil and sprayed with Original Pam.
- Spread the chicken across the pan, and bake in the preheated oven for about 15 minutes. Flip each wing over and bake another 10 minutes.
- While the chicken is baking, mix up the hot sauce, melted butter, Worcestershire sauce and ground cayenne pepper. Mix well.
- Once the chicken is done baking, remove from oven and let cool.
- Add the chicken to the bowl of sauce, and mix thoroughly until well coated with the sauce.
- Place back on baking sheet and switch your oven to broil.
- Put the chicken in the oven for about 3-4 minutes, just till it has a nice color to it. This bakes the sauce back into the chicken.
- Serve with ranch and celery on the side.
- Enjoy!
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What’s your favorite way to eat wings? Boneless or bone-in? Baked or Fried? How about your favorite flavor?
Stay tuned, we may just have some new favorites for you! See you next #WingItWednesday!
Wow that looks so good I will have to try it! Love you sweetie keep up the good work!
Thank you! 🙂
with football season about to start I’d love to learn to make appetizers for Danny and anyone else we have over to watch football.
Does boiling the chicken first cut down on cooking time and ensure that they’re cooked through?
It helps to boil some of the fat out of the skin so when you bake it they are crispier… works well since then you’re putting the sauce on. I love them so much!