These healthified chicken wings are perfect for your next party–or a Saturday night in. You’ll never bust out the fryer again!
Ain’t no thang but a chicken wang. Gotta love old school Outkast. My taste is music is so sporatic, I will admit that. I’ll also admit that I’m not a huge fan of chicken with bones. But there’s something irresistible about a good, crispy chicken wing. The hotter the better, too!
These wings are allllmost guilt free. I mean, compared to deep fried wings they’re not too shabby. You still get the crispy skin AND however much heat you prefer. This oven baked method can be used for larger pieces of fried chicken too!
The key to super crispy wings is using a cooling rack on top of your cookie sheet so the heat gets around the entire piece of chicken. I like keeping the wings their larger size, just clipping the pointy tips off. Some wings you’ll buy will have the drums and the wing parts already separate. Any variety will work!
As far as seasoning goes, these have a simple grill spice–21 Seasoning Salute from Trader Joe’s is my favorite! You can use Cajun, Asian, BBQ or whatever you prefer for a dry rub. As the wings bake, the spice will give them a great flavor. Afterwards, you can toss in traditional buffalo sauce or whatever you please. Basically, these are SO versatile.
- 2-3 pounds Chicken Wings
- 3 Tablespoons Grill Spice (such as 21 Seasoning Salute)
- 2 Tablespoons baking powder
- 4 Tablespoons Butter
- 1/2 cup hot sauce , such as Franks
- 1/3 cup Litehouse blue cheese crumbles
- Litehouse Blue Cheese Dressing
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Preheat oven to 425º
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Pat chicken wings dry with a paper towel.
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In a plastic bag, add baking powder and 1 tablespoon of the grill spice. In two batches, shake wings in the mixture.
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Line a cookie sheet with a cooling rack. Line chicken in rows and sprinkle with additional spices. It might take two pans to fit all of the wings.
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Bake 40-45 minutes until golden and crispy.
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Serve with buffalo dipping sauce and blue cheese dressing.
Since I adore the Litehouse freeze dried line spices AND their dressings so much, I thought I would do a giveaway! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? These spices are amazing for any cooking needs. They’re flash frozen at peek freshness and add a quick pop of flavor to any meal. I’m not the best at keeping fresh herbs around–these are shelf-stable and perfect!
To enter: Comment below with your favorite wing flavor or dipping sauce. Easy peasy!
You have until 11:59pm EST on Monday, March 20th to enter. I’ll use random.org to pick the winner!
I love salsa and Litehouse herbs are my favorite!!
Yes, they’re so nice to have on hand!
We LOVE spicy at our house!! I’m a sucker for Franks Buffalo or a hot dry rub! If I dip, I like to use sour cream. I know, so weird.
I totally get the sour cream dip…it would be nice a cool with the spicy wings! Totally trying!
The wings look so good! I love classic buffalo but really I’ll eat them any way I can get them. I need to try these herbs – I always throw away more than half the herbs if I buy fresh and it makes me irrationally angry to buy those clamshells packs of herbs.
Yes! I always intend to use them all, but they go bad so quickly! Our store sprays the herbs with so much water, even drying them when I get home doesn’t help. They get mushy so quickly!
We love hot/mild wings in our house as well. We use Franks Hot sauce with a dab of butter! Yum!
Blue cheese dressing is the ONLY dipping sauce I could ever use ? ! I love the tanginess of the dressing with the heat of the wings! Yum!
I,like hot and spicy wings dipped in a ranch sauce. I am not particular though. I will eat any flavor of wings dipped in any kind of sauce!!
I love a sweet dry rub on my chicken wings, and always with blue cheese dressing. Thanks for the chance!
Ranch is my favorite dipping sauce.
I love a Sweet Chili sauce!! YUMMMMMMMMMMMMM! But honestly, my favorite option is a buffet full of flavors and dips to taste them all!
I love all flavors of wings, but my favorite are the Thai Peanut ones at Applebee’s.
We like a mild wing sauce and a ranch dipping sauce.
I’ve been dying to try these herbs.
I need to try wings with my kids, they have never had them. I’m a Buffalo fan, but I’ll eat them any way as long as they aren’t dry.
I used random.org to pick the winner (between 1 and 13) and you were drawn! Wooohoo! Check your email for a message from me 🙂
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My favorite dipping sauce is honey mustard
Wow these look incredible and love the photos! I normally like using just a ranch dipping sauce, but I am very interested in trying them with Blue Cheese dressing ! Thanks for sharing this!
Can’t go wrong with ranch! Have you tried the Litehouse Jalapeno Ranch? It’s sooo delish! Let me know if you try the wings 🙂