Like they say, ain't no thang like a chicken wang. Er, rather chicken wing.
I realize that we're posting about main dishes all day today for Slashfood's Super Bowl Week, and traditionally, chicken wings are eaten as appetizers. However, if you eat two dozen chicken wings the way I do with a small bowl of rice on the side, you can pretty much consider these chicken wings a main course.
These wings are based on a recipe that I first manipulated out of a college roommate, who got it from her friend's mother. I took lecture notes, my roommate gave me the recipe. Now, it's a very loose set of instructions, since I first got it form a Korean mom, and there's no such thing as "recipes" for Korean moms. There is always room for customization, which I had to do last night because my guests are on a low-spice diet. I know. Could there be anything worse than a low-spice diet?
Sarah's Sticky Chicken Wings
Start the sticky sauce: Heat 2-3 Tbsp canola oil in a frying pan with 1-2 dried red chilies, 2-3 smashed garlic cloves, and slices from 1" piece of fresh ginger. Saute for about five minutes to flavor the oil, then remove the chilies, garlic and ginger.
To the frying pan, add: 1 Tbsp rice wine vinegar, ¼ c. soy sauce, ½ c. brown sugar, and 2 Tbsp corn syrup. Stir to dissolve the sugar, bring to a boil, then turn heat off to let sauce thicken.
Fry the wings: Cut 3 lbs chicken wings into the two sections (the tiny drumstick and the flat wing). Discard the wing tips. Wash the wings, pat dry, and pick off any "hairs." Dredge wings in about ½ c. corn starch that has been seasoned with salt and pepper. Make sure to tap off as much excess corn starch you can.
Heat deep frying oil. Deep fry coated chicken wings for about 7-8 minutes. Drain on paper towels.
Toss warm chicken wings with thickened sauce. Sprinkle with roasted sesame seeds and chopped scallions.
If these don't do it for you, try some of these other chicken wings:
Ain't no thing like a chicken wing - Buffalo, Asian spice, and Italian Herb
Whiskey Hot Wings with Blue Cheese Dip
Martha Stewart's Buffalo Chicken Strips with Blue Cheese Salad
Male Bonding Buffalo Wings
1-29-2008 @7:17PM Greyhoundgrrl said... The wings look delicious, but I can't get my head around the "low-spice diet" thing. What's wrong with spices? Most of them have little or no calories, they make things tasty, they have neither fat nor carbs-- why pick on the poor spices?
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1-30-2008 @7:27AM Gobo said... I've got friends and siblings with "no-spice" rules when they eat: absolutely no spiciness or heat. I know one person who won't even eat green bell peppers because they consider them "too spicy", which is insane.
Why? I guess some people never ate spicy food as kids and never developed any tolerance for it; my sister once told me, "food shouldn't hurt!" and to this day won't eat anything even mildly spiced.
1-30-2008 @2:30AM sarah said... it's not actually a diet diet. it's just a way of saying that they are trying not to eat foods that are tooooo spicy because it can be upsetting to the digestive system.
but yeah, i don't get it either :)
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1-30-2008 @9:59AM Michele said... This is about the 3d time reading this post...I just saw the chicken wang thing. Lets just say the sip of coffee that was in my mouth, is now on my desk. But as for the lo-spice thing, I have diverticulers (sp?) in my intestines. In order to keep chances of inflamation down, I am not supposed to consume anything with seeds or spices. Yea...that did not last long for me. I have to live with my concequences sometimes though. ;)
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