Fall is upon us and football is here! Now it is time to break out the beer and make these Easy Buffalo Chicken Wings! These wings are made with a super easy spicy and tangy buffalo wing sauce made with butter, hot sauce, and seasonings and spices. Your guests will love these wings and beg for more!
You guys know me, I am a huge football fan. I mean, I look forward to the Fall season all year long. It is my absolute favorite season. Let’s see there are the boots, the sweaters, Halloween, Thanksgiving, but more important football! And when there is football, there is food, folks, and fun and those are my favorite ‘f’ words.
Tips for making Crispy Chicken Buffalo Wings
Making this chicken wing recipe is quite simple. Sure, you can bake or air fry these chicken wings if you prefer, but in this case, they are deep-fried with the skin only. That’s right, no flour is required for this recipe. This makes for a crispier chicken wing. The recommendation to making these wings crispy are as follows:
Pat Dry: The less moisture there is in the skin, the crispier the skin will be.
Sit out at room temperature: When you place cold chicken in the hot oil, it makes the temperature of the oil cooler, which means the oil has to get hotter again while the chicken is cooking It is best that the chicken is not super cold so when it hits the hot oil, it will begin to crisp up right away.
Use a little baking powder: Much like my AIr Fry Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings recipe, although these wings are not made in an air fryer, adding the baking powder to the skin of these wings will help with the crispiness.
My perfect smorgasbord of football-related food are these Easy Buffalo Chicken Wings, Loaded Baked Potato Skins, Taco Dip, and Fluffernutter Brownies with an icy cold Angry Orchard ( that is my jam)! All of that or go to B-Dubs, which isn’t a bad alternative. But these crispy buffalo chicken wings are the centerpiece to any football party menu.
How to make Easy Buffalo Chicken Wings
So I have shown you guys how to make Homemade Fried Chicken. That process consists of me dipping the chicken into some flour and an egg mixture for some extra crispiness. For this recipe, we’re not going to do that. In fact, we are not going to put any coating on the chicken wings at all. We are going to fry them as is. Yep! You don’t need that coating for this recipe. Simply season with just a little salt and pepper. Yep, we’re not going to add a bunch of seasonings to the chicken wings because we don’t want the flavor to interfere with the Buffalo Chicken Wings Sauce, which is loaded with flavor.
We are going to fry the chicken and make the sauce which consists of some hot sauce, butter, and a bunch of spices. I’m telling you making these crispy buffalo wings is easy! In fact, you can make this sauce if you want by itself. I had enough from this recipe where I was able to preserve a small amount of the homemade Buffalo Sauce in a Mason Jar. Serve these appetizer wings on a serving platter along with celery sticks, carrot sticks, blue cheese dressing, and ranch dressing for the complete wing experience.
My husband who I refer to as the Buffalo Chicken Wing connoisseur thought these wings were “FYA”! You will love them too!
Commonly Asked Questions
For this recipe, I fried them, but you can definitely bake them in the oven or use an air fryer if you want.
Trying my recommendations for making crispy wings should help with this. The biggest thing is not frying cold chicken and making sure the skin is dry.
In my experience, yes. Especially when you are not using flour.
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Easy Buffalo Chicken Wings
- Total Time: 1 hour 35 mins
- Yield: 24 1x
Description
These Easy Buffalo Chicken Wings are the perfect centerpiece appetizer for game day! Serve alongside with carrots, celery, and ranch or bleu cheese dressing.
Ingredients
- 3 lbs. Party Chicken Wings
- 1/2 tsp. Kosher Salt
- 1/2 tsp. Black pepper
- 1 tbsp. Baking powder
- 1 1/4 c. hot sauce
- 1/4 tsp. Garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp. Onion powder
- 1/4 tsp. Smoked paprika, heaping teaspoon
- 1 tsp. Apple cider vinegar
- 1 1/2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- Garnish: carrots, celery, ranch, bleu cheese
Instructions
- Begin to heat oil in a deep fryer to 375 Degrees.
- In a small saucepan on low to medium heat, add the hot sauce and spices to the pot (garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, and vinegar) and whisk together. The hot sauce mixture should be steaming, not boiling.
- Begin to add the cold butter and whisk after every 4 tablespoons. Whisk until the butter and sauce have combined. Allow to cool and you can pour in a mason jar with a lid and shake to keep the sauce from breaking.
- Place the party chicken wings in a large bowl. Add the salt, pepper, and baking powder and mix through the wings. It isn’t going to seem like a lot of seasoning but trust me it’s plenty. Allow the chicken wings to air dry on a wire rack lined with paper towels for, at least, 30 minutes.
- Once the deep fryer has reached its temperature, add 5-7 chicken wings at a time to the deep fryer and allow it to cook for 10 minutes. When the wings start to make a crackling noise, that is when it is time to take them out. They should be crispy.
- Immediately add them to a large mixing bowl pour some of the sauce on the wings and toss evenly. Place the wings on a cooling rack until ready to serve. Feel free to toss again if desired.
- Serve with celery, carrots, ranch, and/or bleu cheese.
- Prep Time: 35 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Appetiser
- Method: Fry
- Cuisine: American
Lovely platter for a get together or a kitty party. Flavorful and super delicious appetizer. My family to love it.
Wow! These look super juicy and delicious! It doesn’t seem that hard to do this at home either. thanks
Buffalo Chicken Wings is one of my husband’s favorite dishes and I am pretty sure that this one is delicious. I will def make it for my husband, thank you!
Love me some crispy and juicy chicken wings! The perfect meal with a game or a movie! Yum!
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How tempting! The wings in the pictures look so good! I definitely need to try this out! Thanks for sharing!
These wings look positively delicious! Love your photos, too – pinning to make soon!
The color on those wings is gorgeous. You’ve got my mouth watering and when I showed my Hubby the photo he said that those were the wings he wanted on game day. Thank you for the recipe — I know they’ll be fantastic.
Loved them! I had a friend visiting- all I received was compliments! Making these again!
Buffalo wings are my favorite! This recipe is spot on!!!
So easy and delightful. We loved the flavors in it and was a complete hit.