>> Hilah: Hey dudes!
I am Hilah, and today on Hilah Cooking I am gonna show you how to do delicious, baked,
buffalo wings.
Now, we’ve done fried wings before, and we’ve done boneless buffalo wings, but this
baked style is a little bit nicer sometimes because you don’t end up with a whole bunch
of oil to get rid of at the end, and then obviously they are a little bit lighter because
some of the fat cooks out while you’re baking them, but you still end up with crispy, spicy
wings, and that’s what really counts besides being a good person and having love in your
heart right?
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[Baked Chicken Wings]
>> Hilah: The first thing you want to get a drink of your drink before your hands get
covered in chicken.
You are gonna need some alcohol to still yourself for the gruesomeness that is to come.
So, sometimes you can find drumettes which is just like this little part of the chicken.
I think I have wine on my face, and it looks like a little, tiny chicken leg or chicken
drumsticks which is why it’s called a drumette, but my store when I went just had these whole
ones, so that’s kind of cool because now I can show you how to cut it up.
So, this little wing tip, we’re just gonna cut that right off.
As long as you have that sharp, heavy knife it shouldn’t be a problem, and these make
really great chicken stock if you want to hang on to those and boil ‘em later, and
then for here we’re just gonna cut down through the skin and almost sort of go like
parallel to the leg part or the little drumette part, and you can just cut right through that
joint, and now you’ve got this little drumstick looking piece and then this little part which
is called “the flat.”
So, we’re gonna cook both of these in today’s recipe, so just set those aside, and I’ll
do another one.
And these are really, actually really huge chicken wings, kind of surprising.
Gargantuan!
So, now I am gonna boil these.
I am gonna drop them into a pot of water over here, and this boiling is going to cook them,
but also sort of render some of the fat out from the skin, but let’s not miss an opportunity
to flavor these as long as we’re cooking them, so to the boiling water I am gonna add
some dried, red chilis, and this is gonna make a little, a little bit of spicy!
If you can’t find these, you can do just some crushed red pepper, or you could just
leave it out if you.
God, I can’t hang onto these, butterfingers!
If you just don’t want to make them too spicy, so a couple of those and then some
whole cloves of garlic, and then a little salt.
Look, I am doing it all one-handed without my chicken hand, a little salt, and I can’t
really do the pepper one-handed, but that’s okay, so I am gonna bring this to a boil,
and once it boils, I’ll turn it down, and then we’ll just simmer them for 15 minutes.
Okay, so these are all done.
I am layin’ ‘em out on my baking sheet on a rack.
If you don’t have a rack like this, you can just flip ‘em halfway through the cooking
process.
Although, the rack helps them get a little bit crisper I think, and this is just a regular
ole cookie cooling rack, and then I’ve got in this little dish just some Frank’s Red
Hot which normally I don’t tell y’all that you have to buy brand name stuff, but
traditional buffalo wing sauce is made with this, so if you can’t find it, you could
use any kind of like vinegar-based hot sauce that you like.
I think Tobasco or something like that would be okay, and then a little bit of butter.
Not quite as much butter as in a normal wing sauce usually I think it’s like one-to-one
ratio, but this is like quarter cup sauce with a tablespoon of butter, and we’re just
gonna brush these a little bit.
This is gonna help the skin get a little bit crispy, and also give them a really beautiful
color.
We are gonna toss them into some more of this later too, so don’t worry I’m not pussing
out on you here.
I am just using a little bit of sauce, and I suppose if you wanted to skip the boiling
step, you could just bake them in the oven for about an hour instead of the 30 minutes
that we’re gonna do, but either way you want to do it.
Okay, so I am just gonna put these in a very hot oven for about 30 minutes, and then you’ll
see what they look like.
They are gonna be crispy and yummy!
Promise!
Pinky swears!
While our wings are a cookin’ we could throw together a real quick little blue cheese sauce
which is just gonna be about equal parts plain yogurt, and I am using fat free, but you can
use whatever you got, mayonnaise, and if you wanted to do like a really low fat version,
you could totally just use all yogurt.
There’s no way in hell this bowl is gonna be big enough, but we shall persevere, so
get those two mixed up and kind of smooth, and then we’ll add a little bit of our blue
cheese, and if you don’t like this you can serve them with ranch or just alcohol.
Mix that together, and we do need to add a little salt and pepper in my opinion, and
then the piece de resistance, or the best part.
I am gonna put in just a little bit of lemon juice, and to me this just really brings that
blue cheese flavor out and a little bit of acidity with a nice spicy, vinegary sauce.
I just think it’s muy bon appetite!
That was too many languages in one sentence.
Okay, so that’s good, see that was easy, you don’t need to buy a blue cheese dressing.
Stick this in the fridge while our buffalo wings keep on gettin’ cooked and crispy.
Chicken wings are done dude!
I am gonna put em, look at that, very crispy, and I’ve got the rest of my sauce.
Just pour that over, and then just get your big bowl and sort of toss this around like
ole FreakZone taught me.
Look at that!
That looks yummy as hell dudes.
It smells really good too.
It smells vinegary and spicy.
All right, let me eat one.
So I got my little sauce and a little bit of that.
Whooo it’s hot!
Ohhhhh, mmmmmm.
Dang!
Good grief those are delicious!
Man!
I see why people go crazy for these things.
I hope you try this.
These are awesome!
These would be great for like Super Bowl or game day or sports games or things like that.
They’re easy and you really can just kind of like forget about ‘em in the oven as
long as you set a timer and don’t get real drunk and pass out.
So, I hope you try it.
Let me know if you have an questions in the comments below, and I’ll get to them as
soon as I can.
Please remember to subscribe, and thanks so much for watching.
Have a great week!
Happy Super Bowl!
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