All The Wing Recipes You Could Ever Want For Super Bowl Sunday
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During Super Bowl 50, viewers reportedly consumed about 1.3 billion chicken wings tossed with Buffalo, barbecue, Korean, jerk, and every other sauce imaginable. We're here to tell you how to get ready for a repeat for Super Bowl LI!
If you're watching at home, there's no need to miss out on restaurant- or stadium-quality chicken wings; all you need is the right recipe.
This collection of wing recipes has options to not only fry the wings but also grill, smoke, slow-cook, and bake wings to suit your location, time frame, and preference; the only important thing is that you serve up some big-time flavor.
We are kicking off this roundup with a recipe for the ultimate classic: Buffalo wings. The original version of Buffalo wings was first served at Anchor Bar restaurant in Buffalo, New York (although some people credit John Young, a restaurant owner in the area, for serving the fried wings first). You can actually buy Anchor Bar's signature sauce online, but fun fact: The not-so-secret ingredient in great Buffalo sauce is Frank's RedHot hot sauce.
Ultimate Buffalo Wings
No matter how you put it, it doesn't get any better than a classic Buffalo wing. This is the ultimate wing recipe, giving you that hot, buttery, and crispy goodness you crave.
Chicken Wings With Honey-Teriyaki Glaze
These wings are marinated in a sweet-and-spicy sauce that is later reduced to make a delectable glaze for the crispy, tender wings. You can marinate them anywhere from two hours to a day, or, inversely, you can simply bake the wings drizzled with olive oil and then toss the finished product in the thickened glaze.
For the Chicken Wings With Honey-Teriyaki Glaze recipe, click here.
Chipotle Wings
These wings get a flavorful kick of spice by combining barbecue sauce with puréed chipotle peppers.
Coca-Cola Chicken Wings
America's favorite soda can do more than satisfy your thirst and unclog your sink. The liquid reduces into a rich and flavorful syrup, which makes it an ideal marinade for foods like chicken and pork.
Crispy Garlic Parmesan Wings
These cheesy wings are baked in the oven until cooked through. Then, they're broiled to earn an extra crispy exterior.
Five-Spice Chicken Wings
Chinese Five Spice and other delicious aromatic flavors infuse these wings, which are then baked in the oven and drizzled with lime juice.
Garlic-Miso Chicken Wings
Here, tender wings are coated in a delicious combination of garlic, miso, soy sauce, and mirin.
Grilled Firewalker Wings
These wings pack a spicy punch. It's advised that you have plenty of ice-cold beer on hand to soothe your taste buds from the sriracha and sambal combo that is sure to set them ablaze.
Grilled Jerk Chicken Wings
These wings are coated with Caribbean jerk seasonings mixed with barbecue sauce, mustard, brown sugar, and ginger.
Harissa Wings With Cucumber and Yogurt
Chicken is rubbed in a spicy and powerful harissa sauce (make homemade with this recipe!) and then is paired with English cucumbers and yogurt to tame the heat.
For the Harissa Wings With Cucumber and Yogurt recipe, click here.
Honey-Mustard Chicken Wings
To make this sauce, spicy brown mustard is mixed with sweet honey, turmeric, lemon juice, and butter.
Honey-Sriracha Glazed Buffalo Wings
Chef Randy Clemens, author of The Sriracha Cookbook, recommends you pair these wings with a hoppy IPA beer; the honey in the wings gives a perfect sweetness that foils the bitterness of the hops beautifully.
For the Honey-Sriracha Glazed Buffalo Wings recipe, click here.
John Legend’s Fried Chicken Wings With Spicy Honey Butter
Straight out of Chrissy Teigen's best-selling cookbook, Cravings, these crispy, finger-licking wings boast stand-out flavor thanks to using seasoned salt in both the brine and the breading.
Korean Barbecue Wings
Executive chef Andy Choi of Cherry in New York City puts his own spin on chicken wings by creating a spicy sauce made with red pepper paste and bacon fat drippings.
Kung Pao Chicken Wings
Chicken wings are coated in a rich flour batter before deep-frying. When cooked, they are tossed with a sweet and spicy Kung Pao-inspired sauce, then topped with chopped peanuts, cilantro, and scallions and served with a cool buttermilk ranch sauce.
Maple Chipotle Chicken Wings
Keep your hungry crowd satiated and happy with these maple- and chipotle-flavored wings.
Mario Batali’s Big Game Wings
If you like your wings hot, check out his recipe by master chef Mario Batali for Tabasco and you can't go wrong.
New Orleans-Style Blackened Chicken Wings
Just a little blackened seasoning and olive oil are all it takes to make these delicious wings.
For the New Orleans-Style Blackened Chicken Wings recipe, click here.
One-Pot Sticky Chicken Wings
Food celebrity Andrew Zimmern's go-to wings are Asian-inspired with a sauce made of anise, soy, sake, ginger, and chile. Then, his wings are sautéed in a pan on the stove.
For Andrew Zimmern's 1-Pot Sticky Chicken Wings recipe, click here.
Simple Chicken Wings
The flavor on these guys comes from the marinade rather than a drippy sauce that gets all over your fingers and face.
For the Simple Chicken Wings recipe, click here.
Slow-Cooker Buffalo Wings
Put your slow-cooker to work and gently braise your wings to perfection. When you're ready to eat, place your wings under the broiler to crisp up the edges.
Smoked Chicken Wings
These wings are submerged in a flavorful brine for 12 hours then smoked for an hour and a half. To finish, they are grilled to get charred and crispy.
Spicy Cajun Hot Wings
Grab a bottle of Cajun seasoning and a bottle of Frank's RedHot and go to town.
Spicy Grilled Wings
Cooking wings directly over the fire gets the skin crispy without deep-frying.
Tequila-Lime Wings
This recipe adds a bit of Southwestern flair to make the wings tangy and citrusy. The chicken is marinated with fresh lime juice, tequila, and jalapeños, and is then grilled to flavorful perfection.