How to Season Chicken Wings

Chicken wings are truly a food for all seasons. You can throw them on the grill at a summer barbecue or serve them as a halftime snack while watching a winter football game. By now everyone's familiar with the tasty hot sauce and butter-drenched buffalo wings (often served accompanied by blue cheese dressing and celery sticks), but if you'd like to try something a little different, here are a few more ways you can prepare chicken wings.

Things You'll Need

• 2 lbs. chicken wings, split
• Baking pan or deep fryer
• Condiments and other sauce ingredients of your choice

Instructions

1. Cook your wings as you would for buffalo wings. This involves baking them at 350 degrees F for about 45 minutes to one hour or deep frying them at 375 degrees F for 10 to 15 minutes.

2. Stir together 1 tsp. red pepper flakes, 1/3 cup light corn syrup and 1/2 cup white vinegar in a small saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring, then take it off the heat and pour it over the cooked wings while they are still warm to make hot and sour-style wings.

3. Blend 1/3 cup peanut butter (creamy or chunky), 1/4 cup canned cream of coconut, two cloves of garlic (minced), 1/4 cup water, 1 tbsp. lemon juice, 1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes and 1 tsp. soy sauce until well-combined. Pour this over your wings for a sate sauce.

4. Heat 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/4 cup hot sauce (Louisiana-style), 2 tbsp. honey, 2 tbsp. vegetable oil, 1/4 tsp. garlic powderand 1/4 tsp ginger in a small saucepan. This seasoning sauce will give you teriyaki-style wings.

5. Mix one 8 oz. bottle of barbecue sauce with 1/4 cup honey. If you pour this over deep-fried wings, they will taste quite a bit like the honey barbecue wings served up by KFC.

6. Liven up a luau with Hawaiian wings. Combine 1 1/2 cups crushed, drained pineapple with 3/4 cup barbecue sauce,1 tbsp. soy sauce and 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, then say aloha to tasty wings.

Tips & Warnings

• Always check for that the chicken is done by cutting into the thickest part of the flesh to see if there is any pinkness close to the bone (there won't be when the wing is done).