How to Make Crispy Baked Chicken Hot Wings

Crispy Buffalo Chicken Hot Wings are easy to make at home. With our method, you can skip the oil and fryer and make amazing baked chicken wings that rival your favorite restaurants. Switch to the Crispy Baked Chicken Hot Wings recipe

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Making the Best Homemade Buffalo Chicken Wings

We love hot wings, but the last thing we want to do at home is pull out a deep fryer. That’s why we’re such big fans of this Easy Baked Chicken Wings recipe.

Our chicken wings recipe is guaranteed to be crispy and delicious wing. They are also perfect for serving a crowd. With this simple recipe, you can make large batches of wings with little work.

Making chicken wings at home is so easy. Below we share how we make them, how long to bake the wings so they’re crispy, and an easy restaurant-style buffalo sauce to coat them with. There’s also a quick recipe for our favorite blue cheese dip.

There are three things to keep in mind when making the best buffalo chicken wings:

1. Whether you share the chicken wings is up to you. Some grocery stores already sell them separately in mace and wingette. If the wings you buy are not, you can do it yourself. Or leave them unseparated. The recipe works both ways. Here’s our tutorial on cutting a chicken wing if you’d like to see how.
2. Instead of frying them, bake the chicken wings on a rack in a rimmed baking sheet. Cooking the chicken wings on a rack allows the fat to drip off the chicken wings as they cook, helping them get extra crispy.
3. Bake the chicken wings on a high oven temperature – we choose 400º F. Bake the wings for 35 to 45 minutes. (You can bake wings at an even higher temperature, but depending on your oven, you may find that the oven smokes a bit).

How to Make Restaurant Style Buffalo Wing Sauce

While the wings are baking, you can prepare the Buffalo Wing Sauce. It’s easy. Melt some butter in a saucepan, then stir in hot pepper sauce (we love Frank’s hot sauce). When combined, season the sauce with garlic powder and salt.

Brush the crispy baked wings with the sauce and serve with celery and your favorite dipping sauce. We love dipping wings in blue cheese dressing. You can see how we make it from scratch below!

Five Minute Blue Cheese Dip

When we serve chicken wings, we love having a cool, creamy sauce on the side. Blue cheese and ranch are both popular, but we always go for blue cheese. Bonus, it’s easy to make yourself.

To do this, combine equal parts mayonnaise and sour cream in a bowl, then stir in lots of blue cheese, fresh parsley, and salt. The dressing is thick, creamy, and pairs perfectly with flavorful Buffalo chicken wings.

It also makes a delicious salad dressing. Thin the dip with a dash of milk or buttermilk and then use it over lettuce – here’s our blue cheese salad dressing recipe, it’s delicious!

We love chicken wings here, If you feel the same way, we highly recommend checking out these chicken wing recipes – both use the same method of baking the wings. Instead of buffalo sauce, we toss these baked chicken wings with a sweet chilli sauce. If you don’t like spicy wings, try our homemade grilled chicken wings. The sauce is made from scratch and so easy!

For another round of chicken wings, try grilled wings! We have two versions of Inspired Taste: our pho-inspired grilled chicken wings are full of flavor thanks to ginger, garlic and lime. We also love these Lemon Garlic Grilled Chicken Wings served with Parmesan Cheese.

Here are more buffalo chicken-inspired dishes:

Recipe updated originally posted December 2011. Since posting in 2011 we have tweaked the recipe to make it clearer and added a short recipe video. – Adam and Joanne

How to Make Crispy Baked Chicken Hot Wings

Makes 2 to 3 servings

Nutrition per serving: serving size 1/2 the recipe / calories 487 / protein 29 g / carbohydrate 0 g / fiber 0 g / total sugar 0 g / total fat 41 g / Saturated Fatty Acids 20 g / cholesterol 222mg

AUTHOR: Adam and Joanne Gallagher