Spicy Citrus Caramel Chicken Wings Recipes

CARAMEL CHICKEN WINGS

Steps:

• Clean and assemble chicken wings.
• Place chicken wings in mixing bowl. Set aside.
• Prepare the marinade by measuring out ingredients and placing in a mixing bowl: sugar, rice wine, oil, sesame oil and golden mountain.
• Mix marinade ingredients with a whisk until combined, and then pour over chicken wings.
• Cover the bowl with the wings with plastic wrap and place in fridge overnight, or at least for 4 hours.
• In a small saucepan over medium heat, begin to toast star anise, cinnamon and shallots until fragrant. Set aside.
• In a separate small sauce pot, again over medium-low heat, add palm sugar, a splash of water and lime juice; begin to melt and caramelize the ingredients. The palm sugar can take anywhere from 10-20 minutes to turn completely into a liquid. Palm sugar is an unrefined sugar, so it may be a bit grainy at first, but it will smooth out. If the melting palm sugar smokes a bit, it's fine. If the melting sugar starts to burn or seize, reduce the heat.
• Once the sugar appears dark red-brown, the caramel has formed. Remove the pot from the heat and slowly add in the fish sauce while continuously stirring. Be careful: the caramel may splatter, as it is very hot and can burn. Add in the reserved toasted spices and dried chiles to the caramel sauce, pour into a heat safe container, cover, and place in the cooler overnight to allow the flavours to steep. Note: the caramel is very sticky.
• When you are ready to fry the chicken wings, remove them from cooler and prepare the batter/coating for the chicken wings.
• Pre-heat fryer to 300°F (149°C) or pour oil into a 7 ½-qt deep pot.
• In a mixing bowl, create batter by combining potato starch, wondra and salt; whisk to incorporate.
• Pour the dry batter mixture directly onto the marinated chicken wings. Using your hands, fully incorporate the dry ingredients into the marinated wings until it forms a wet batter.
• To begin the first fry, set up fryer station with tongs and sheet tray with rack.
• Once the fryer has reached temperature, drop each batter-coated chicken wing into the oil.Be sure not to crowd or over-fill the fryer. This will cause the oil to decrease in temperature.
• Fry for 2 minutes; then, remove the chicken wing with tongs and place onto a sheet tray with a wire rack.
• Once all the chicken wings are fried, begin to prepare them for a second fry for that extra-crispy taste, ensuring they're also fully cooked. You can also place wings in the freezer overnight to fry the next day or when you feel the need for these wings.
• Remove reserved caramel from cooler and allow to come up to room temperature. Once the caramel is at room temperature, strain the caramel into a sauce pot using a fine mesh strainer. You can then discard the spices.
• Gently reheat caramel sauce. Keep warm on range at low heat. Make sure the sauce does not scald or burn.
• Prepare for the second crispy fry.
• As for the first fry, pre-heat fryer to 350ºF. (177ºC) or pour oil into a 7 ½-qt deep pot.
• Drop chicken wings (frozen, if refrigerated overnight) into fryer and fry for 8-10 minutes, until fully cooked at 160ºF/ 71ºC. The wings will look to be a deep walnut-brown colour.
• Once wings are fully cooked, remove from the fryer and dip chicken wings into warmed caramel sauce for 1 minute.
• Remove chicken wings from the caramel bath using tongs, and then place glazed wings on a baking sheet with rack to allow extra caramel to run off.
• Clean and measure out fresh herbs for rau mau and mayo. Chop all fresh herbs and set aside.
• In a food processor or blender, combine mayonnaise, and measured rau mau herbs and lime juice. Blend until combined, and add water as needed to thin out rau mau mayonnaise.
• Remove rau mau mayonnaise from food processor or blender with rubber spatula and place in a plastic container until later use.
• Grab an oval plate and place a dollop of rau mayonnaise on the plate.
• Place caramel chicken wings on top of rau mayonnaise and garnish with fresh rau mau herbs.
• Serve and enjoy.

CARAMEL CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the brown sugar and cook, stirring constantly, until it begins to melt, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the garlic and ginger and cook, continuing to stir, for another 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in the vinegar, fish sauce and soy sauce. Bring to a low simmer and let cook for about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat.
• Use a paper towel to thoroughly pat dry the chicken. Sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper.
• Heat a large ovenproof skillet over high heat until very hot. Add the oil. Place the chicken in the skillet skin-side down and let brown without moving it for about 4 minutes. Remove the chicken to a plate and raise the heat to medium-high. Add the brown sugar mixture and use a wooden spoon to scrape up any browned bits. Return the chicken to the skillet skin-side up. Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake, basting the chicken with the sauce midway through cooking, until cooked through, about 20 minutes. For extra-crispy skin, transfer the skillet to the broiler for about 2 minutes. Serve over white rice with sauce.

SPICY BUTTERSCOTCH WINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Using a sharp knife, cut through the 2 wing joints; discard wing tips. Combine next 7 ingredients; add wings and toss to coat., Line a 15x10-in. pan with foil; grease with cooking spray. Bake wings in prepared pan 10 minutes; reduce heat to 350° and bake until juices run clear, 12-15 minutes. Remove from oven; keep warm., Meanwhile, in a small skillet, spread sugar; cook, without stirring, over medium heat until it begins to melt. Gently drag melted sugar to center of pan so it melts evenly. Cook, without stirring, until melted sugar turns amber. Carefully stir in warm milk and butter. Simmer, stirring frequently, until thickened, 5-7 minutes. Keep warm., In a large skillet over medium heat, melt butter; add bread crumbs, 1 green onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Cook and stir until bread crumbs are golden brown, about 2 minutes. Set aside., To serve, toss wings in butterscotch sauce. Sprinkle with crumb topping, remaining green onion and sliced peppers, if desired. Serve hot.

SPICY CITRUS CARAMEL CHICKEN WINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• In a large bowl, toss chicken together with olive oil, salt, and half of the lime and lemon zests. Spread in an even layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Transfer to oven and roast until golden brown, draining fat and shaking pan occasionally, about 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, slice the top and bottom of oranges with a paring knife. Set one of the flat sides on your work surface. From top to bottom, following the curve of the fruit, cut away peel and white pith. Trim off any remaining pith. Holding the oranges over a bowl, cut along both sides of each segment, staying close to the membrane, to release. Chop oranges and place in a fine mesh sieve in a bowl, to drain, pressing down on oranges to release juice as necessary; set aside.
• In a medium saucepan heat sugar and 1 teaspoon water over medium-high heat and cook, stirring occasionally and brushing down the sides of the saucepan with a damp pastry brush, until the sugar dissolves and comes to a boil. Cook until mixture becomes golden amber in color; remove from heat and add orange juice. Return mixture to heat and cook until reduced by half, about 4 minutes. Stir in corn syrup and continue cooking until thickened, about 1 minute more. Add orange pieces and cook until liquid is reduced and mixture is thick, about 3 minutes; remove from heat.
• Remove chicken from oven and transfer to a large bowl. Pour over citrus glaze and toss to coat. Stir in remaining lime and lemon zest, ginger, Sriracha, and cayenne pepper; serve immediately.

ASIAN CARAMEL CHICKEN WINGS

Steps:

• Put the sugar in a medium sauté pan with enough water to make it go sludgy. Place on a low heat and bring to the boil, then cook until you have a dark amber caramel (see tip, below).
• At arms length, add the other ingredients, except for the chicken and garnish, and bring to a simmer - take care as it will spit. Once it has calmed down a little and you have a thick sauce, stir in the wings until well coated. Pour over 100ml water and simmer on a medium heat for about 30 mins, stirring every now and then until the sauce is a thicker consistency - add a splash more water if needed.
• Turn down the heat and continue to cook, covered, for a further 15 mins, stirring occasionally, until the wings are lacquered and tender and the sauce is very thick. Turn off the heat and quickly stir through half the spring onion, ginger and chilli. Tip the wings and sauce onto a platter. Scatter with the remaining garnish and coriander, and serve with extra lime and rice.

SPICY CITRUS CHICKEN WINGS

Steps:

• Mix first 4 ingredients in large bowl until blended. Reserve 1/4 cup of the honey mixture; refrigerate until ready to use. Add chicken to remaining honey mixture; toss to coat. Refrigerate 1 hour to marinate.
• Preheat broiler. Remove chicken from marinade; discard marinade. Place wings on rack of broiler pan.
• Broil, 4 inches from heat, 16 to 20 min. or until chicken is done, turning occasionally and brushing with the reserved honey mixture for the last 5 min.

SPICY CARAMEL CHICKEN

Steps:

• Whisk grated ginger, garlic, brown sugar, rice vinegar, fish sauce, hot sauce, and soy sauce together in a large bowl.
• Place chicken chunks in a bowl. Pour 1/4 cup of the prepared sauce onto chicken chunks; mix until all chicken pieces are coated. Set aside 15 minutes.
• Heat vegetable oil in a heavy skillet over high heat. As soon as oil starts to smoke, place chicken chunks in a single layer in the pan. Cook and stir until chicken pieces start to caramelize and turn deep brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Reduce heat to medium. Stir in sliced jalapeno and red peppers, peanuts, and green onions. Cook and stir one minute. Pour in remainder of sauce. Simmer until heated through, 1 or 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Stir in cilantro. Serve over hot cooked rice and top with chopped green onions.