Boneless chicken wings

birthday cake

My large birthday party event was last night and one of the big hits in my opinion was the boneless chicken wings.  Crispy, tender little bits of chicken with sauce to dip in.  This is a pretty easy recipe to do and seems to come out well.  First, the sauces.  You will need buffalo and blue cheese sauce and you may want to include a bbq sauce as well.  The Buffalo sauce is a mixture of butter and Franks Red Hot.  A 50- 50 mix get you the flavor without a lot of heat.  More butter will make less heat; less butter leads to more heat.  If you like it even hotter you can and ground red pepper  as well. 

Buffalo sauce

½ cup of butter

½ cup of franks red hot

1 teaspoon of brown sugar

1 tablespoon of vinegar

3 tablespoons of flour

Melt the butter in a small sauce pan.  Add the flour and mix well.  Add the rest of the ingredients mix well and set aside. 

The blue cheese recipe I use is a super-secret recipe acquired form one of the first restaurants ever to serve wings.  I will see if I can get the owner to share the recipe and story sometime.

For the wings I use boneless chicken breast.  You can find it on sale everywhere and it is very easy to work with.  I know the meat from your mass market places do not taste as good but we will fix some of that.

Chicken wings

6 boneless chicken breasts

¼ cup salt

¼ cup sugar

½ cup all-purpose flour

4 egg whites

½ cup corn starch

¼ cup cornmeal

¼ (more) all-purpose flour

Take your chicken breast and slice them crosswise about the width of a wing.  Take all the sliced up chicken and put it in a picture.  To the picture add salt and sugar and shake until dissolved.  Let this sit in the fridge at least an hour.  Take them out and drain them in a colander until dry.  Take three dishes and put them on your counter. To the first add just flour, to the second add the egg whites, and to the third add corn starch, cornmeal and flour.  Beat the egg whites to break them up a bit.  Take a rimmed baking sheet with a rack and set it near your work area.  Take a piece of chicken and roll it in the flour until dry.  Then roll it in the egg whites until all wet.  Then roll it in the mixed flours until dry, set it on the rack.  Repeat the process until all chicken is coated.  Set your deep fryer for 360 and let it warm up.  Cook the chicken until light golden and drain on paper towels.  Warm the buffalo sauce and serve the wings and sauces as dips for the wings.