These Grilled Chicken Wings get a Buffalo chicken style chicken wing marinade that gets reduced to serve as the chicken wing sauce.
Get your friends and family together and let them know they’re having Buffalo chicken wings for dinner – then tell them they’re grilled and not fried!
Anyone watching their calories will thank you, and those lucky enough not to worry about the pounds will love grilled chicken wings just as much as the traditional fried ones.
One of the secrets is the chicken wing sauce.
You will need a can of your favorite soda – Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper are the usual favorites – to mix in with the traditional hot sauce, blue cheese and butter.
Have fun with this one.
You’ll be getting lots of requests for these wings, and it won’t bust your budget to give ’em what they want!
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The secret to the great taste of these wings is the sauce. It contains cola! Prep time includes four hours for marinating.
- 3 pounds chicken wings separated at the joints
- 1 cup of hot sauce such as Tabasco or Louisiana style, such as Trappey's
- 1 can 12 ounces cola, regular or diet
- 1/2 cup blue cheese dressing
- 1/2 cup 1 stick unsalted butter, melted
- Kosher salt and ground black pepper
- Whisk together the hot sauce and cola for the chicken wing marinade. Combine the marinade mixture with the chicken wings and put in a large baggie or covered container.
- Refrigerate the wings in the marinade at least 4 hours, or preferably overnight.
- Remove the chicken wings from the chicken wing marinade and drain them on paper towels. Season the wings with the kosher salt and black pepper.
- Create the chicken wing sauce by placing the marinade in a small saucepan and reducing the liquid by half. Set the chicken wing sauce aside.
- Light a charcoal barbecue or gas grill. Grill the marinated chicken wings until they are cooked through, turning frequently so that all sides get a little charred.
- Put the melted butter in a large bowl, and as the chicken wings get cooked, put them in the bowl. When all the wings are done, toss them in the melted butter until they are well coated.
Serve the grilled chicken wings with the chicken wing sauce made from the reduced marinade and the blue cheese dressing on the side.
On Your Own – You can make this recipe spicier by adding a dash or two of cayenne pepper to the melted butter.
Good to Know – If you don’t have a grill, or if it’s not barbecue weather, bake the marinated chicken wings on a large sheet pan in a 350F oven.
Turn them occasionally to keep from burning – all that cola will caramelize and they can get stuck to the sheet pan.
Food For Thought – You can marinate the chicken wings in the hot sauce and cola then freeze them. Let them thaw out in the refrigerator overnight.
The reduced sauce will keep for at least a week in the refrigerator but I don’t recommend freezing it.
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