Super Crispy, Oven Baked Skinny Chicken Wings Drenched in Buffalo Sauce!
It’s officially fall. I know you must be tired of listening to this but hey fall is my favorite of all seasons! The best part being that you can eat your heart out as there is no trying to look good for fitting in your swimsuit or shorts. Long flowy sweaters, dresses with tights, basically all sorts of comfy clothes with big big mugs of steaming coffee or tea are what fall is made up of. The dinner on the other hand is entirely a different story and these baked wings fit perfectly in this cozy fall season.
As you might have guessed I don’t really cook much meat but I am slowly getting my way around it. I grew up eating lots of lamb and I kind of still love it especially the amazingly flavorful lamb kebobs back home which I get to eat whenever I would visit one of my favorite aunt. On that note, I totally asked my mother to get hold of that recipe and if rumours are to be believed, I soon must be receiving it!
So back to these wings I totally love eating chicken wings and of all the gazillion flavors I have tried, basic crispy chicken wings with buffalo sauce are my all time favorite. The best part: THESE babies are BAKED! So basically you can leave all your shame and dig right in these beautiful crispy delicious saucy wings and not worry about gaining any weight!!
So seriously make these for dinner tonight!
On another note, I know I am totally late to the party but I am crazy addicted to Netflix show “Orange is the new Black”. I have literally watched 16 episodes of 52 minutes each in a matter of 4 days and there is no stopping me!! Yesterday was a slow day and I only watched half an episode but that show!! Totally worth wasting my time even though i have so many deadlines hanging over my head!
- 2 pounds chicken wings, cleaned
- 6 tbsp all purpose flour
- 2.5 tbsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp olive oil, divided
- ½ cup buffalo sauce (I like using Franks Buffalo Sauce)
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Salt to taste
- ½ tsp red chili powder
- 1 tsp apple cider or white vinegar
- In a bowl, transfer all the cleaned chicken wings.
- In another small bowl, mix flour and baking powder. Using a spoon add all the flour mix to the wings.
- Using tongs, move the wings around slowly but carefully so each and every wing gets coated with flour mix.
- Now use either a roasting pan with a rack or adjust an oven safe rack on top of a lined baking sheet. I like lining up the baking sheet or the roasting pan so it's much easier to clean.
- Using tongs or hands, Adjust all the flour coated chicken wings on top of the rack and let them chill in refrigerator for 30 mins to an hour to get dried up.
- Preheat oven to 420F.Drizzle the wings with 1 tbsp olive oil Move the whole chicken wings adjusted on a rack on roasting pan or baking sheet to the oven.Bake for good 30-40 minutes until golden and crispy.
- Flip the wings and again drizzle with remaining 1 tbsp olive oil. Bake for another 30 minutes or so until golden crispy.
- Meanwhile, Make the sauce. In a pot, heat butter and 1 tbsp olive oil. Add hot sauce, salt, red chili powder and vinegar. Taste and adjust the seasoning if any.
- Once the wings are done, place them in a bowl and add the sauce saving some for dipping. Coat them gently with the sauce using tongs or hands. Serve with the remaining buffalo sauce and ranch sauce.
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These buffalo chicken wings look delicious, Ami! They would be a great snack in my house for game day. Love this!
Thanks Gayle!
Buffalo wings are my go to meal for a lazy dinner 🙂 Great pictures, pinned.
Thanks Mira!
I could never guess that those are baked! They look SO delicious! Pinned!
Christina these taste just like fried but these are super healthy and baked!!
These look great! I think it has been a whole year since I last made chicken wings! Far too long, I say.
Jill you need to make these now!!
YUM! I’m not a wings person, but if I was, I’d totally want some that you made!! I love how you made them tasty AND healthy!! WIN-WIN!
Thanks Cailee!
These look awesome Ami! My husband is crazy obsessed with wings and anything with buffalo sauce and would devour these in no time 🙂 Love that they are baked!
Kelly hope you try these!!
Ami – love, love, love this recipe. We are HUGE wing fans, and I love them baked AND crispy. I think the secret ingredient here is the baking soda – I am sssooo trying that! These look gorgeous and are making me hungry! Pinned!
Kristi yes that makes a lot of difference!! Super crispy seriously!
I seriously cannot get enough “Buffalo” flavored things! This looks amazing!
Thanks Annie! Hope you try these!
These wings look delicious! And I’m also totally obsessed with Orange Is The New Black! Cant wait for Season 3! 🙂
Seriously me too!! I am crazy addicted to that show!!
These buffalo chicken wings look so good! I secretly like them, but they can be so unhealthy. I love that these are much healthier!
These are so much healthier and makes you feel way less guilty too!! Hehe
YUMMY! These are a favorite in our house!
Ours too Heather!
Hi Ami, fall is my favorite too, love these wings!
These look delicious! And even though we are heading to our warmer months, I can see this fitting quite nicely in a summer picnic or bbq
I’m soo impressed by these! They look delicious!
Fall is my favorite of all seasons too so I will never get sick of hearing about it! These chicken wings looks so crispy and that sauce sounds amazing! My husband would love a big bowl of these for football sunday 🙂
These look amazing! Gorgeous photos. And the cilantro on top?? I am really craving wings now.
Ooooh these look AWESOME, and I love that they’re baked! Such perfect game day food 🙂
Buffalo wings are my favourite!! Love the fact that these are baked… they look brilliant Ami!! Yummm!
Thanks Arpita!
Is it really 25 tbsp of baking powder or is that a typo?
It’s 2.5 tbsp Negeen. It’s written 2.5 tbsp there too! Let me know if you try this recipe! Thanks for stopping by!
Do you combine the Franks buffalo sauce with the olive oil, vinegar, hot sauce, chili powder (all mentioned above) or is it either or?
I am not sure how I missed your comment Negeen. Yes franks sauce is mixed with all those ingredients.
Hi there 🙂 I baked Your chicken today, only I used chicken drumsticks instead of wings. Honestly, i was skeptic about the recipe, I didn’t believe it’s possibile to get such a crunchy skin without deep frying.
They turned out so great! I followed the recipe and they were perfect – not at all dry and the skin was fabulous! The only thing I didn’t like was the slight taste of baking soda, but it was undistinguishable after putting them in sauce 🙂
It’s not easy to suprise me if it comes to a chicken, because I tried loads of recipes, but this one is special,- and yet so easy and quick 🙂 Thanks and greetings from Poland 🙂
Thank you Thank you Anna for such a wonderful comment!! This is our favorite oven fried chicken too! Hope you try many more recipes 🙂
The temperature is way too high to use olive oil in this recipe.
Hi Suzanne! This is not Extra Virgin Olive Oil but just regular olive oil which is safe for temperatures upto 450-500F. I buy it from Sam’s club/Costco and the bottle specifies it too. But you can use any other oil you have on hand if you want to! Hope you love this recipe as much as we do!