Wings are essential to any party spread! Try my Air Fryer Chicken Wings for light, crispy wings, and my Honey BBQ Boneless Chicken Wings are perfect for the whole family! Confession: I love chicken wings. Especially wings that are super crispy and dripping with lots of sauce. The sauce has to be super spicy and accompanied by ranch dressing for dipping. When I order wings out at a restaurant I always get naked wings extra crispy and the sauce on the side. This ensures my wings are always super crispy and I can load them up with as much sauce as I like. I baked these chicken wings in the oven instead of frying them. It saves some calories and you still get a super crispy chicken wing. These wings are surprisingly easy to make. I like to make the Honey Chipotle sauce while the chicken is cooking and toss everything together once the chicken is out of the oven. These Crispy Baked Honey Chipotle Wings are a perfect snack or appetizer. Grab some napkins, whip up some Blue Cheese Dressing or Honey Jalapeño Ranch, and enjoy these Crispy Baked Honey Chipotle Wings!
What you’ll need for these baked wings
Chicken: Bone-in skin-on chicken wings are ideal for this recipe. The honey chipotle wing sauce also works with drumsticks or chicken thighs. Baking powder: Is my trick to CRISPY baked chicken wings! Seasonings: I like to season the chicken wings before baking them with salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder. Honey: Honey makes these wings sweet and sticky! The way wings should be! Chiles in adobo: I added the sauce from a can of chiles in adobo for the heat. It’s smoky and spicy, so addictive! Butter: Butter makes the hot honey wing sauce extremely moreish. Once you start it’s hard to stop eating them! Ketchup: Ketchup brings a little more sweetness and a robust tomato flavor to these wings. It’s amazing what a difference a little ketchup can make! Vinegar: To balance all of the other flavors with acidity, I added just a touch of apple cider vinegar. White wine vinegar would be a great substitute if needed.
How to make Honey Chipotle Wings
How do you make chipotle sauce for wings?
Now let’s talk about the sauce. It’s sweet and spicy and smothered on top of the wings. The sauce is made up of honey, chiles in adobo, ketchup, vinegar, and butter. You can control the amount of heat by adding more chiles in adobo for spicier wings or more honey to sweeten it up. To me, the chilies in adobo make the sauce. I like to add about 1-2 tablespoons more when I am making this for myself. I love the smokey flavor and spiciness. You can find chilies in adobo in your grocery store in the Mexican aisle. All you have to do to make the Honey Chipotle Wings Sauce is add all of the sauce ingredients to a saucepan on the stove and heat it until the butter melts and it’s warmed through. Then toss the wings in the sauce and serve!
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