Asian Caramel Chicken Wings Food

CARAMELIZED CHICKEN WINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Place chicken in a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Mix the oil, soy sauce, ketchup, honey, garlic, salt and pepper and pour over the chicken.
• Bake at 375°F (190°C) for one hour or until sauce is caramelized.

STICKY AND CRISPY ASIAN CHICKEN WINGS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 120C/250F and place a rack on a large baking tray.
• Cut each wing at the joint so you have a mini wing and a drumette. Dry the wings with paper towels, then place in a large bowl and add the baking powder, salt and pepper. Toss to combine. Note - it's important to dry the wings first so they only get a light coating. Discard any remaining coating once tossed together.
• Place in a single layer on the rack, skin side up. It's fine for them to be touching. Place on the lower shelf of the oven for 30 minutes.
• After 30 minutes, turn the oven up to 220c (425f), rotate the tray and place on a higher shelf (higher middle) in the oven for 45-50 minutes until the wings are golden and crispy. Take out of the oven to cool slightly.
• Place all of the sauce ingredients into a saucepan, stir and bring to the boil. Allow to bubble for 5-10 minutes until the sauce reduces and thickens slightly (it will thicken more as it cools). Turn off the heat.
• Place the wings in a large bowl and very carefully pour over the sticky sauce (be careful, it will VERY hot). Toss to combine, then serve topped with chopped spring onions.

CARAMEL CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a large skillet heat oil over medium high heat. Season chicken with salt and cook until golden brown on each side until crisp and cooked through. Transfer to a plate and set aside.
• Add garlic cloves to skillet until golden brown about 2 minutes. Transfer to the plate of chicken.
• Return pot to medium high heat and carefully pour 1/2 cup of water scraping down the browned bits. Whisk in the brown sugar until dissolved. Then cook until mixture turns a deep amber color. About 4 minutes. Carefully add vinegar and stir to dissolve.
• Add garlic, broth and soy sauce. Bring cooking liquid to a boil and whisk occasionally. This takes about 10 minutes. Be patient. The sauce will thicken and glaze the chicken beautifully.
• Once glaze is ready, turn heat to medium low and return chicken to pan until heated through. Serve over rice and garnish with scallions or green onions if desired.

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.

STICKY ASIAN CHICKEN WINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Coat a wire rack with nonstick spray and place on a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil; set aside. Using paper towels, pat wings dry. In a large bowl, combine wings, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon pepper and baking powder. Place wings onto the prepared baking sheet and bake for 40-45 minutes, using metal tongs to turn at halftime. In a small saucepan over medium low heat, combine oyster sauce, ketchup, marmalade, Dijon, honey and chili garlic sauce. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, stirring constantly, until slightly thickened, about 2-3 minutes. Preheat oven to broil. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. In a large bowl, combine wings and half the oyster sauce mixture. Place wings onto the prepared baking sheet and broil, turning once, until glossy and lightly caramelized, about 3-5 minutes. Stir in remaining oyster sauce mixture. Serve immediately, garnished with green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.

VIETNAMESE STYLE CARAMEL CHICKEN WINGS

Steps:

• Simmer the water and sugar in a sauce pan over medium heat until it turns a deep amber, about 10-15 minutes.
• Mix the fish sauce, lime juice, chili sauce, and garlic and carefully add it to the pan, then heat until the caramel dissolves.
• Marinate the chicken wings in the sauce for 30 minutes to overnight.
• Place the chicken wings on a rack, on a foil lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated 400F/200C oven until golden brown and crispy, about 25-30 minutes.
• Meanwhile place the marinade in a sauce pan and simmer over medium heat to thicken, about 7-10 minutes.
• Toss the wings in the caramel sauce 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.

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.