Description
A Pittsburgh favorite! Classic hot wings with a sweet and spicy kick. Serve with bleu cheese or ranch dressing.
Ingredients
- 4 cups vegetable oil for frying
- 3 eggs
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 cup bread flour
- ½ cup brown sugar and butter flavored breakfast cereal (such as Cap’n Crunch®), finely ground
- 5 pounds large chicken wings, patted dry with paper towels
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, melted
- ¾ cup hot pepper sauce (such as Frank’s RedHot®)
- ¼ cup bourbon whiskey
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon habanero pepper sauce
Instructions
- Heat oil in a deep-fryer or large saucepan to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Whisk together eggs and milk in a bowl. In a separate bowl
- stir together the bread flour and ground cereal. Coat the wings in the egg mixture
- then in the cereal mixture.
- Fry the wings
- 6 at a time
- in the oil until golden brown
- 12 to 15 minutes. Let wings drain on paper towels.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C). Line several baking sheets with parchment paper.
- While wings are frying
- mix the melted butter
- hot sauce
- bourbon
- honey
- Worcestershire sauce
- and habanero sauce in a large plastic tub with a lid. Place the wings into the sauce
- close the lid
- and shake to coat wings with sauce.
- Place the wings on the prepared baking sheets and bake in the preheated oven until the sauce is slightly sticky
- about 10 minutes.
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
Servings: 15