Despite the fact that chicken wings have very little meat, the dishes from them are incredibly juicy and tasty. They can fry, bake, boil and simmer. Wings in honey sauce are prepared easily and quickly, moreover with minimal costs. Sweet marinade makes the taste of meat unique. At the expense of honey, the wings acquire a beautiful golden and crispy surface, and from the inside they turn out soft and delicate.
The ideal combination for the sauce is honey and citrus juice. It turns out the classic sweet and sour marinade for chicken. Instead of citrus fruits, you can take balsamic vinegar, mustard or soy sauce. Gourmet dish will be a real treat, which can be served even on a festive table as a hot or a snack.
Wings in honey sauce - general principles of cooking
For the dish, it is advisable to choose chilled wings, on which there are no bruises and dark spots. Also choosing a product, you should pay attention to its color, it should be pale pink. The unpleasant smell and feathers of the wings should be absent. Their size should not exceed 13-14 cm.
Before cooking the wings must be processed. To begin, they should be washed under running water, remove all excess and dried with kitchen paper towels. If desired, the wings can be divided into two parts, so it will be more convenient to eat them.
Honey for the marinade is better to take floral or buckwheat. Honey sauce can be prepared with the addition of lemon juice or orange. This marinade does not deteriorate, so you can safely leave the meat rolled in it for the night. Also as a dressing fit: dried mint, garlic, tomato paste, herbs or cloves.
As a side dish, you can serve boiled rice, mashed potatoes, mushrooms, steamed vegetables, buckwheat porridge or salads.
Wings in honey sauce - a classic recipe
Ingredients:
• 600 g chicken wings; • 6 Art. l lemon juice;
• 4 tbsp. l orange juice;
• 4 tbsp. l honey
• salt to taste;
• to taste black pepper;
• a few mint leaves;
• 6 Art. l sunflower oil.
Cooking Method:
1. Wash chicken wings, cut into joints and fry in butter until crispy crust.
2. Mix lemon juice with orange juice, add honey, salt and pepper. Mix.
3. Place the wings in a greased baking sheet or pan for baking in the oven. Pour over cooked sweet and sour sauce and put in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
4. Mint leaves to sort, wash and finely chop.
5. Serve the finished dish in portions, decorating mint greens.
Baked wings in honey sauce
Ingredients:
• 450 g chicken wings;
• 30 ml of liquid honey;
• 30 g mustard sauce;
• 30 ml of soy sauce;
• 30 ml of sunflower oil;
• 15 grams of mustard seeds;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• 15 g of spice for chicken.
Cooking Method:
1. For the marinade, pour honey, mustard sauce and soy into an enamel bowl. Add sunflower oil, spices and mustard seeds.
2. Peel and chop the garlic. Send to marinade.
3. Wash chicken wings, dry a little on the air and coat the marinade liberally from all sides. Put in the same bowl, cover with a bag or food foil and send to the refrigerator overnight.
4. Place the wings in a baking sheet prepared for baking, pour the marinade and put in the oven for about an hour. During cooking, it is better to remove the wings once or twice and turn them over, then pour the marinade again.
5. Lay the wings on a plate. If desired, the dish can be decorated with any fresh greens.
Wings in honey sauce with tomatoes and potatoes
Ingredients:
• 450 g chicken wings;
• 120 g dried tomatoes or tomato paste;
• five potatoes;
• 25 g liquid honey;
• 4 tbsp. l sunflower oil;
• salt to taste;
• three sprigs of dill;
• to taste ground black pepper.
Cooking Method: 1. Dried tomatoes finely chop or grind in mashed potatoes with slices, add honey, salt and ground pepper.
2. Wash the potatoes and peel. Then chop into straws.
3. Wash the wings in cold water and pat dry with kitchen paper towels. Cut into joints. Fry them with sunflower oil until crispy crust.
4. Add to them potatoes and a mixture of dried tomatoes. Pour a glass of hot boiled water.
5. Simmer at moderate heat and cover closed for about 40 minutes.
6. Serve as a main course, sprinkled with chopped dill.
Wings in honey sauce with lemon juice
Ingredients:
• 550 g chicken wings;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• 60 g of honey;
• 60 g butter;
• 40 ml of sunflower oil;
• 60 g sesame seeds;
• salt to taste;
• to taste ground pepper;
• one lemon.
Cooking Method:
1. Wash the wings in cool water, chop and dry a little.
2. Remove the peel of garlic and wash it. Then chop with a knife or pass through a special crush.
3. Wash the lemon, cut into two halves and squeeze the juice. If you squeeze by hand, the juice must be drained through a sieve to avoid bones.
4. Mix the garlic with lemon juice, honey, salt and pepper.
5. Rub this mixture on the wings and set aside for half an hour.
6. Grease a small baking sheet with sunflower oil and put wings there. Add half a glass of water. Bake in the oven for 15-17 minutes.
7. Then pull out the baking sheet, turn the wings and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Put back in the oven for the same time.
8. Serve with any side dish of potatoes.
Wings in honey sauce with apples
Ingredients:
• 550 g chicken wings;
• 90 g of honey;
• 90 ml of water;
• 4-5 small apples;
• 70 ml of lemon juice;
• 1-2 cloves;
• sunflower oil;
• 140 g of rice cereal;
• salt to taste.
Cooking Method:
1. Wash the wings, chop and fry in oil on all sides until cooked.
2. Rice crumble, rinse with starch, add water and boil in a separate saucepan. When it boils, sprinkle the rice with salt and remove the foam. Cover the pan with a lid and leave to simmer. When the rice grains are soft, wash the rice and set aside so that the water is glass. 3. In the meantime, take the sauce. Apples can take any, but better a little sour green. They wash, clean, remove the core. Pulp apples grind in mashed potatoes.
4. Add honey, lemon juice, some water and cloves to apple puree. Pour into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Stew for a few minutes.
5. Lay the fried wings on a plate and pour over the cooked sauce.
Boiled wings in honey sauce with buckwheat
Ingredients:
• 450 g chicken wings;
• 2 tsp. butter;
• 60 g of lemon juice;
• several mint leaves;
• 60 g of honey;
• 2 tbsp. l dried mint;
• salt to taste;
• 4 tbsp. l sunflower oil;
• 100 grams of buckwheat.
Cooking Method:
1. Wash chicken wings, chop, put in a pan and pour hot water. When cooked meat for the second dish, pour it with hot water. Add salt and boil on the fire. Be sure to remove foam during the cooking process.
2. To sort the buckwheat, in a saucepan pour cool water and rinse, drain the dirty water. Put the cereal in a separate saucepan and pour cold water over it, so that it is 5-6 cm higher than buckwheat. Put on heat when the water boils, remove the foam and add sunflower oil and salt. Boil for about 7-10 minutes until the water is evaporated to the level of the cereal, and then cover the buckwheat porridge and cover while standing.
3. Wash mint leaves, finely chop.
4. Mix fresh and dried mint in a small turk, add lemon juice, butter and honey. Add salt. Put on a slow fire and warm for a couple of minutes.
5. Buckwheat grains should swell well by this time.
6. Place the cooked wings on a portion plate and pour over the sauce. Near lay a portion of buckwheat porridge.
Wings in spicy honey sauce
Ingredients:
• 680 g chicken wings;
• spoon of curry;
• cardamom spoon;
• three spoons of buckwheat honey;
• big spoon of spicy mustard;
• two spoons of saffron;
• salt;
• half a spoon of ground ginger;
• one third cup of soy sauce. Cooking Method:
1. In a skillet, constantly stirring, melt buckwheat honey.
2. Add curry, ham ginger, salt, hot mustard and soy sauce. To stir thoroughly.
3. In a separate glass, pour the saffron, pour a couple of spoons of water and let it brew. Then add the mixture to the honey sauce.
4. Mash the cardamom in a separate mortar and also add to the honey mass. Mix.
5. Wash the wings thoroughly under running water and cut into two parts.
6. Cover the baking sheet with foil. Lay out the wings tightly to each other and evenly pour the spicy sauce. Leave for a quarter of an hour to marinate.
7. Cook in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for half an hour.
8. Serve with fresh vegetables.
Wings in honey sauce - tricks and useful tips
• For cooking marinades try to use natural products.
• Before you pickle the wings, pierce them in several places with a fork.
• To make the crust on wings a maximum ruddy and crispy, bake them at 200 degrees.
• If honey is mixed with soy sauce and heated, then this marinade will make the surface of the wings glazed.
• It will be more tasty if you first fry the wings in a pan with butter and only then add honey marinade to them.
• To prevent the honey from getting lost, do not put a lot of spices in the marinade.
• You can cook such wings on an open fire, put on a skewer.
