Crispy Buffalo Wings baked in oven. Very crispy thanks to a secret ingredient. You’ll no longer want to fry them. Serve them coated with a luscious hot sauce and lick your fingers!
Updated on 1/30/2017 with a video. Different from the previous recipe, I added curry powder in the recipe to give the wings a nice flavor. You can see the hot&sweet sauce I made for this recipe there. Plus, you’ll witness how we enjoyed these scrumptious buffalo wings at the end of it. I couldn’t count how many I ate!
Crispy Buffalo Wings can definitely be made in oven. I’ve made these in oven and they are as good as deep-fried wings. You will be amazed when you see that these are wonderfully crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. The recipe is pretty simple. You will be successful even if you have little experience of cooking or no experience at all. I have the same crispy and juicy result every time I make these and they are life saver when you have guests for dinner or for a game party.
These crispy buffalo wings have a secret ingredient that makes them that perfect. Did I tell you how simple the ingredients are? Don’t worry for that secret ingredient that makes the magic, I’m sure you always have it in your kitchen. Ok, I’m talking about baking powder. Have you ever used it for something different from cake or pie kind of thing? I sometimes really love the chemistry behind cooking. It simply helps the wings to get crispy. You can even watch it when they are in oven, you’ll see how their skin rises and sizzles, which results in a crispy surface.
Noone realizes the baking powder addition on these wings, it doesn’t taste at all. These incredible buffalo wings are flavored with garlic and chili. Sounds flavorsome, doesn’t it?
After seeing that it’s possible to make crispy buffalo wings in oven, you’ll no longer want to fry them. No mess in the kitchen. Something we all want, right?
I’ll be honest. I don’t use fork or knife when eating these crispy buffalo wings. I use my hands and yes lick my fingers after cleaning the bone perfectly. Isn’t it the fun part of eating wings?
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Crispy buffalo wings in oven.
- Prep Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Yield: 2
- Category: Appetizer
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 4 lbs chicken wings
- 3 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder, optional
- 1/2 tablespoon curry powder, optional
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
- Pat the chicken wings dry with paper towel.
- In a large bowl, combine baking powder, salt, garlic powder, chili powder and curry powder (if you’re using) until blended and whisk to combine well.
- Add the chicken wings into this mixture and coat each evenly with the mixture.
- Pour olive oil over them and stir.
- Cover with plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Preheat oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place chicken wings on the baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes. After this time, remove them from oven, turn them over and bake for another 10 minutes.
- Serve hot.
Notes
Optional serving: You can prepare a sauce mixing 1/2 cup chili sauce, 1/4 cup soy sauce and 1 tablespoon honey. Toss in the oven baked wings.
I understand that you revised the recipe to optionally include curry powder, however, have the measurements for the other ingredients changed as well?
Most notably the amount /weight of chicken wings.
I had written out the original recipe and this is what I have:
1 pound of chicken wings , the recipe now says 4 pounds
1 1/2 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tbsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tsp chili powder
1 tbsp olive oil
Please advise if this was the original recipe.
Thank you,
Christine
Hi Christine,
Thank you so much for writing down the original recipe here! I just lost it after I changed the amounts to make this one.
Cheers!
This recipe changed! It used to be an awesome recipe. Now it has too much baking powder and curry was added. What happened to the old recipe?
Hi Erica,
Thanks for this comment. I’ve noticed that I made a mistake about the measurements while updating the recipe. I’ve corrected it now. As for the curry powder, I just wanted to give the wings some nice flavour but it’s completely optional.
I began searching for crispy, baked wings for the Super Bowl and this is the first recipe I saw. Perfect! I am going to make this recipe. Thank you! Go Dirty Birds! (Atlanta Falcons) no pun intended….. 🙂
Thank you. Good to know.
Just curious, if I’m going to use my favorite BBQ sauce can I omit some of the seasonings and just use baking powder and salt?
Hi Mimi, the spices are optional. You will have a great result as long as you use baking powder and salt.
Thank you so much for making the video. I’m terrible at the kitchen but when there’s a video involved, I always find the courage to try it. Wish me luck!! xx
Did this recipe change recently? I have made it several time, but following these directions, the coating isn’t near what it used to be. Also, it didn’t have curry before. Do you have a link to the previous/original recipe?
Hi Shawna, sorry, I made a mistake while updating the recipe. I’ve corrected it now. Curry powder is optional, so you can just leave it out if you don’t like it.
Good but WAY TOO SALTY!!! Maybe decrease the salt by 1/4…?
Sooo. I followed the directions and the sauce only covered 4 wings…
instead of foil, can i bake them on a wire rack so that I do not have to flip them halfway through? Thanks!
I find it less messy to bake it using foil or baking paper, but I think baking on a wire rack works fine too. And yes, you don’t need to flip them this way.
Can i put the all the spice and let it sit for couple hour and then bake them?
This sounds so good! Buffalo wings are my favorite and I can ever get them crispy enough without making them like fried chicken! Thanks for sharing, I can’t wait to try these 🙂
These were absolutely delicious and tasted fried! This is going in my rotation as the whole family loved it! Thank you!
Image these wings tonight and the were delicious! The best wings I ever had. They were easy to make, too. I did make a dipping sauce to go with them, with butter, real maple syrup, and Frank’s Hot Sauce, which was a great acompliment to the wings. My husband and I plan on having them again. Kudos on this recipe!
Hi Marily! So happy to hear that you loved the recipe. No need for frying or grilling wings any longer as these are really good yet simple. And your dipping sauce sounds amazing!
Is the mixture supposed to be watery or kinda dry?
Hi Priscilla, it is not a watery mixture.
Wow, outstanding thanks
★★★★★
Can you do this with frozen wings? We put frozen wings on the grill and they’re great. It’s too cold to grill now so I’m just wondering if we could bake these from frozen. Thanks! Sounds delicious!
Well, never tried it with frozen wings. But I guess you can bake them, maybe at a higher degree. Would love to hear the result if you try.
trying these right now, in the oven as we speak. Can’t wait to eat them!!
Baking powder!, Who would have thought.. I have been trying to come up with a recipe to bake wings instead of frying and still have them turn out crispy. Trying to cut back a bit on the grease/fat/cals. Will certainly give this a shot the next time I make wings.
Baking powder is magical, isn’t it? You’ll be amazed when you try.