This Honey Buffalo Chicken Wings recipe is stunningly crispy and flavorful (baked, not fried.) A couple of secret ingredients boost the crispiness of these finger-licking great chicken wings. This buffalo wings sauce is amazing!
Happy happy birthday to my Biggest Little. 🎈🎁
Actually, his birthday was last week and he’s not so little. At age 14, he’s five inches taller than me and growing. The kid’s sneakers are as big as his dad’s and his appetite is even bigger.
His favorite things include soccer, this bluetooth speaker, knowing more than me, and buffalo chicken wings. The know-it-all thing will probably [hopefully] come to a humble end upon adulthood, but the buffalo wings obsession might be permanent.
For his birthday, he requested a DQ style ice cream cake and Honey Sriracha Chicken Buffalo Chicken Wings. Specifically these chicken wings, he said.
And only this buffalo wings sauce, please. Nobody could blame him for the delicious request, and I gladly obliged…
How to make crispy buffalo chicken wings in the oven
You truly can have a crispy batch of chicken wings that are oven-baked and not fried.
I’ve seen several tricks, but my personal favorite hacks are:
- Thoroughly dry every single chicken wing. Singular, because you literally take paper towels to each piece of chicken and remove as much moisture as you possibly can. This works nearly just as well as the chilling/air drying method and is just way faster.
- I use a combination of baking powder and corn starch in the dry rub. We add those two ingredients to just the right mixture of simple spices. Then we let them do The Twist with the chicken before baking.
These simple techniques create a flavorful and crispy batch of oven-baked chicken wings. They’re so good at this point, we could just devour all the crispy wings now and call it done.
But let’s say you wanted continue on with the awesome sauce…
How to make buffalo wings sauce
Of course, the good stuff is in the sauce. Everyone knows the sauce is what makes buffalo wings so finger-licking great. We’ve done buffalo wings using all kinds of sauce variations, including classic Frank’s Red Hot.
While all variations are yummy in their own right, our all time favorite secret is Sriracha hot chili sauce. It’s made with sun-ripened chilies, ground into a paste with garlic. We use up bottles of Sriracha like wild. Case in point: These BBQ Sriracha Ribs are spectacular and this Honey Lime Shrimp with Sriracha boasts stunning flavors.
For our Honey Sriracha Buffalo Chicken Wings sauce, the team players include pure honey, butter, soy sauce, and Sriracha. The sauce is so awesome, you’ll be rightfully temped to use it on everything from here on forth.
Here’s to the daily gig of feeding teens who are growing full tilt.
And all the buffalo chicken wings it may involve.
Enjoy 😊
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Honey Sriracha Buffalo Chicken Wings (Crispy Baked!)
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 45 mins
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: about 6-8 as a side 1x
- Category: appetizers, side dish
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Honey Sriracha Buffalo Chicken Wings recipe is stunningly crispy and flavorful. Plus, they’re oven baked, not fried! A couple of secret ingredients boost the crispiness of these finger-licking great chicken wings. This buffalo wings sauce is amazing!
Ingredients
- 3 lbs chicken wings, split, no tips
- 1 TB garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp fresh ground black pepper
- 1 tsp kosher/coarse salt
- 1 TB baking powder
- 1 TB corn starch
- For the Sauce:
- 5 TB butter
- ½ cup pure honey
- ¼ cup Sriracha (use less if you want it mild)
- 1 TB light soy sauce
- 2 tsp freshly squeezed lime juice
- Optional: freshly chopped parsley or chives or garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F, with rack on upper middle position. Line a large baking sheet with foil and generously grease the foil. Very thoroughly chicken wings with paper towels; take the time to dry each piece well, so that all excess moisture is removed.
- In a large Ziploc bag, combine garlic powder, pepper, salt, baking powder, and corn starch. Mix well. Add chicken wings, gently shaking to coat thoroughly.
- Place wings in single layer on foil lined baking sheet. Bake 45-50 minutes or until browned and crisp.
- While chicken is baking, make the sauce. In a small pot, melt butter. Add rest of sauce ingredients, constantly stirring, until mixture starts to bubble. Immediately remove from heat and set aside.
- Transfer baked wings to a large serving platter.
- When ready to serve, pour as much sauce as desired over wings, tossing to coat well. If desired, save some sauce for serving alongside of wings. Serve immediately while chicken is crisp.
Ways to use your bottle of Sriracha:
Asian Burgers with Sriracha Mayo
Honey Lime Shrimp with Sriracha
My husband loves buffalo wings! I’ll have to try this recipe soon. It sounds like the perfect date night snack. 🙂
Hope you all love it, Heather 🙂
Yummy! I love that they are baked and not fried, so I don;t real guilty eating 3 or 10.
More like 10, right?! 😉
Wow, although I do not eat it, but these chicken roasters look really delicious, I can and do not refuse to taste ☺️ And it seems not so hard to make
This looks amazing! I need to try this myself – i hope it’s not TOO spicy for me haha
Feel free to lower the spice amount to suit your desired heat level – enjoy! 🙂
These look absolutely delicious! Such a yummy dinner recipe
Oh my gosh, buffalo chicken is one of my favourite food items! I can’t wait to try out this recipe myself!
Wow, these look so good! I need to make a batch ASAP!
I guess that is the thing about wings. If you are a fan, you are a huge fan, so you better have a good recipe. If you aren’t a fan, you could really care less. I needed this recipe!
Just by looking at your first picture, it makes me hungry! The recipe looks incredibly delicious and mouthwatering! Sounds just perfect for family gathering or date nights!
This looks so cripsy and delicious! I will have to make it = it makes my mouth water! Yes!
Oh, this looks super yummy. I will definitely have to try this. I love trying new recipes!!
Awww happy birthday to your not-so-little little one! He has great taste! Buffalo chicken wings are a big hit in my household too. But we’re always open to new recipes. I’m super excited to try this – my husband will like some of the new ingredients here that I have yet to implement in our sauce. Yumm! Can’t wait. And happy birthday to your son! 🙂
Wow!! This Honey Buffalo Chicken Wings Crispy Baked looks really delicious. It makes me feels so hungry right now. Perfect for our family dinner this weekend. Will absolutely give this a try.
This looks like a lovely recipe for lover of buffalo wings. They aren’t for me as a veggie but the recipe looks easy to follow and a lovely choice for anyone wanting to try these. Great job.
I can’t wait to try these—in my air fryer!!! It’s my new fave toy after the instant pot. I also uploaded your recipe to my fave app: Paprika. Thank you also for the follow up recipes for the sriracha!!! I always have one or two ingredients left that I don’t like to waste so this is a great addition!
oh wow! I bet these had the right amount of tangy flavor in them! I love chicken wings but I love spicy ones more! These look perfect!
Oh my! I’d love to make this. I can almost taste it, literally. Thanks for sharing.
Honey Sriracha Buffalo Chicken Wings looks delicious! I am a vegetarian and would love to come up with a veggie variant to substitute the chicken with 🙂
Honey Sriracha Buffalo Chicken Wings looks and sounds so so delicious. In general, my family loves buffalo chicken wings and I am sure they are going to love these, cant wait to try this recipe myself. Love your pictures as always and recipe is so detailed, very helpful.
OMG. My bf loves honey buffalo wings. But somehow they are not made equally nice every single time. I’m gonna share this recipe with him to see if he likes it
I have a soft spot for honey buffalo wings! And great that it’s baked not fried because I don’t like fried food. Gonna check out if I can get sriracha sauce over in Singapore~
I love your recipes. It looks always tasty and you make wonderful pictures. I love chicken!
I’d love to try this, looks so good!
OMG, these sound so incredible! Do you think I could toss them in the dry rub and let them sit in the fridge for a few hours to get some work done in advance or will that put too much moisture back on them? I’m making several appetizers next Sunday and just want to get as much done ahead of time as possible. Thank you!
Julie, I think that could work, if you don’t leave them longer than a few hours. Also, I would leave them in a single layer, uncovered, if possible, to prevent accumulating moisture. Hope that helps; Enjoy!!
This is the first time I’ve given feedback on a recipe. This recipe is absolutely the best wing recipe I’ve ever tried!! Everything about it is amazing! The only tweak I made was adding just a pinch of corn starch to the sauce mix to thicken it up slightly. More as a personal preference though. Thank you for this recipe!
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That’s awesome, Mike!! Super happy to hear you all like these wings 🙂
Absolutely delicious. Followed recipe and turned out perfectly.
Outstanding! Thank you.
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Awesome, Marsha!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Good recipe, but I didn’t really like the butter sriracha and honey sauce. It felt like it was missing something, I remade the sauce without the butter and it turned out much better! It could just not be my taste but we really enjoyed this recipe regardless for dinner! Keep it up!