During the summer I received a gift box of Cholula hot sauces in the mail, they were completely unsolicited and no promises were made….sigh, and its a good thing there weren’t because I finally got around to using them this week. Now as everyone knows I do make some killer buffalo wings, they have even achieved legendary status at the Mount where I truly believe If I served them everyday they would eat them. My girls love their hot sauce!
And there my friends lies the secret in making great buffalo wings, its the sauce. I have to admit while I was a little excited to try a new flavor hot sauce, I was also a little reluctant to forgo my original perfected sauce. But change is good, and just in case it wasn’t good I wanted an opportunity to try it out on just Lisa and myself before I served it to my guests on Superbowl Sunday.
The first thing I noticed was that the sauce did not cling quite as well, and it just didn’t seem to thicken the way I was use to. The lime flavor was interesting, but not really what I was looking for in my hot wings, although I know a few of my friends would love them with that hint of lime flavor. I will admit that the flavor was fresh and not at all artificial tasting. So if your looking for a new buffalo wing sauce give it a try with the Cholula Lime Hot sauce, they also have a garlic hot sauce that will be my next test batch! (just not at the superbowl party!)
Now if your looking for the Best Buffalo Wings you’ll ever have, then give this recipe a try and make sure to use Franks Buffalo Sauce to start with, I promise you won’t be disappointed, of course if you like your wings on the Atomic Heat Scale, feel free to add additional hot sauce to the recipe!
- 20-24 wings in a club size pack
- 2 cups flour
- sea Salt and Pepper
- 1 cup cooking oil (canola or soy)
- 12 oz Franks Buffalo Wing Sauce or Cholula Lime Hot Sauce
- 1½ Stick Butter
- 4 oz Honey
- 8 oz Bleu Cheese
- 1 cup sour cream or Greek Yogurt
- 1 cup Mayonnaise
- ¼ cup milk or buttermilk
- ¼ teaspoon granulated onion
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- Pre-Heat oven to 250 degrees
- rinse and pat dry your wings
- Cut the wings at both joints, saving the wing tip for soup(freeze until needed)
- season 2 cups of flour liberally with salt and pepper
- dredge the wings in the flour to get a good coating on the wings.
- heat 1 cup of oil in a deep frying pan
- add wings in batches, do not crowd them or it they will take too long to cook
- Cook wings 4-5 minutes on each side until they get good color and and a crunchy exterior
- Remove wings from oil, draining excess oil from them and place on cookie sheet in oven to keep them warm while you finish cooking the remainder
- Repeat process until all the wings have been cooked.
- In a sauce pan add butter and honey, and allow butter to completely melt, then add in the hot sauce. (Here is the tricky part, you want to get the sauce almost to point of boiling, but do not let it boil, or get too hot. If the sauce gets too hot it will begin to separate) By not over heating the sauce it will stay rich and thick and give the wings a wonderful coating.*
- In a food processor, add the sour cream or Greek yogurt, the milk and half of your bleu cheese.
- Pulse the mixture until all of the bleu cheese has been blended in.
- Now add it to your mayonnaise, and the remaining bleu cheese crumbled up and season. (The seasonings are just a guide, season it to your taste.)
- You should make this dressing at least one day ahead of time, to let the flavors build, but you can use it right away if you need to.
- Toss the wings in a stainless steel bowl with your prepared sauce until well coated and serve immediately with blue cheese dressing and celery sticks!
Just a couple hints about buying wings, always start with fresh wings, if not when you cook them the bones will be black…..we call that black bone in the business….lol, it’s not Rocket Science people! Anyway from now on that’s how you will be able to tell if the wings you’re eating were fresh or frozen. As for Bleu Cheese dressing, while there’s a lot to be said for making your own, if time is limited there are a lot of great brands of blue cheese dressing available, just make sure you get one of the refrigerated varieties, they have much better flavor!
Just think about all the money you’ll save by making your own, and once you see how easy it is to make great buffalo wings you’ll be making them all the time, amazing your friends and family!
I don’t know if you remember, but a few months ago I told you about a new venture I had been asked to be part of. Well we ran into all sorts of logistical problems with this world wide venture, but finally were ready to roll it out, a little late but well worth the wait! While I can’t disclose it on my blog right now, Monday Morning at 10:00 am EST, I will begin tweeting, and posting about the endeavor, so get ready for some pretty exciting news! I can use all the re-tweets and re-posts you can give me once this goes public so any help will be appreciated…. So Stay tuned for the news!
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What a bummer that the the sauce didn’t turn out as you hoped and expected. I love wings and would be very disappointed. Looks are deceiving though because the appear absolutely delicious (and your blue cheese dressing sounds amazing).
they were good, not just not as good as my regular recipe, you can see how the sauce just looks thicker and richer….but we still ate them all!!
I can’t even begin to tell you how many times my Hubby asked me to make him hot wings.. It’s one of those intimidating things to me. I will try your recipe – so fingers crossed! Thank you so much, Chef!
They’re really not difficult Anna, but I would recommend the original recipe using Franks Buffalo Sauce instead of the honey lime, he will devour them!
Wow Chef, these wings look really great. A must try for the game. Thanks for sharing
Dennis, these look and sound awesome, hubby will love these! Pinning!
OMG! I was craving something like these, I came to the pc to search any recipe online and you had the response just here at my desktop, I felt like you could read my mind, thanks!
I love exciting news! And while I’m a hot sauce wuss, my husband would love these wings and so would everyone else at our Super Bowl party
Definitely another hit!
Like you, I do want my wings to have a thick sauce. If it doesn’t stick, it might as well be a dipping sauce. I love trying new wing recipes, so I am adding this one to the group.
Looking forward to hearing more about the new venture!
It still looks pretty darn delicious! And love your blue cheese sauce recipe! Delicious, game or no game!
These wings look fabulous. I am hosting a Superbowl party (go Pats!) and am looking for a good wing recipe. Well done.
As it happens I am looking for a great wing sauce so this will be tried soon. They also look as good as they sound.
Stay with the regular recipe and I promise you won’t be disappointed. It’s not super hot so if you like really hot food you might want to crank it up just a bit more.
Honey & Lime is such a fantastic flavor combination! I bet this tastes incredible… I would love to try this recipe out… Thank you, Chef Dennis!
I made the original version of these wings (not the honey lime) for the Super Bowl last year and they were a huge hit! They were my first attempt at making homemade buffalo wings and only found the recipe by browsing through google. I never saved the recipe, and I’m so glad I was just able to find it again because I am definitely making them again. They are so good and not hard to make…you all need to try them!
I’m glad you enjoyed my sauce, it really is tasty! I think that’s why I didn’t enjoy the honey lime as much, its just hard to beat that sauce!
Thanks for stopping by!
With wings, you are absolutely right, it is all about the sauce. I use franks in my buffalo sauce! So are you gonna watch the game? Who are you cheering for?
absolutely I will be watching the game…it’s been a long dry spell for my Cowboys…sigh, I will be rooting for the underdog Giants, Brady has enough rings already!
I just forwarded your link to my husband because he LOVES wings, he LOVES cholula and he LOVES perfecting his recipe. Thanks so much for this! I have a very good feeling that we will be making wings on super bowl Sunday now..
What a great flavor combination for chicken wings, these looks delicious! Looking forward to game day we always make loads of wings, this recipe is a definite!
These wings look DIVINE!! The only reason to attend a Superbowl party is for wings! Where can I buy Franks hot sauce? I agree it is all in the sauce. You’ve been BUZZED.
They sell it everywhere in the states but I’m thinking your somewhere else. You’ll just have to wing it (pardon the pun) with the sauce, and type of flavorful tobasco sauce will work, the reason I like franks is it has a few other ingredients that make it tasty and not just hot. let me know if you make them.
You cannot beat homemade buffalo sauce. My husband makes the best and I won’t eat anything at restaurants any more. Right now we have to take a break for some health issues on his side. It would be a bit cruel to have it around when he cannot eat the hot stuff. Rest assured though once he is back up to par we will be trying out this recipe.
these buffalo wings look amazing! definitely bookmarking these!
yummm wings are my favorite! and just in time for the super bowl thanks!
Your wings look perfect! They may not be your absolute favorite, but I bet they’re still darn tasty! Can’t wait for your announcement…I’m sure congratulations will be in order
PS. Congrats on the Top 9!
Now those are some wings!
Looks delicious, and I bet there’s a great balance between the honey sweetness and the lime zing.
These are perfect for the superbowl party. I wish I could have some for lunch today. Just so pretty. Congrats on Foodbuzz top 9 today!
Great combo of flavors for these wings. They look perfect!
Nom nom nom…we love Cholula. Bet Cholula Lime rocks it!
Congrat’s again on the top 9. I see your face there frequently and with what I see in your recipes it’s well deserved. I am a BIG Cholula fan but have never tried it in a wing sauce. Frank’s is my all time go to for buffalo wings because it has great pepper flavor and low heat comparatively. I’m with you also on the whole “change” thing (reluctant as I am) But I try not to break things that aren’t broken and great buffalo wings are a beautiful thing! Congrat’s again!
Thanks! I love lime and thought it might make my wings even better, and while it was good the original recipe with franks is so much better with the wings
Those look awesome! I love the honey-lime. What a lovely combination that must be. I am SO looking forward to the superbowl
You can’t watch the superbowl w/o wings! These look amazing!
Dennis, if I ate wings and wasn’t vegetarian I would be all over these
! They sound wonderful, and honey lime is such a great combination! Congrats on the Top 9, well deserved 
!
My husband and I love wings, I can not wait to try this recipe
My original recipe is the best, the lime version is a nice change, but you’ll always go back to the original, or my famous as my girls call it!
Chef, you should go to jail for that last picture.Charged with appetite torture
amazing wings…
Must try.
congrats on top 9. what a smart review of the Cholula sauce Chef! and this recipe is a keeper. i read thru it and drooled quite a bit ;p
The wings look good, sorry they didn’t turn out the way you like them. I do a similar sauce as you, but I like to add a bit of garlic and some sriracha to mine. That and I like to grill them in my Big Green Egg.
those sound incredible! I like grilling mine too, they just don’t get as crunchy that way.
No superbowl out this way, but I’d go for spicy lime wings any day!
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First off just curious how many of you guys are actually from buffalo or have ever visited? Either way the only real way to make some wings is with franks hot sauce. They have to be crispy fried 6 to 8 mins hot BBQ is the best combo ya can’t beat it