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    Home » Recipes » Chicken Appetizers

    Honey Lime Buffalo Wings for Your Next Get Together

    Published: Jan 29, 2012 · Modified: Feb 21, 2022 by Chef Dennis Littley

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    It’s party time with Honey Lime Buffalo Wings.

    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 every day they would eat them. My girls love their hot sauce!

    honey lime buffalo wings with blue cheese dressing and celery sticks on a black plate on a multi colored table cloth

    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.

    honey lime buffalo wings with blue cheese dressing and celery sticks on a black plate on a multi colored table cloth

    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 used 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!)

    original Buffalo Wings

    Now if you’re 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!

    If you love chicken wings as much as I do I know you’ll enjoy these recipes:

    • Drunken Chicken Wings
    • Chinese Sticky Wings
    • Honey Lime Buffalo Wings
    • Garlic Ginger Chicken Wings

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    Table of Contents:

    • Honey Lime Buffalo Wings
      • Ingredients
        • Buffalo Wing Sauce
        • Bleu Cheese Dressing
      • Instructions
        • Chicken Wings
        • Buffalo Hot Sauce
        • Blue Cheese Dressing
        • Finish
      • Notes
      • Nutrition

    Honey Lime Buffalo Wings

    What’s a Party without Buffalo wings! Try my new Honey Lime buffalo wings, or my already famous wing recipe and make your next get together extra special!
    Prep Time10 minutes mins
    Cook Time15 minutes mins
    Total Time25 minutes mins
    Course: Appetiser
    Cuisine: American
    Servings: 8
    Calories: 742kcal
    Author: Chef Dennis Littley

    Ingredients

    • 3 lbs Chicken wings fresh not frozen
    • 2 cups flour
    • sea Salt and Pepper to taste
    • 1 cup cooking oil vegetable oil

    Buffalo Wing Sauce

    • 12 oz Cholula Lime Hot Sauce
    • 1 ½ Stick Butter
    • 4 oz Honey

    Bleu Cheese Dressing

    • 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
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    Instructions

    • Pre-Heat oven to 250 degrees

    Chicken Wings

    • 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.

    Buffalo Hot Sauce

    • 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.*

    Blue Cheese Dressing

    • 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.

    Finish

    • 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!

    Notes

    *For the recipe if you are making more wings the ratio is 2 parts hot sauce, 1 part butter, and ½ part honey, this amount of hot sauce will do about 48 pieces of wings.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 742kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 27g | Fat: 53g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Cholesterol: 119mg | Sodium: 1938mg | Potassium: 374mg | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 630IU | Vitamin C: 32.7mg | Calcium: 211mg | Iron: 2.8mg
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    1. Kiri W.

      January 31, 2012 at 7:46 am

      Now those are some wings! 🙂 Looks delicious, and I bet there’s a great balance between the honey sweetness and the lime zing.

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    2. Liz

      January 31, 2012 at 6:39 am

      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!

      Reply
    3. anna

      January 30, 2012 at 6:24 pm

      yummm wings are my favorite! and just in time for the super bowl thanks!

      Reply
    4. Emily @ Life on Food

      January 30, 2012 at 1:34 pm

      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.

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    5. Mei-i@gastronomic nomad

      January 30, 2012 at 12:56 pm

      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.

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      • Chef D

        January 30, 2012 at 5:42 pm

        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.

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    6. Culinary Cache

      January 30, 2012 at 12:18 pm

      5 stars
      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!

      Reply
    7. Megan @ Pip and Ebby

      January 30, 2012 at 11:50 am

      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..

      Reply
    8. Steve @ the black peppercorn

      January 30, 2012 at 11:50 am

      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?

      Reply
      • Chef D

        January 30, 2012 at 5:31 pm

        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!

        Reply
    9. Amanda

      January 30, 2012 at 11:03 am

      5 stars
      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!

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      • Chef D

        January 30, 2012 at 6:31 pm

        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!

        Reply
    10. Marsha @ The Harried Cook

      January 30, 2012 at 10:35 am

      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!

      Reply
    11. Larry

      January 30, 2012 at 10:14 am

      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.

      Reply
      • Chef D

        January 30, 2012 at 5:43 pm

        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.

        Reply
    12. Dara

      January 30, 2012 at 9:08 am

      These wings look fabulous. I am hosting a Superbowl party (go Pats!) and am looking for a good wing recipe. Well done.

      Reply
    13. Jamie

      January 30, 2012 at 8:21 am

      It still looks pretty darn delicious! And love your blue cheese sauce recipe! Delicious, game or no game!

      Reply
    14. Tina@flourtrader

      January 30, 2012 at 6:04 am

      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!

      Reply
    15. Baking Serendipity

      January 29, 2012 at 10:50 pm

      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!

      Reply
    16. Marce

      January 29, 2012 at 10:02 pm

      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!

      Reply
    17. Joan Hayes@chocolate and more

      January 29, 2012 at 10:01 pm

      Dennis, these look and sound awesome, hubby will love these! Pinning!

      Reply
    18. Cooking Lady

      January 29, 2012 at 10:00 pm

      Wow Chef, these wings look really great. A must try for the game. Thanks for sharing

      Reply
    19. Anna

      January 29, 2012 at 9:49 pm

      5 stars
      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!

      Reply
      • Chef D

        January 29, 2012 at 10:02 pm

        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!

        Reply
    20. The Mom Chef ~ Taking on Magazines One Recipe at a Time

      January 29, 2012 at 9:39 pm

      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).

      Reply
      • Chef D

        January 29, 2012 at 9:45 pm

        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!!

        Reply
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