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Korean Spicy Chicken Wings Recipe

Total Time: 1 1/2 hours | Active Time: |

One of the most popular “Special Order” dishes from my former Korean Restaurant. These spicy wings are great as an appetizer, “finger food” on game days, or as a main dish with rice and ban chan.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 pound Sectioned chicken wings
  • 1/3 cup potato or corn starch
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon ground black pepper
  • Vegetable oil for deep frying

Stir Fry Sauce(per pound of chicken)

  • 2 tablespoons fine or medium ground red chili pepper
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons sugar, honey, or corn syrup
  • 1 tablespoon rice or cooking wine
  • 4 cloves peeled garlic
  • 1/2 inch peeled fresh ginger
  • 2 heaping tablespoons gochujang
  • water as needed to obtain a thin paste

Other ingredients

  • 1 green or spring onion
  • 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seed
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Prepare the chicken
    Rinse the wing pieces in cold water, then lightly salt and pepper them. Let stand about 10 to 15 minutes.
    Place wing sections in a large bowl and pour the milk over them, then place in refrigerator for about one hour, turning three to four times.
  2. Mix the Stir Fry sauce
    Place the ginger and garlic into a blender with just enough water to liquefy the mix.
    Pour into a small mixing bowl and add all other sauce ingredients.
    Mix well.
  3. Finely chop the green/spring onion and set aside.
  4. Cooking
    Discard the milk and let wing section drain until just damp.
    Heat oil in a large cooking pot. (350º or use the bread test)
    Roll (coat) wings in starch and deep fry until golden brown then drain.
    Transfer the chicken to a large stir fry pan or wok over medium to medium high heat, add the sauce, and stir fry until all liquid is gone.
  5. Place onto a serving tray and garnish with the green onion and sesame seed. Serve as an appetizer or with sticky rice and ban chan for a meal.

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  • Korean Spicy Chicken Wings Recipe
    5

    Will you marry me? THESE WERE FANTASTIC!! I made them last night and they disappeared instantly. I was the only one home. They were devoured by poltergeists. Kidding, I made'em for my nieces and nephews and I am the King of All Uncles now. This wouldn't be the kind of site it was if I didn't go "Oh, but I changed such-and-such to this-and-that" but I did do a few alterations and would also like to take this opportunity to spread a few tips: I didn't have any rice wine left because of a regular 'Namese Freakout I host, so I substituted regular wine. That didn't bite hard enough so I added a touch of red wine vinegar which gave it an awesome tang. I'm so happy to have good use for my gochujang which had previously been a middle-of-the-night finger-scoop weird guilty pain/pleasure thing. Not being a football fan at all and yet enduring a social circle filled with such nonsensical religion, I can't wait to do this wings throw-down (although, I actually used halved chicken tenders cuz I really don't like bones) when everyone gets together. Thank you so much for this recipe. It's the best thing I've made in MONTHS!! Oh, I would warn that you MUST shake all the extra corn starch off (I'd never done a corn-starch-only dredge) because the effluvia will char and stick to subsequent fried things. Man, this recipe rocks. Thank you so much.

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  • These are GREAT!! I made them tonight and my husband loved them. He declared them to be in the top five of his all time favorite wing flavors. I can believe this recipe was used in a restaurant! I will definitely make again.

  • I made these and they turned out excellent!! Thank you so much for the recipe.