How Chinese Chef Cooks BBQ Char Siu Chicken Wings in Air Fryer

Sizzling hot wings. Delicious Hi, everybody. Welcome back to my channel Cantonese food recipes I'm Andrew and today I'll be showing you guys how to make some char siu air fryer char siu chicken wings Very tasty barbecue chicken wings out of the air fryer Over here I've got about 12 chicken wings over here cleaned Nicely cleaned. So yeah, I'll show you guys how to make them now. Okay, let's get cooking. Okay guys So here is 12 chicken wings Now I'll be showing you guys how to marinate these chicken wings for the char siu air fryer Barbecue chicken wings. Yeah, let's marinate. Okay. First, I'm gonna add in one teaspoon of salt Next I'm gonna sprinkle some white pepper Okay, next No quarter of a teaspoon of chicken bouillon powder We are not adding no sugar into this because when we're air frying and when there's sugar The chicken wings will burn up very quickly Since we're going to be making a glaze to glaze the chicken wings and that contains a lot of sugar You won't be marinating the chicken wings with any sort of sugar guys before this video continues I would like to thank everyone for subscribing to my youtube channel it has hit 70k subscribers, which I'm very happy and We are on target to reach 100k by the end of 2024 So I'd like to thank everyone for subscribing and liking and commenting on my videos It really means a lot to to me and it also supports my life and my family. So thanks guys for Tuning in. Let's continue cooking. Okay next a little drizzle of oyster sauce. I think oyster sauce have a tiny bit of sugar, but not that much just a little bit is enough It will drizzle all around chicken wings. Okay, next a good drizzle of soy sauce That's one drizzle. Give it two drizzles And next you gotta have some Chinese rice wine There you go, good drizzle of sesame oil And a good amount of olive oil Just like that, maybe a little bit more because we're air frying and we need that oil Okay, now we're gonna mix these chicken wings up. Give it a good mix Okay, once you give it a good mix We're gonna add in some cornstarch to thicken up the sauce. Go check how much sauce you have in the bowl over here It's quite a lot. So maybe I'm gonna be adding in two heaped Tablespoons of cornstarch to thicken the sauce so that the sauce will stick on to the chicken wings for the marination Adding two heaped teaspoon Tablespoons here Mix And it will also prevent, you know while you're air frying the chicken wings, you'll prevent all that Good sauce from dripping out of the chicken wings here So yeah, that's that's what cornstarch can do for the wings Very quick and easy simple recipe you guys can make delicious barbecue Chicken wings. Okay, you can see it's still a bit saucy off the two Heaped Tablespoons of cornstarch. It's fine like this. We're just gonna be marinating it We don't need so much sauce to stick on to the chicken wings Okay, I'm just gonna clean wrap this and leave it in the fridge overnight to marinate well, if you in a rush you can marinate for one hour and then Get and make you can pop these into the airfryer. Okay Okay guys, so here are the 12 wings it has been marinated in my fridge for about two days Didn't have the time to cook them straight away. But anyways two days is still fine You just need to mix it up Mix it up and get all that flavor fused back on to the chicken wings before We pop it into our airfryer over here Let's just give this a quick mix. Okay, let's pop all our wings into the airfryer here Airfryer placed it on tinfoil I'm first going to pop all the wings by this side not from the base area of the wing just this side It's just gonna layer it nicely all over the tinfoil over here Okay, nice just exactly 12 wings can fit into my airfryer Now I'm gonna pop these into the airfryer at 180 degrees or 360 degree Fahrenheit or 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. Then we'll flip it around Okay, while the wings are airfrying let me show you my Char siu glaze. First, I'm gonna add in 3 teaspoons of sugar I'm gonna drizzle some oyster sauce all around Okay, then we're gonna drizzle some honey all around Lastly we're gonna add in some Lee Kum Kee char siu sauce over here I'm just adding two teaspoons. Let's just make it three Okay, now we're just gonna mix this up I'm not gonna add in no soy sauce because soy sauce is salty We want that sweet kind of barbecue flavor Just give that a quick mix Then once the chicken wings are air fried nicely, then we will coat it and then we'll air fry it again Okay, 10 minutes is up, let's check out these wings Okay, looking good. Let's flip it around Okay, let's pop them in for another 10 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius Okay guys after 10 minutes Check these out. Okay, they're looking good. You can see a lot of the blood parts of the chicken wing is cooked. So Basically, the wings inside is already nice and juicy If you heat it at 200 degrees, you've got to get like kind of like dry wings But now at 180 degrees, it's very juicy. Okay. Now we're going to Just mix up our sauce over here We're gonna give the wings a good glaze And let's glaze the wings over here We're gonna glaze it and then we're gonna give it a good air fry Just remember that this is sugar. This glaze is a lot of sugar. So Let's also Watch temperature when we are air frying these wings or else it will burn the chicken wings You don't want that. Nice delicious char siu barbecue wings. You can see that color of that char siu over here. Oh Yeah Okay, just glaze this side first. Let it air fry just for the sauce to melt onto the wings Okay, let's heat this at 180 degrees for 3 minutes Okay, let's check these wings Can you see that? Give it a close-up here Wow, look at that color. Let's flip these wings around and give it a quick glaze again Okay, let's glaze the wings again You want that sugary char siu Sauce to stick onto the wings after we air fry it. We're gonna do a final air fry We're gonna heat it for 5 minutes. Then we'll take this out Okay, let's check the wings out. Wow sizzling hot wings. Let's plate them You don't want to leave these wings in the air fryer Whilst it will continue to cook and the juiciness of the wings will It won't become juicy anymore Become dry if you just leave them inside the air fryer. Nice barbecue Barbecue wings over here Okay, let's check these out Wow Just barbecue char siu chicken wings Very quick and easy recipe. Okay guys, let's give these wings a try Guys, here are my wings. Check that out Wow Hmm delicious Okay, let's give these wings a try Let's check that out Hmm barbecue char siu chicken wings. Look at the color Nice Let's give this a try Hmm The chicken wings were marinated for two days All that flavor went into the chicken wings and then now you coat it with that sugary Barbecue char siu sauce that we just made. Damn, you get two two tastes in this chicken wings. So delicious guys Thanks guys for watching and yeah, don't forget to like this video. Thanks guys