Crispy and Sticky Honey Chipotle Chicken Wings

All right, folks. Listen, I'm going to get right into it. Listen, I done made wings all kind of ways, but if you didn't know they was going to be this simple and look this good, and I don't have to talk about the taste, you guys are going to come back and let me know. Today, we making honey chipotle chicken wings. And guess what, folks? We going to do them in the air fryer. Okay, so listen, I try to make it as simple as possible, right? What I do is I pre-measure all of my ingredients, right? I'm not going to try to over talk this. I just want you guys to know when you do it that way, it makes sense, right? So, I'm going to show you and give you an example. Now that I have everything, now when I move over to my next step, I took three of my spices, my baking powder, you know what I mean? Uh, my salt, my pepper, I bring this here, and I know all this has to go in here, right? So, what we're going to do is we're going to take it, just dump it in here, right? You going to want to get yourself a whisk. Now, because I had done this, you know, prior to when I'm setting up, you know, the film, you know, they kind of dry out, right? So, sometime they lump up. You guys want to be careful when you especially when you're using uh brown sugar, right? So, we do it like that. I got my hot soapy water over here. Now, I'm going to just grind this a little bit. I like to have that coarse, you know, ground fresh pepper. Super easy, folks. Then, when you're done here, you can grind to your heart is content, right? Then I like to take some coarse, this is kosher salt. I just take this and give this a couple of pinches. And I just leave it just like that. You don't want to use a whole lot of You don't want to use a whole lot of salt, right? So, we monitoring that. So, if you look right here, you know what I mean? Uh, we just get our whisk and we just work this together just like this. And this is what we going to go ahead and put on our chicken. Right now, don't forget the full ingredient list is on my website. That's smoking and grillingwithab.com and that's witab.com. Right? You guys go there, find out what you want to eat with the uh wings, you know, and things of that nature. Now, I'm going to set this right here. I'm going to grab my big bowl. Right now, we got this right here with the chicken in it. I've already washed, clean, patted, dry, and did everything I could to get it as dry as possible. Right. So, before we do that, I want to keep one hand clean cuz this is going to be the hand that I'm going to hit all of my spice, you know, all of my seasoning with. We don't want nothing sticking, right? So, I'm going to go ahead and just add a little bit of this extra virgin olive oil. And this is from Branch and Vine Upland. You guys, uh, I talk about it, rave about it all the time. You want to get yourself some. They make all kind of infused olive oils. No matter if it's, uh, let's see, scallion, man. They got so many, you know, I mean, I need to print out a list, but I use the scallion, you know, I mean, the rosemary, you know, thyme, all of that right there. That's good. Now, this is what we going to do. You see these right here? I'mma drop some of these in here like this. Remember my dry hand? Take that. Now I'm just get ready to come over the top. Right. The reason I'm doing this because I got a lot of wings. So it's best for me to do it a little bit like this. And we still going to give it all a toss anyway. So I'll just keep adding this until I get all of these completely seasoned. Okay. So as you can see there, no matter which way I put it right here, this is the way you want it to be seasoned, right? So when it's seasoned like this, you know that you going to have some great tasting, you know, wings. This is going to be the base, right? And then by us doing it early, it let allows it to get past that skin and get into the flesh of the meat. We're going to preheat to 400° and get that going. Right. So, let's go ahead and preheat now. All right. So, listen. I've already preheated. Right. This part real simple. I just want to show you this part right here, too. Look, I got some spray avocado oil. You know, I'm trying to use this more so than I use the Pam. If you guys can get yourself some of this, you know what I mean? Get it. Buy yourself at least two cans cuz it goes kind of quick. So, I'm using this as my nonstick, right? Even though that my air fryer, right, is already nonstick. We just spray it. Leave it just like that. Okay. So, now we preheated our sprayed, right? So, what we want to do is we going to lay a add a layer, right? So, I'm going to go ahead and just lay it this way. Now, we going to flip these halfway through, right? So, I'm going to start with the top side up. You know, you can do it however you want to. I guess it really doesn't matter. You know what I mean? I don't know why I put so much emphasis on that. You know what I mean? Let's just get them in here. And then we just going to flip them. How's that? And then what we going to do is we going to set a timer. We going to get it all set up. 400°. We going to do it for about 25 minutes. Right. And look, halfway through. I'm going to go 13 minutes on one, 12 on the other. All right. So, let's get this inside here and let's go. Okay. So, look. This is what I want to show you. You guys see these right here? I done moved past. I got some that's already done right here. Right now, we going to flip these over. And when you doing wings, listen. It's the fat, the natural grease, and everything that's inside of there. That's what helps them cook and fry them. Right. So, what I'm doing now is I'm just turning them over. All right. So, listen. My timer just went off. Let's take them out. Let's look at Look at that right there, folks. I know it ain't right. I'mma hold this like this so you guys can see. You can see that color, right? So, I'm going to bring this over here like this. Make sure we don't make no mess. We just drop these in here like that. Right now, I doubled the recipe. When you guys go there, double the recipe if you going to be doing something cuz look, now we starting to fill up. Right now, I done cleaned up, made room to bring my, you know, my burner in. Right. So, this is what we going to do. I'm going to go ahead. Let's go ahead and start with like a a medium low, you know, heat. Right. So, that's the fire that I'm using. Now, what I want to do is I'm going to come with my extra virgin olive oil. This is uh garlic infused. Now, I got several of these. So, this is garlic infused. So, I'm going to go ahead and just put in uh we'll just say a couple tablespoons. Right. Okay. So, as we bringing that oil, right, we bringing up our olive oil and it's coming up to temp. Remember, it's a low temp. Right now be a good time for us to go ahead and take some of this, you know, chipotle and adobo sauce. Right? cuz we going to go ahead and mince this. Right. We want to get some of them flavor, you know, some of the juices in here with it, too. This is what's going to do it. Right now, it's up to you how much you guys put in here. Right here. Some of y'all going to ask me right off the bat like, "Hey, is it hot?" Nope. It is not. You want to get yourself a sharp knife and then we going to go to town with it. Right. So, I'm looking at that. I don't see any smoke. So, we good. Remember, we start out on low anyway. So, what I'm doing now is just mincing this down. All right. So once you got everything, you know, diced down like how you would like it. I did like really like a fine mince, right? So I can see this. It look like it's ready to, you know, give me a little bit puff back. So now what I want to do is I want to put my minced garlic in the inside of here, right? So I don't want to stop moving this, right? We just want to remember medium low, right? So I'mma just keep, you know, stirring, not letting it settle, right? Only about 30 seconds in, then you want to start adding the rest of your ingredients, right? So, we going to start with our honey. Oh, yeah. Look at that. All right. Give you guys a little bit of a heads up that I learned from one of the uh my subscribers. Like several people had told me this too also. I wish I had the names. They were telling me that if you spray your if you measuring out your honey and you spray your bowl with some what? Some Pam or something nonstick, it'll help everything just, you know, pull out. Now that we starting to come up, I can start to see some of the bubbles. We coming up on a simmer. I'm going to go ahead and add my adobo. Oh yeah. Just imagine the flavors, folks. [Music] Now I get back in here with my spatula. You know what I mean? And we just want to keep working this around. Now what I want to do is bring it up to a simmer. Then we're going to let it simmer for about I'm going to say about 3 to 4 minutes, right? All right. So it look like this is more than just a simmer, but that's just the way it is when you have honey. You know, I mean, the honey just kind of like bubbles up and kind of like foams, right? So I look back down in my flame. I've adjusted this down to as low as possible. Right? And we going to go just I'm going say four minutes. Then I'm going just turn it off and it'll thicken up. You know what I mean? And uh then we put that on top. We toss and then we eat. Trust me, you going to want to try these. Now we got them there. Listen, we got our sauce. You don't want to make your sauce. You don't want to like cook it down and render it down so it's so thick that it won't be able to get over everything. Right. So if I take this like this and I pour this. Look at this right here. You see that right there? We Now, we might not even have to toss this cuz we got so much. But I'm going to go ahead and mix these around anyway. You see that right there? Yes, sir. Now, you see that's it right there. Look, no makeup, no nothing. She raw. She come out looking just like this. Right. If you guys like anything that's like uh crispy, sweet, sticky, and it come a finger food too, like these drumsticks right here and these uh party wings, you guys let me know in the comment section below. What would you do? Now, I'm going to go ahead and get my napkin early this time. You know what I mean? Cuz listen, they are sticky. I got gloves on. That's cool. So, listen. If you going to have these out for your friends, why don't you go ahead and invest in some wet wipes, wet wipes. So, that'll like help you out. You know what I mean? So, everybody don't, you know how they come to your house and do whatever. Listen, I'm not going to over talk it or nothing like that. We going to take this. You see that right there? Bam. Cheers, y'all. Oh, yeah. Hey, these right here is fire. Now, my disclaimer is I'm doing them in the air fryer. You know what I mean? I know we sprayed a little bit of that avocado oil on there, but don't forget that's the happy the more healthier uh of the oils, right? So, I did that, but we didn't, you know, deep fry them. You guys can deep fry them. You can do them in the oven. When you go to my website, I'm going to have it on there so you can find whatever means necessary for you to do them. You know what I mean? But it's all about that sauce and flipping them. And if you got an air fryer, let's go ahead and break them out, knock the dust off of it, and let's start cooking. Now, if you're new to my channel, let me take this time to say thank you for watching this video. Don't forget to like, smash that subscribe button, and tell everybody out there's a channel out here that's simplifying these recipes and taking the mystery out of cooking. You know how I do. I'm out. Peace. [Music] [Music]