Who doesn’t love wings? I love the endless types of sauces you can add to them, like buffalo (one of my faves) teriyaki and of course barbecue wings. I also love a sampling of wings where you get to mix it up (more on that later). These chicken wings are baked. There’s no need to deal with the mess of frying chicken wings when you can get out-of-the-oven crispy skin and of course, we all love less clean-up. I have found after research and testing that coating the wings in baking powder makes the skin crispy when you bake them.
How long does it take to bake chicken wings in the oven?
At 400°F, they crisp up nicely in about 40 minutes.
Baking tip for all around crispy wings
You want to make sure you end up with the crispiest wings possible, so I add the wings to a baking rack inside a baking sheet. This way the heat can circulate all around them and the bottoms get crispy too. These baked adobo chicken wings came about from my recent trip to Scottsdale Arizona over Easter weekend. While shopping in the supermarket, I noticed that they had a hot wing bar. My eyes just about popped out of my head. I had not had wings in ages and they had about 8 different types. How could I possibly decided? So I went for taste of each. I took my ‘sample’ of wings back to the hotel and I ‘tasted’ all of them. Since then, I’ve been craving wings that knew that I can make better myself, and I did!
I became obsessed with this adobo sauce when I recently made slow cooker pineapple pepper carnitas tacos which is the same sauce with added pineapple juice. You should check it out, it’s ah-mazing!
Baked Adobo Chicken Wings – Step by Step
The recipe starts with the sauce. Toast dried guajillo peppers in a dry pan to bring out their flavor.
Soak the peppers in boiling water to soften and rehydrate.
Blend the softened peppers with garlic, cumin, Mexican oregano, salt, agave and liquid from the reconstituted peppers.
Coat the chicken wings in seasoned baking powder and place on a rack in a baking sheet and bake for 40 minutes until crispy.
Pour the sauce over the crispy wings and coat well.
Adobo sauce spice level
The sauce is not spicy at all as I removed the seeds from the peppers. If you want to add spice, you can leave the seeds in the peppers, add red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper. Then you get to cool them off in this delicious avocado, cilantro crema.
When you eat wings, you always need something to dip them into. I whipped up an avocado, cilantro crema. I don’t have an exact recipe because it was a throw everything into the blender and tweak as you go type situation, but it went something like this. Add 1/4 cup of sour cream, handful of cilantro, juice of 2 limes and a pinch of salt to a blender and blend until smooth. This sauce was my choice for today, tomorrow it may be something different and you can serve with your favorite dipping sauce. Slow Cooker Pineapple Pepper Chicken Tacos
