Cheesy Chicken Wings

Cheesy Chicken Wings are crispy and delectably flavorful. Chicken wings marinated in salt, pepper, and calamansi, breaded in a flour, garlic powder, paprika, and cornstarch. Tossed in a savory sauce made of butter, garlic, soy sauce, and brown sugar. Topped off with a lot of cheese! A Yummy! crispy, and cheesy, finger food that anyone will love!

Cheesy Chicken Wings Recipe:

Ingredients

• 1 kilo chicken wings
• Salt and black pepper to taste
• 1 tablespoon calamansi juice
• ½ cup all purpose flour
• ½ cup cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 5 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons water
• Cheese for topping
• Oil for frying
• Parsley for garnish (optional)

Steps:

1. Place the chicken wings in a bowl, mix in salt, pepper, and calamansi juice. Set aside and let this marinade for 8 – 10 minutes.
2. In another bowl, mix together all purpose flour, cornstarch, 1 teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon pepper, garlic powder, and paprika.
3. Evenly coat the chicken wings with the flour mixture. Shaking off any excess flour. In a pan filled with oil at medium heat, deep-fry the wings for 10 to 12 minutes, flipping till it looks golden. 
4. Place in a strainer to remove any excess oils. Repeat with the other wings. Use the same pan, removing any residues from the first and/or second batch of frying. Set aside to let it cool down.
5. Optional: to make these even crispier, double fry: Once cooled, fry these again for 2 minutes at high heat. Take these out and place them back in the strainer.
6. In another pan, sauté butter with garlic until aromatic. Add in soy sauce, brown sugar, pepper to taste and water. Simmer till slightly reduced.
7. Add back the fried wings and mix till these are fully coated with the sauce. Top with cheese. Cover to let these melt over the fried wings. Serve garnished with parsley (optional).

How to make this Cheesy Chicken Wings Recipe?

These easy cheesy chicken wings are made by preparing the wings in a bowl, seasoning them with calamansi juice, salt, and pepper. An important step to help the chicken absorb the flavors later on. Letting it marinade on the side while the coating mix is being made, this tasty flour mixture is made of all purpose flour, seasonings such as garlic powder, paprika, and cornstarch which will be the biggest helper in making this chicken dish crispy. Mixed before using this to coat the marinated chicken wings. These are then deep fried in oil, cooled, and double fried to make sure these stay crispy once the sauce coats the wings. Set aside in a strainer to remove any excess oils.

The aromatic and flavorful sauce that not only adds color and more taste is made by melting the butter and sauteeing garlic until aromatic, soy sauce for umami, and brown sugar to help the sauce caramelize, and a bit of water to help dilute the sauce. All these are mixed and simmered till it’s bubbling before adding the fried chicken wings back. Toss these around till the wings are fully coated, top with shredded cheese, cover the pan just till the cheese melts, then topped with parsley for some color.

Questions:

• Other ways to cook 

These Cheesy Chicken Wings-fried can also be cooked in different methods or flavors, from using the air fryer, to pan frying, or baking in the oven to make “Cheesy Chicken Wings Baked”. More twists like adding cheetos dust or crushed cheetos instead of all purpose flour to make “Cheesy Hot Cheetos Chicken Wings”, or wrap these in bacon before dusting in the flour mixture to make a “Cheesy Bacon Chicken Wings recipe”, or use bacon bits to top off over the cheese.

• Can you change the sauce?

While the most common version of pairing are “chicken wings with cheese sauce” (try Yummy Kitchen’s version of cheese sauce here ( cheese sauce recipe ). You can also use premade sauce to make:

• Sweet and Sour Sriracha Wings
• Jalapeno Cheddar sauce to make Jalapeno Pepper Wings
• Use hot sauce to make Hot Wings with sour cream on the side.
• Add more garlic into the sauce to make “Cheesy Garlic Chicken Wings”.
• Or use different types of cheese like parmesan for “Fried Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings”.

• What to pair this with?

Place a side of rice, garlic fried rice, fries, roasted or baked potatoes, mash potatoes, pickles, or nachos, with a tall cool glass of juice or beer to complete this set.

Other Yummy Chicken Recipes!

• Crispy Chicken Nuggets with Spicy Dip
• Soy Fried Chicken
• Sprite Chicken Wings
• Chicken ala King (a creamy chicken dish slathered in mushroom sauce)
• Chicken Bistek (the Filipino version of soy braised chicken)
• Chicken Tocino (the Filipino sweetened ‘bacon’ chicken form)
• Crispy Whole Fried Chicken

Cheesy Chicken Wings Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• 1 kilo pakpak ng manok
• Asin at paminta panlasa
• 1 kutsarang calamansi juice
• ½ tasa all purpose flour
• ½ tasa cornstarch
• 1 kutsaritang garlic powder
• 1kutsaritang paprika
• 1 kutsarang mantikilya
• 4 butil ng bawang, tinadtad
• 3 kutsarang soy sauce
• 5 kutsarang brown sugar
• 2 kutsarang tubig
• Keso pang sahog
• Mantika pang prito
• Parsley pang dekorasyon (opsyonal)

Paano Lutuin :

1. Ilagay ang mga pakpak sa mangkok, haluan ng asin, paminta, at calamansi juice. Itabi at imarinade ng 8 – 10 minuto.
2. Sa ibang mangkok, haluin ang all purpose flour, cornstarch, 1 kutsaritang asin, ½ kutsaritang paminta, garlic powder, at paprika.
3. Takpan ang mga pakpak ng hinalong harina. Itaktak para matanggal ang sobrang harina. Sa kawali na may ininit na mantika, iprito ang mga ito ng 10 – 12 na minuto, ibaliktad hanggang mag kulay-golden.
4. Ilagay ang mga ito sa salaan para matanggalan ng mga mantika. Ulitin sa mga ibang pakapak. Gamit ang parehong kawami tanggalin ang mga natirang pritnito bago lutuin muli. Itabi at palamigin.
5. Optional : para maging mas krispy, idouble-fry. Iprito ulit ang mga ito ng 2 minuto sa mataas na init. Tanggalin ang mga ito at ibalik sa salaan.
6. Sa ibang kawali, lutuin ang mantikilya at bawang hanggang mabango. Ilagay ang soy sauce, brown sugar, paminta pang lasa, at tubig. Pakuluin hanggang kumapal o kumonti.
7. Ibalik ang mga pakpak at haluin hanggang matakpan ang mga ito ng sarsa. Laygan ng keso at takpan para matunaw ito. Ihanda na dinekorasyonan ng parsley (opsyonal).