Garlic Chicken Wings

Garlic chicken wings is a quick and crispy snack made with thinner cuts of chicken wings, made especially to be enjoyed by kids. The chicken wingettes are cut into two portions to make it easier to bite. Each piece of chicken is well coated with garlic infused oil, made fresh, crunchy and colorful with the addition of red and green bell peppers and chopped spring onions. The garlic chicken wings is super easy to prepare and best eaten papak or with rice. Yum!

GARLIC CHICKEN WINGS RECIPE

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kilo chicken wings
• 8 cloves of garlic (minced)
• 1/4 cup spring onions (chopped)
• 1/4 cup green bell pepper (chopped)
• 1/4 cup red bell pepper (chopped)
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 tablespoon liquid seasoning (optional)

Directions:

1. Wash and prepare the chicken wings. Slice each wingette into two and then place them to a large bowl. Season with a little salt and pepper. Add the soy sauce, oyster sauce and liquid seasoning (optional). Mix well. Marinate them for at least 15 minutes.
2. Heat some oil in a pan. Arrange the marinated wings and then fry directly using low heat. Flip to cook the other side. Let them cook until golden brown on all sides. Transfer them to a strainer or paper towel to drain excess oil. Set aside while you fry the other chicken pieces.
3. Remove some of the oil in the pan. Add the minced garlic and saute for a minute until fragrant. Then add the spring onions, and the red and green bell peppers. Saute them for a few minutes.
4. Add the fried chicken wings back to the pan and toss well to coat them with the garlic infused oil and the peppers. Turn the heat off.
5. Transfer the garlic chicken wings to a serving plate. Make papak or enjoy this with a lot of hot steaming rice or fries. Have your dipping sauce ready! Yum!

GARLICKY GOODNESS

As a Filipino, have you noticed that garlic is always one of the basic aromatics of almost all savoury dishes?

The garlic, or bawang in Tagalog, is a type of bulb which grows underground. It will take around 8 months for the garlic plant to produce a large bulb. Each bulb contains around 8-12 cloves, which can be used in around 5-8 dishes depending on how you love garlic.

Aside from being an aromatic, garlic has a unique pungent and earthy flavor which made it a popular seasoning. Some of the dishes which uses garlic include toasted bread with roasted garlic, creamy garlic fish, chili garlic oil, spaghetti aglia oglio and many more.

GARLIC CHICKEN WINGS

Kids love fried chicken! But kids will love chicken more if you introduce them to different sauces. My niece loves the classic crispy fried chicken but can’t enjoy it well without a dipping sauce like mayo and ketchup. I started introducing different sauces to her and she loved the sweet ones. I saw her once adding fried garlic bits to her mayonnaise and gave me the idea of making a garlic based sauce. This recipe is for the kids (and kids at heart) who loves garlic and bell peppers.

I added a quick hack in the preparation part on how to make the chicken wings extra kid-friendly. If you wanna know how to make garlic chicken wings, read and follow the quick steps below. Happy cooking!

HOW TO MAKE GARLIC CHICKEN WINGS

Making some garlic chicken wings is super easy. If you have tried frying chicken wings in the past, then the following steps would be familiar to you.

Let’s start with the chicken wings. Since this recipe is for children, we are going to cut the chicken wings into thinner pieces. For this version, I only used the wingette part. You can make this recipe in two parts, where you serve the wingettes to the children and the drumettes to the adults. Based on my experience, kids prefer the wingette part since there is no dry part, such as the pitso part attached to the drumette.

After you wash and prepare the wingette, try to feel the two bones. This is where you will cut the chicken. Remember to use a sharp knife when doing this to avoid injuries. After you cut them all, you can now continue cooking this like a regular chicken wing. Lightly season them with salt to draw out some water and to make them crispy for later. Then, marinate them in your preferred seasonings. For this version, I used soy sauce, oyster sauce and liquid seasoning. The chicken marinades faster than other meats, so you can just leave it for 15 minutes and it is now ready to cook.

Fry them directly into hot oil until brown and crispy. You can also opt to coat them with breadcrumbs and egg if you like. You may double fry them to make sure that they are extra crispy.

Our sauce is actually more of a garlic-infused oil compared to the usual thick sauces. Alternatively, you can also use butter instead of oil. Saute as much garlic as you want then add spring onions. To give the sauce an extra crunch and freshness, I added some finely chopped red and green bell peppers. Toss gently and it is now ready to be devoured! Yum!

I usually go beside the kids and make papak of the chicken. I sometimes make an adult version of this dish using the drumettes, and enjoy it with hot steaming rice. Since the hack of slicing the chicken wings smaller makes this dish more, you can also have this as a pulutan!  Yum!

COOKING TIPS

• You can make this dish spicy by adding a little chili powder or chili flakes.
• You can heighten the flavor of the bell peppers by adding some paprika powder.
• You may also sprinkle some fried garlic bits if you like.

Garlic Chicken Wings Recipe (TAGALOG)

Mga Sangkap:

• 1/2 kilo pakpak ng manok
• 8 butil ng bawang (hiniwa ng maliliit)
• 1/4 tasa spring onions (hiniwa)
• 1/4 tasa green bell pepper (hiniwa)
• 1/4 tasa red bell pepper (hiniwa)
• 1 kutsarang toyo
• 1/2 kutsarang oyster sauce
• 1 kutsaritang paminta
• 1 kutsaritang asin
• 1/2 kutsarang liquid seasoning (optional)
  
  

Paano Lutuin:

1. Linisin at ihanda ang mga pakpak ng manok. Hiwain ang mga wingettes sa kalahati at ilagay sa isang bowl. Timplahan ito ng konting asin at paminta. Ilagay ang toyo, oyster sauce at liquid seasoning (optional). Haluin ng mabuti. Imarinate ang mga ito ng 15 minuto.
2. Magpainit ng mantika. Ilagay ang mga manok at iprito gamit ang mahinang apoy. Baliktarin ang mga ito para maluto ang kabilang side. Kapag golden brown na, ilipat ang mga ito sa strainer o paper towel para tumulo ang sobrang mantika. Isantabi habang niluluto ang iba pang manok.
3. Bawasan ang mantika sa kawali bago ilagay ang bawang, Igisa ito ng 1 minuto hanggang bumango. Sunod na ilagay ang spring onions, at ang mga bell peppers. Igisa ang mga ito ng ilang minuto.
4. Ibalik ang mga pritong wings sa kawali at haluin para malagyan ng sauce at ng peppers. Patayin ang apoy.
5. Ilipat ang garlic chicken wings sa serving plate. Papakin ito o samahan ng mainit na kanin o ng fries. Ihanda na rin ang favorite mong sawsawan. Yum!