Crispy Soy-Garlic Butter Chicken Wings

This Crispy Soy-Garlic Butter Chicken Wings recipe is deliciously easy! Crispy chicken wings seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder, all purpose flour, and water. Coated in cornstarch, fried then tossed in an aromatic and mouthwateringly tasty sauce made of butter, garlic, soy sauce, and brown sugar. 

Crispy Soy-Garlic Butter Chicken Wings Recipe :

Ingredients

• ½ kilo chicken wings
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper, more to taste
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• ¼ cup all purpose flour
• ¼ cup water
• ½ cup cornstarch ( for coating )
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 3 cloves garlic ( minced )
• 1 ½ tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar

Steps:

1. First prepare the chicken wings; season these with salt, pepper, garlic powder, all purpose flour, and water. Mix well. Let this marinate for 30 minutes.
2. In another bowl, place in cornstarch. Coat the chicken with cornstarch, shake the excess off before deep frying for 10 – 12 minutes at medium heat. Flip to cook evenly.
3. Place in a strainer and let this rest for 10 minutes. Then refry/double fry for 2 minutes at high heat. Take these out and set aside.
4. In another pan; melt butter, and saute garlic until aromatic. Add soy sauce, sugar, pepper to taste, and a tablespoon of water. Mix well.
5. Once the sauce is simmering and has slightly reduced, add in the fried chicken wings. Toss around till these are fully coated in the sauce. Garnish with spring onions.

How to make this Crispy Soy-Garlic Butter Chicken Wings Recipe

A weekend, special occasion, or just a special snack to treat yourself with. These Crispy Garlic Butter Chicken Wings, sometimes known as “Korean Soy Garlic Chicken Wings Recipe” are golden savory nuggets that are so easy to make all you need to do is prepare your chicken wings, cleaned and dried with some kitchen towel, these are seasoned with salt, pepper garlic powder, with all purpose flour and water to help make a thin batter that will help the cornstarch cling on better later on. Let this sit at room temperature to marinade for 3 minutes. Then coat each piece with cornstarch, cornstarch is great for adding a really crisp outer covering. Shake any of the excess before placing in a pan or pot with hot oil, frying for 10 minutes or more, flipping once one side turns brown. Take these out, letting it rest for 10 minutes or till at room temperature before frying it back into the oil that’s now in high heat. Refry these for 2 more minutes or till the color deepens. Then set these aside in the strainer to remove excess oil. 

To make the sticky delicious sauce; in a pan, melt some butter then saute some minced garlic until aromatic. Pour in soy sauce for color and that signature umami flavor, sugar for better caramelization, and some pepper to taste. Dilute with a tablespoon of water. Mix till it simmers and slightly reduced, one thick enough, add back the fried chicken wings, toss these around till all of these have been coated with the sauce. Garnish with spring onions for a pop of color.

Great as a snack, main dish for lunch or dinner, beer companion, or as a Yummy easy appetizer to make for parties. These amazing tender and juicy on the inside, crisp and nicely caramelized crust on the outside chicken wings will surely satisfy your savory, umami, and sweet cravings.

Questions :

• Other Cooking methods :
  • While the easiest way to fry chicken is through deep frying, you can also make this a bit ‘healthier’ using an air fryer. Crispy Soy-Garlic Butter Chicken Wings air fryer style is quick and easy. Fry-bake this in a 370°F or 187°C lined preheated air fryer for 15 minutes in batches, then another 10 – 15 minutes at 400°F or 200°C or till crispy. Make the sauce in a different pan before tossing the chicken in the sauce, garnish, then serve.
  • To make Crispy Soy Garlic Butter Chicken Wings oven version; To make baked oven chicken wings, preheat oven at 425°F or 218°C. Place the seasoned wings in a tray lined with parchment, bake for 40 – 50 minutes or till crispy. Flip in the middle if needed. Similarly to the air fryer, make the sauce separately and toss in the chicken after.

• Additional ingredients for this Crispy Soy Garlic Chicken Recipe ?
  • To make this dish even more interesting, try adding 1 – 2 chillies, 1 – 2 teaspoons of hot sauce or gochujang for some spice. 
  • If you want it sweeter but not add sugar, replace this with the same amount of honey.
  • For those who want a rich umami flavor with a buttery aftertaste, try adding the crushed yolk of a salted egg.
  • Add nuttiness by adding in 1 – 2 teaspoons of sesame oil and garnish with sesame seeds, toast sesame seeds before garnishing if you’d like a stronger nutty taste.

NOTE: all these should be added in the ‘simmering sauce’ stage.

Other Yummy Chicken Wings Recipes!

• Soy Garlic Chicken Wings
• Cheesy Chicken Wings
• Sprite Chicken Wings
• Sweet BBQ Chicken Wings
• Korean-style Fried Chicken Wings
• Teriyaki Chicken Wings
• Honey Chicken Wings

Crispy Soy-Garlic Butter Chicken Wings Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• ½ kilo pakpak ng manok
• ½ kutsaritang asin
• ½ kutsaritang paminta, sobra pan lasa
• 1 kutsaritang garlic powder
• ¼ tasa all purpose flour
• ¼ tasa tubig
• ½ tasa cornstarch ( pang coating )
• 2 kutarang mantikilya
• 3 butil ng pawang ( tinadtad )
• 1 ½ kutarang soy sauce
• 1 kutarang kayumangging asukal

Paano Lutuin :

1. Una, ihanda ang mga pakpak ng manok. Haluin ito ng asin, paminta, garlic powder, all purpose flour, at tubig. I-marinade ng 30 minuto.
2. Sa ibang mangkok, lagyan ng cornstarch. Takpan ang mga pakpak ng cornstarch at pagpagin ang sobra bago iprito ng 10 – 12 minuto sa katamtamang init. Baliktarin para pumantay ang pagkaluto.
3. Ilagay sa salaan at pahingahin ng 10 minuto. Iprito muli ng 2 minuto sa mataas na init. Tanggalin at itabi.
4. Sa ibang kawali; tunawin ang mantika at lutuin ang bawang hanggang bumango. Haluan ng soy sauce, asukal, paminta panlasa, at 1 kutsaritang tubig. 
5. Pagkumulo na ito at nabawasan ng konti. Ihalo dito ang mga pritong pakpak hanggang matakpan ito ng sarsa. Dekorasyonan ng mga dahon ng sibuyas.