Salted Egg Chicken-Wings Recipe

This Salted Egg Chicken-Wings recipe is a deliciously interesting crispy chicken dish that’s made of chicken wings marinated with calamansi juice, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika. Coated in a breading of all purpose flour, cornstarch, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika. Fried till golden before mixing in a spicy salty rich sauce of salted egg yolks, butter, garlic, chillies, evaporated milk, and a bit of sugar.

Salted Egg Chicken-Wings Recipe :

Ingredients

• 500 grams chicken wings
• 2 teaspoon calamansi juice (or lemon juice)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika

For the Breading

• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika

For the Sauce

• 3 tablespoon butter
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 red chili
• 3 salted egg yolks (mashed)
• 1/3 cup evaporated milk
• sugar to taste (optional)

Steps:

1. To prepare the chicken wings; place in a bowl with calamansi juice, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika. Mix well and let this marinade for at least 30 minutes.
2. Prepare the breading; in a container. Mix together all purpose flour, cornstarch, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika.
3. Coat the chicken in the breading. Before placing this in a pan at medium heat, filled with enough oil for frying. Fry for 12 minutes, flipping often till the chickens are golden. 
4. Let this rest for 10 minutes. Before frying these again for 2 – 3 minutes. Set aside.
5. For the sauce; crack the egg and take out the yolks. Place these in a bowl and set aside. In a new pan, melt the butter and cook in the garlic, chillies, and mashed egg yolks. Pour in the evaporated milk, cooking for a minute before adding some sugar (optional).
6. Once the sauce is simmering; add in the fried chicken wings and mix till these are well coated with the sauce. Take these out of the pan and serve.

How to make this Simple Salted Egg Chicken-Wings Recipe?

A delicious simple dish that just needs a few ingredients and minutes to make. Salted egg dishes are always a fun and tasty way to make your recipe more colorful and interesting. Salted eggs have such a unique taste and texture to them. Crispy tender and juicy chicken wings coated in this lovely creamy salty, spicy, and sweet sauce. Popularly bought in Frankie’s “New York Buffalo Wings” a popular food chain seen in many food counts, or even as a large restaurant in some malls. Try to make this treat in your next party as a surprise, you’re sure to blow your guests mind with how YUMMY this is!

To start with Salted Egg Chicken-Wings recipe ingredients; prepare and cream your chicken wings, placing these in a bowl to mix with calamansi juice which has enough acidity to help remove any foul smells and help the marinade penetrate further. Mix in some salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika. Setting this aside for 30 minutes or more. To prepare the breading, simply mix  all purpose flour, cornstarch to make it even more crispy, salt, pepper, with garlic powder and paprika for more flavor. Coat the chicken wings well with the spiced breading. Then fry in a pan full of oil at medium heat. Make sure the oil is hot enough that you see some bubbles at the bottom. Fry for 10 – 12 minutes till they’re golden, flipping if needed. Let this rest to double fry and make sure the chicken dish stays crispy even after coating with the sauce later on.

For the Salted egg sauce recipe; start with preparing the eggs by cracking open the egg and taking only the yolks. Mashing these in a small bowl before setting it aside. Then melt butter in a pan, sauteing the garlic until aromatic before adding the chillies for spice and egg yolks. Pour in the evaporated milk for creaminess and to dilute the sauce. Cook for a bit before adding some sugar to help with the caramelization. Once this bubbles, add back the fried chicken and toss these around till everything is coated with the cause. Take it out of the pan and serve with a side of white rice for a filling meal or an iced cold drink to eat as a ‘pulutan’ or snack to pair with a drink.

Questions:

• Salted Egg Chicken-Wings Calories :

For a serving of 2, it can have around 150 – 170 calories.

• “Healthier” way to cook this recipe ?
  • To make this dish healthier, try frying the chicken in an oven. For a  “Salted Egg Chicken Wings Baked” preheat your oven at 200°C or 390°F and line the breaded chicken in a baking tray lined with parchment. Lighty spray the chicken with oil and bake for 25 – 30 minutes on one side then flip and bake for another 20 – 25 minutes on the other.
  • Another option would be using an airfryer preheating similarly with the oven. Cook these in batches for 15 minutes before flipping and ,cooking for another 15 minutes, repeat till they turn brown and crisp to make “Salted Egg Chicken Wings Air Fryer”.

• Other ways to enjoy this dish ?
  • While you can enjoy this dish as is, you can also make “Salted Egg Chicken Pasta” by mixing the leftover sauce (or creating another batch of the sauce for a salted egg sauce pasta) with pasta cooked al dente then topping with the shredded chicken wings.
  • Replace the chicken with fish filet. Fry as usual to create “Salted Egg Fish Filet”
  • For a snack version, try mixing the sauce with some freshly cooked popcorn (Salted Egg Popcorn recipe) or use salted egg powder to make it less messy and wet.

• How to make Keto Salted Egg Chicken ?
  • For this recipe replace the all purpose flour and cornstarch with either coconut flour, almond or any nut based flours instead.
  • Use coconut milk instead of evaporated milk.
  • Remove the sugar or replace this with monk fruit, stevia, allulose, or erythritol.

Other Yummy Salted Egg Recipes!

• Salted Egg Shrimp
• As a topping for Special Royal Bibingka, Low Carb Bibingka, or No Oven Bibingka
• Add in Ensaymada (a cheesy Filipino pastry)
• Or in Puto Pao (a traditional steamed cake, with savory-salty toppings)

Salted Egg Chicken-Wings Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• 500 gramo pakpak ng manok
• 2 kutsaritang calamansi juice (o limon juice)
• 1/2 kutsaritang asin
• 1/2 kutsaritang paminta
• 1/2 kutsaritang garlic powder
• 1/2 kutsaritang paprika

Para sa Breading

• 1/2 tasa all purpose flour
• 1/2tasa cornstarch
• 1/2 kutsaritang asin
• 1/2 kutsaritang paminta
• 1/2 kutsaritang garlic powder
• 1/2 kutsaritang paprika

Para sa Sarsa

• 3 kutsarang mantikilya
• 2 butil bawang
• 1 pulang sili
• 3 dilaw ng itlog ng maalat (dinurog)
• 1/3 tasa evaporade
• Asukal pang lasa (opsyonal)

Paano Lutuin :

1. Para ihanda ang mga pakpak ng manok; ilagay ang mga ito sa mangkok at haluan ng calamansi juice, asin, paminta, garlic powder, at paprika. Imarinade ng 20 minuto o higit pa.
2. Para sa Breading; sa isang lalagyan, haluin ang all purpose flour, cornstarch, asin, paminta, garlic powder, at paprika.
3. Takpan ang mga manok ng breading. Iprito ang mga ito sa kawali na may mantika na nasa katamtamang init. Iprito ito ng 12 minuto o hanggang mag kayumanggi, baliktarin kung kinakailangan.
4. Pahingain ang mga ito ng 10 minuto bago prituhing muli ng 2 – 3 minito. Itabi.
5. Para sa sarsa; hatiin ang itlog ng kalahati at tanggalin ang mga dilaw nito. Ilagay sa maliit na mangkok at itabi. Sa kawali, tunawin ang mantikilya, lutuin ag bawang, sili, at dinurog na dilaw ng itlog. Ibuhos ang evaporada, lutuin ng 1 minuto bago haluan ng asukal.
6. Pakuluin ito bago ilagay ang mga pritong manok. Haluin hanggang matakpan ang mga ito ng sarsa. Tanggalin sa kawali at ihanda.