Thirteen posts into this blog and not a healthy recipe among them (well, the grilled chicken probably qualifies). One fairly healthy habit we have is that we rarely fry. We occasionally pan fry, but hardly ever deep fry. Yay for us! Our cholesterol is plummeting! We also are a family of wing lovers and we do have a delicious fried wing recipe (that’s for another post) but we cook a mean smoked hot wing and we do it often! They are smoky, spicy, moist and delicious!
The recipe calls for smoking, then finishing at medium-high heat. We have an amazing grill that we can set to smoke and then crank it up to whatever temp we choose but I imagine you could smoke the wings on a smoker, meanwhile, heating up your regular grill to a higher temperature and transfer the wings to the grill after smoking for a couple of hours. That sounds like a lot more trouble than doing the whole process on our Traeger grill, but believe me, these wings are worth it!
Smoked Hot Wings
Print recipeIngredients
- 2lb chicken wings (cut into 3 pieces, tips discarded)
Marinade
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 8 dashes tabasco sauce (a few shakes)
Wing Sauce
- 1 bottle Frank's Hot Sauce (16 oz size; can use Louisiana or hot sauce of your choice)
- 1 bottle Tabasco sauce
- 1 stick butter
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar
- 1/4 cup honey (1/4 to 1/3 cup)
- 1/2 can beer
Directions
| Marinade | |
| Step 1 | |
| Combine marinade dry ingredients in gallon size plastic bag. Add cut up wings and Tabasco sauce. Shake until wings are coated and refrigerate 3 to 6 hours, turning once or twice. | |
| Wing Sauce | |
| Step 2 | |
| Prepare wing sauce. Melt butter in large sauce pan. Add remaining ingredients and bring to boil. Simmer for 10 minutes | |
| Step 3 | |
| Preheat grill to smoke. Add wings in a single layer and smoke 1 & 1/2 to 2 hours; dip wings in sauce and return to grill for 30 minutes at 350 degrees, turning once. Remove from grill and dip in wing sauce again. Serve with celery and ranch or blue cheese dressing. | |
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