Chili Chicken Wings With Cilantro And Blue Cheese Dip
Total Time: 35 mins
Preparation Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Ingredients
- 24 chicken wings
- 7/8 cup hot pepper sauce
- 7/8 cup sour cream
- 1/3 cup heavy cream
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 1 shallot, finely diced
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 4 ounces blue cheese
- salt and pepper
- 1 dash worcestershire sauce
- 2 cups plain flour
- 1 pinch paprika
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper
- 1 pinch dried oregano
- 1 pinch dried thyme
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon milk
- vegetable oil, for deep fat-frying
- 1 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 green apples, cut into slices
- 2 carrots, sliced for crudites
- 2 celery ribs, chopped for crudites
Recipe
- 1 place the chicken wings in a bowl. pour over half the hot pepper sauce and mix throughly. cover and marinate in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- 2 meanwhile, make the blue cheese dip. mix together the sour cream, heavy cream, lemon juice, shallot and garlic.
- 3 crumble the blue cheese, add and whisk until smooth. season with salt, freshly ground pepper, a dash of the hot pepper sauce and a dash of worcestershire sauce.
- 4 season the flour with generous pinches of paprika, cayenne, oregano, thyme, salt and freshly ground pepper.
- 5 beat the eggs with the milk to make an egg wash.
- 6 coat the marinated wings in the seasoned flour. dip each wing in the egg wash, letting the excess drip off. coat the wings in the seasoned flour for a second time.
- 7 heat the oil for deep frying in a wok or deep fat-fryer.
- 8 fry the wings in batches for 4-5 minutes until golden brown. remove the fried wings with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper.
- 9 place the wings on a warm serving plate. drizzle over the remaining hot pepper sauce and sprinkle over the cilantro. add the butter and toss well.
- 10 serve the wings hot or cold with the blue cheese dip plus apple, carrot and celery crudites.
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