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.