Shortly after Buffalo grew wings, the people of upstate New York deep fat fried 'em, smothered them with their signature day-glo hot sauce, and served 'em up with celery and Bleu Cheese dressing to cool the fire.
This was essentially a regional specialty until the Buffalo Bill's were in Superbowl XXV, XXVI, XXVII, and XXVIII. Yes, they lost all four years consecutively, but the love of wings lives on and we'll be adding an extra dash of Americana (and subtracting more than a dash of saturated fat) by using Outdoor Gourmet's USA harvested and produced Cedar and Maple Grilling Planks to make this week's recipe.
Maple Planked Thai Peanut Wings with Caramelized Ginger
Ingredients
-Outdoor Gourmet Cedar and Maple Planks, soaked for 2 or more hours
-Fresh or frozen chicken wings and drummettes
-Your sauce of choice- I used classic store-bought hot wing sauce. (I didn't look at the ingredients- don't want to know where that color comes from) and a Thai peanut sauce.
-Celery and Carrots to munch with the wings
Directions
First- Marinate wings and drumettes in desired sauce (BBQ, teriyaki, hot wing sauce) for at 2-6 hours. Soak Outdoor Gourmet Cedar Grilling Planks or Hardwood Grilling Planks at least 2 hours, preferably more.
Next- Preheat oven to 350°, then bake wings for 25-30 minutes, flipping once if needed. Preheat grill to medium heat, then place planks and wings on grill after baking is completed.
Then- Leave on grill for 10-12 mins. The planks will smolder, smoke, and possibly even catch on fire! It’s OK- don’t panic! That’s what wood does when you put in near an open flame. Just have some water on hand to douse the flame with.
Finally- Remove wings from grill serve the classic hot wings with Homemade Bleu Cheese dressing and celery.
Homemade Bleu Cheese Dressing
2 Tablespoons Buttermilk
¾ Greek Yogurt
6 oz. Roquefort Bleu Cheese
Fresh Ground Pepper and Sea Salt to taste
Directions- Take all the ingredients and mash ‘em together!
Carrots
Celery
Sesame Seeds
Cilantro
Avocado Oil (or some other high-smoking point oil)
Agave Syrup (honey or brown sugar will work great too)
Directions
-Heat avocado oil and add thinly sliced ginger. Once the ginger starts to brown, drizzle agave in pan then remove from heat.
-Sprinkle Thai peanut wings with sesame seeds and garnish carrot curls, cilantro, caramelized ginger, fresh ginger (Julienned).
Welcome to your Super Bowl weekend. -KB
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