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Tastiest Air Fryer Chicken Wings with Sticky Honey Buffalo Sauce (recipe)

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       Welcome to the tastiest Air Fryer chicken wings, my fellow Chicken wings lover. You came to the right place. When it comes to making wings, I consider myself a professional. – I have been making chicken wings every weekend since 2001 and since then I perfected our Chicken wings finger-licking sauce because the sauce in chicken wings is the KEY to the taste. The second most important factor is the method of preparation.
Air fryer chicken wings with honey buffalo sauce
       I have been baking or broiling wings most of the time in the oven until 2 years ago I started making Instant Pot wings. I have shared my sauce recipe and how to make them fall off the bone and crunchy. Since then, more than a million people came to my blog to check my Instant Pot chicken wings recipe and they gave it an honest 5-star rating.
 
       Today I’m sharing the tastiest air fryer chicken wings with honey buffalo sauce. I recently got an air fryer oven and I’m so glad that one of the very important things to me that it has a window and a light so I can peak at the food any time I need.
 
        The current air fryer oven that I use is Instant Vortex. And also the Ninja Foodi. The wings come out in 20-25 minutes from start to finish crispy to perfection. The crispiness seals the chicken wings in their entirety, leaving the inside meat juicy tender. Once you have bitten thru the crisp, the juicy meat slides right off the bone in one bite. Yep, this is how it should be.
 
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Air Fryer Honey Buffalo Chicken Wings, Sticky and swicy
    I’m sharing my own chicken wings sauce recipe (just look how saucy it is!). It is hot, spicy, and sweet at once. The great thing that you can control the spiciness and sweetness and basically what goes in your wings sauce. I named the sauce “Sticky and swicy” I have had MANY chicken wings sauces before but this one is always the winner. I mean if a million people agree that this sauce is so good.
 
It is not complicated to make at all. You make the chicken wings sauce while the wings are being cooked. By the time the wings are out of the oven, the sauce is ready. And by “sticky” I mean finger-licking. OMG, look how delicious and saucy the wings look in the picture below.
Sticky sweet and spicy buffalo chicken wings, made in air fryer
 

If you’re having a Super Bowl party or not these Chicken wings are to die for. You’re welcome!

Ingredients for Air fryer chicken wings:
 
3-4 pounds chicken wings
salt and pepper to taste
 
Sauce ingredients:
3/4 cup Franks Hot Sauce (or you can use a hot sauce of your choice)

1/2 Stick of butter

1TBS flour (or corn starch) to thicken

2TBS Molasses

1TBS Brown sugar

1TBS Raw Honey

1tsp Maple Syrup

1tsp Tabasco

1/2 tsp Liquid smoke

1TBS ketchup

1TBS bbq sauce

Paprika – a pinch of (to taste)

Cayenne – a pinch of (to taste)

Note: If you don’t have all the above ingredients – Do not worry. Your wing sauce may not be as “rich”, but try to get the basics – Franks sauce, honey, butter, flour, BBQ sauce

Sticky sweet and spicy Honey Buffalo Chicken Wings for Super Bowl

Directions:
Air Fry method – follow the directions of your Air fryer maker. The cooking time for the wings is usually 20-25 minutes at 380°F  (approx 193°C)
  1. Sprinkle the wings with salt and pepper to taste if desired. 
  2. Press AirFry, set the temperature to 380°F and the time to 20 minutes, then touch START.
  3. After 10 minutes, open air fryer, flip each wing on the other side, and airfry for the remaining 10 minutes
  4. Wing Sauce: While the wings are being cooked, in a small or medium saucepan mix together the following ingredients for the hot sauce. Begin by melting butter over low heat.  Once the butter is melted, add flour to it, it helps to thicken the sauce.  Work out all the lumps.  After flour, you then add the remaining ingredients, one at a time.  Cook the sauce over low heat until it caramelizes and is nicely blended into the sauce. It should take about 10 minutes. If the sauce comes out too thick, you can add water ( little at a time) – however, you do not want the sauce too liquidy
  5. When the AirFry program is complete, toss wings with the sauce and serve hot.
If you do not use an Air Fryer, you can try Instant Pot Chicken wings or if you have a regular oven with the broiler function, broil them on high for 15 minutes on each side in the middle rack. Make sure to take a peak every 5-10 minutes to make sure they do not burn and flip them occasionally.
 
Chicken wings recipe notes:
This Instant Vortex Air fryer makes 24 large size wings at once (12 per tray) in 25 minutes
Serve Chicken Wings with celery and blue cheese. Sometimes people serve Chicken wings with fresh carrots.
Please also try this Chipotle sauce for dipping.
Do not sauce your wings before cooking or else the wings may have burn skin (because of the sugar in the sauce)
 
Please feel free to comment below with any questions, or experiences you had after using this recipe. I would love to hear from you. If you decide to give this recipe a try and post your chicken wings on social media, please use the hashtag #DailyYumBuzz so it will be easy for me to find your photo.
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Recipe type: Appetizer or main
Cuisine: Any
Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • Ingredients for Air fryer chicken wings:
  • 3-4 pounds chicken wings
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • Sauce ingredients:3/4 Cup Franks Hot Sauce (or you can use hot sauce of your choice)
  • ½ Stick of butter
  • 1TBS flour (or corn starch) to thicken
  • 2TBS Molasses
  • 1TBS Brown sugar
  • 1TBS Raw Honey
  • 1tsp Maple Syrup
  • 1tsp Tabasco
  • ½ tsp Liquid smoke
  • 1TBS ketchup
  • 1TBS bbq sauce
  • Paprika - a pinch of (to taste)
  • Cayenne - a pinch of (to taste)
  • Note: If you don’t have all the above ingredients – Do not worry. Your wing sauce may not be as “rich”, but try to get the basics – Franks sauce, honey, butter, flour, BBQ sauce
Instructions
  1. Air Fry method - follow the directions of your Air fryer maker. The cooking time for the wings is usually 20-25 minutes at 380°F  (approx 193°C)
  2. Sprinkle the wings with salt and pepper to taste if desired.
  3. Press AirFry, set the temperature to 380°F and the time to 20 minutes, then touch START.
  4. After 10 minutes, open air fryer, flip each wing on the other side, and airfry for the remaining 10 minutes
  5. Wing Sauce: While the wings are being cooked, in a small or medium saucepan mix together the following ingredients for the hot sauce. Begin by melting butter over low heat.  Once the butter is melted, add flour to it, it helps to thicken the sauce.  Work out all the lumps.  After flour, you then add the remaining ingredients, one at a time.  Cook the sauce over low heat until it caramelizes and is nicely blended into the sauce. It should take about 10 minutes. If the sauce comes out too thick, you can add water ( little at a time) - however, you do not want the sauce too liquidy
  6. When the AirFry program is complete, toss wings with the sauce and serve hot.
  7. If you do not use an Air Fryer, you can try Instant Pot Chicken wings or if you have a regular oven with the broiler function, broil them on high for 15 minutes on each side in the middle rack. Make sure to take a peak every 5-10 minutes to make sure they do not burn and flip them occasionally.
 
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