Honey garlic chicken wings are absolutely delicious. They’re sweet and sticky and the perfect addition to any appetizer plate. These chicken wings are oven baked until crispy and then coated with a honey garlic sauce.
It contains some of my favorite Asian flavor combinations too: soy, garlic and ginger. This magic threesome is a never-fail basis for salad dressings or marinades.
Serve them alongside buffalo chicken wings and other easy snacks like loaded nachos for the perfect party spread!
Honey Garlic Chicken Wings
This Chicken Wings recipe is easy to make. It starts with wings dabbed dry and dusted with a flour mixture. The wings are baked until crisp, we love making chicken wings in the oven. A little sweetness and a lots of ginger and garlic make these honey garlic chicken wings hard to resist!
Chicken Wings in the Oven
When you order chicken wings at a restaurant, they deep fry them. It’s so much better to make chicken wings in the oven at home!
Chicken wings in the oven come out every bit as crispy and a whole lot less greasy. Plus, you don’t have all the oil spatter or cleanup to worry about. Just toss the parchment paper and foil when you’re done.
The secret to making homemade chicken wings crispy:
- Dab them dry them thoroughly with paper towels before coating them with the flour
- Ensure the flour is just a dusting (not clumped or thick)
- Make sure your oven is good and hot before popping them in so the skin will crisp up quickly
Chicken Wing Sauce
You can use any kind of chicken wing sauce for this recipe from Buffalo Sauce to simply salt and pepper. In this chicken wing recipe, a simple homemade sweet and sour sauce is baked until delicious and sticky.
For this wing sauce, I pump up the volume by adding extra garlic and ginger. The result is a perfectly heavenly combination of sweet, salty and meaty umami flavors.
How to Make Wing Sauce
The trick to the best wing sauce is making sure it’s thickened so it sticks to the wings.
- Combine the wing sauce ingredients in a small saucepan
- Simmer until thickened, the sauce should coat the back of a spoon
- Use a foil lined pan (easy clean up) topped with parchment paper (so the wings don’t stick)
- Allow the wings to bake/caramelize
- Cool 10 minutes before serving which will help the sauce to thicken further
Honey garlic chicken wings are perfect as party wings. Serve them with a veggie plate containing celery sticks, broccoli florets and a variety of dipping sauces. Ranch dressing or your favorite blue cheese dressings are easy dips.
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Ingredients
- 50 chicken wings
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- salt and black pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Sauce
- ½ cup honey
- ⅓ cup water
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F. Dab wings with paper towels until completely dry.
- Toss wings with flour, salt and pepper. Remove any excess flour and brush with olive oil (or use an olive oil spray).
- Line a pan with foil, place parchment paper on top, and spread wings on pan ensuring they have a little space around them (you may need 2 pans). Bake for 35 minutes, turning at 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, combine sauce ingredients in a small pan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer about 10 minutes or until slightly thickened and sauce coats the back of a spoon.
- Take wings from oven, toss with sauce and return to the oven for 10 minutes, turning after 5 minutes.
- Allow to cool 10 minutes. As the sauce cools, it thickens. Stir the wings every few minutes to coat in the sauce as it thickens.
Notes
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Appetizer, Chicken, Party Food
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Adapted from Epicurious
Excellent recipe. My family loved it. We also used chicken thighs, bone in with skin! Delicious!
Love love love this recipe! I made 1/2 with flour and 1/2 without flour for our GF friends. I also made some with buffalo wing sauce. But I’m really impressed with the flour dredging first. What a difference it makes. The wings come out crisp and they don’t fall apart when you toss them in the sauce. The honey garlic sauce is amazing!
Question about step 6..
So the wings have been tossed in the sauce and back in oven..do the wings get re-coated with sauce After they’ve been in the oven?
Sounds delish!
In step 5, the sauce is added to the wings, so they still have the sauce as they are cooling. Hope that helps Barbara! Enjoy ❤️
I followed the recipe and they were excellent!
Love the recipes you have created!
Yay!!! I finally found a wings recipe that I LOVE!! Lots of wings recipes are good, but this one is fantastic! I made it exactly as written (except doubled the sauce) and my whole family said they were amazing! Thanks for ending my search for the best wings!
Has anyone tried this recipe with Chicken Legs instead of wings? Obiviously, the cooking time may be slightly longer before coating to ensure get the internal temperature to 165 degrees.
Thanks,
Greg
Amazing! My picky child enjoyed these wings! I appreciated the detailed steps from drying the wings before breading to the foil and parchment paper. I will be making wings again as a main dish and have already shared the recipe.
These wings are delicious! This recipe is a keeper.
These are the best! There are many wing recipes that involve a smoker, BBQ grill, marinating , etc. These wings are delicious and do not require anything other than some oven time. The directions are clear. I made them as instructed. Mine were browned enough at the end, so I did not run them under the broiler. Definitely a keeper!
I’ve tried this recipe twice; first time was fine and was great but when I tried it again today the sauce was burnt once I added it to the wings in the oven for the last ten minutes. Any tips on how to prevent this? Maybe I should lower the heat once the sauce goes on?
Oh no Sam! Did you use a larger pan the second time? If the sauce is more spread out it could burn.
Thanks for sharing this amazing honey garlic wings recipe with all of us. I really like this recipe.
I made extra sauce for dipping! I had a hard time stopping myself from taste testing LOL! AFTER we finished, my son loved the sauce so much, he drank the left over sauce I reserved for dipping. Excellent!!!
LOL! So glad the sauce was a hit with your family Joni!
These wings are way delish. However, I made a few tweaks to this recipe. The wings turn out crispier if you leave off the flour. In my opinion it’s a step that can be eliminated. Saves so much more time. I just place them in the oven with salt & pep (no olive oil), they have enough oil when they cook. Cook for 45 min. on 375. When they are done I place the wings in the sauce pan and let them simmer about 5 minutes. Done! Soooo good
Thanks for sharing. Glad you love the wings Aretha!
Makes sense and just in time for a Super Bowl !
Hey ! Catchy name .
What kind of Pan? Cookie sheet? Casserole?
Any kind of pan as long as the wings fit and have a bit of space. I find a rimmed sheet pan to work best.
Just delicious! Made with a bit of a hangover, and was the perfect cure!
Do you need to defrost frozen wings for this recipe?
The wings should be defrosted for this recipe. If they are cooked from frozen they may cook unevenly and require additional cooking time.
I recommend straining out the ginger and garlic and baking again after tossing in the sauce
Very easy to make and taste great
An excellent recipe, very precise, easy to follow, produced an unbelievable wings, my picky kids devoured it like no tomorrow