#ewew cooks Sticky Honey Soy Chicken Wings

I actually learned this recipe from Astro's afc shorts where they show you short clips of recipes as fillers in between cooking shows.  And it's super easy to follow as they show you step by step how the dish is cooked. You can either record the short clip (and view again) or you can (like me) pause the steps at intervals to jot down the ingredients needed.

One day, I caught this short clip on how to make Sticky Honey Soy Chicken Wings.  The end result looked tempting enough, so I thought I'd give it a go.

Ingredients:

6 chicken wings, without the wing tips (about 500g)

1/2 tbsp olive oil

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp freshly cracked black pepper

Marinade:

1 tbsp light soy sauce

2 tbsp honey

2 tbsp water

2 garlic cloves (minced)

2 cm ginger (peel & grated)

Preparation:

First, prepare the marinade.  Mince the garlic cloves and grate the ginger.  Then, add the rest of the marinade of honey, soy and water and mix well.

As the original recipe was made with 1kg of chicken wings and I only bought 500g worth, I made adjustments to the marinade (and seasoning) accordingly but I did bump up the black pepper a bit more.

Method:

Pour the marinade into a saucepan and bring to a simmer.

Simmer until the sauce thickens and is reduced by half (about 4 minutes).

Season the chicken and pour the reduced marinade (once cooled) over the chicken.  Get your hands in there to ensure the marinade is rubbed all over the chicken.  Stick it back into the fridge for a couple of hours (or at least an hour) to let the flavours develop.

When you're ready to cook, take the chicken out from the fridge and let it come to room temperature. Arrange the chicken wing pieces on a lined tray.  Pour what's left of the marinade over the chicken.

Preheat oven to 200°C and bake for 25 - 30 minutes.  You can choose to turn your wings halfway through to get a more even charring on all sides (I did that).  But if you choose not to and only char the presentation side, you can too but your wings will need a shorter cook time (probably 20 minutes will do).

The end result....lovely sticky-sweet-garlicky-savoury Sticky Honey Soy Chicken Wings y'all!

Serve that with a side salad and some potato wedges...and you have yourself a complete meal of protein, carbs and veggies.

And because the marinade has garlic, ginger and soy in the mix, it goes very well in a Chinese meal of rice-with-dishes set-up too.

To make life easier, you don't even have to make your own salad and fries.  Just get those pre-washed salad leaves in a packet and ready-made potato wedges from Aeon...and heat/crisp up the wedges in the oven toaster when you're ready to serve.  How easy is that? ^_*

Come to think of it, this makes a great dinner party menu as the main course, don't you think?  So easy to put together (since the chicken wings and marinade can be prepped ahead of time), all you need to do is to concentrate on roasting a lot of chicken wings! :P

Ah, forget about the fork....let's not be dainty about it.  Just get in there with your fingers...after all, it's finger lickin' good! ^o^

Ideally serves 2 small eaters as a main meal...but it could also be finished by one famished person.