Honey Soy Chicken Wings

How long can you marinate chicken wings?

The good thing about this simple honey soy combination is that the flavours come together in a very short marinade time. 

As with all chicken marinating, the time that you choose depends on how much time you have up your sleeve.

If you are very hungry, aim for 30 mins if you can wait that long. 

Go for 8 hours (overnight) if you are super organised.

The flavours will increase, but even during at the short marinate time  you are sure to infuse deliciousness into the meat, so a short marinade time is perfectly fine!

How do you make honey soy chicken wings?

To make Honey Soy Chicken Wings we start with mixing our ingredients together for our marinade.

The photo below shows you the ingredients for this recipe. We have honey, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, chilli, dried onion, salt and pepper. You can also see the type of wings that we are going to cook.

Packing lots of flavour into the marinade ensures the wings will blow your socks off. The marinade has 8 simple ingredients, many of which you are likely to have in your home already!

What are chicken nibbles?

For the wings, you have a couple of choices. You can buy chicken wings and cut them into smaller portions or you can purchase nibbles or nibblets at your local grocery store. This is where the butcher has cut the wing into 3 pieces. I find these handy for wings if I have less time.

If you prefer to buy the wings as a whole, you can do that, but you will need to cut them in 3 pieces and cut the tips off as you go.

Chicken wings are very common at the grocery store. You can find them in the deli area, meat section or local butcher.

When making honey soy chicken wings follow this process

For marinades, I combine the ingredients in a large jar. I recommend you do too. As this way you can seal and shake it. Sure you can put the ingredients in a jug and stir it, but I find the shaking really helps to get the ingredients consistently mixed and it only takes about 2 mins to do.

Once that is done,  transfer your wings into a large zip lock bag. Then simply pour over your marinade and seal shut.

Then we need to leave it sit in the fridge for a least 20 minutes or overnight.You can use this time to prepare a salad, side dish or simply relax.

How long can you marinate chicken wings?

The marinade time for chicken wings can be flexible.

If you are starving and looking to eat sooner rather than later, then keep your marinade time short, but you can leave them in the fridge overnight if you are super organised and want to maximise the flavours.

How do you make honey soy chicken wings?

To make honey soy chicken wings you need to follow some simple steps.

Once your wings are marinated, you need to cook them in the oven. Use a baking tray to do this initial step. 

I find marinades and baking trays can be a little bit messy, so 9 times out of 10, I use either grease proof paper or alfoil to line the bakeware. This way there is less cleaning up and quite frankly ain't nobody got time for that!

Once your baking tray is lined (turn your oven on to preheat at this stage), grab the marinade bag from the fridge and tip the contents into the lined baking tray. For a more refined method of doing this, you can use tongs for the wings, then pour the marinade over.

As the wings are such small portions the excess liquid in the tray won't slow down cooking too much (it does for chicken legs). But we do this as we also want to use that marinade to serve our wings (just a little) and this will cook nicely for that.

How to cook chicken wings in the oven?

The photo below shows you the marinated chicken wings in the baking tray ready for the oven.

We cook them like this for 30 - 40 mins, turning ½ way by pulling the tray out and using your tongs to rotate the pieces around to the other side.

Once that time is up, take a skewer and pierce it near the bone at the thickness part of one of the pieces. If the juices run clear they are done.

Oven Baked Chicken Wings

They are perfectly delicious and ready for eating at this stage. BUT, there is one final stage if you want to crisp up the skin and it takes them from pretty good to AMAZING!!

The pic on the right shows you the cooked wings on an oven rack over a lined baking tray. We transfer the wings to this tray and then we grill them for about 10 - 15 mins.

You might remember that we did this method for our Slow Cooker Lemon Garlic Chicken to crisp up the skin by placing it under the broiler for 10 mins. You can check that out here as a guide.

Can I freeze chicken wings?

You can freeze chicken wings.

If you are going to do that, it is best to freeze them when the marinade is in the bag. Then at a later date, you can grab the ziplock bag out of the freezer defrost, and then cook.

That is easy if you have more time on the weekends and less during the week.

Chicken wings are crowd favourites at social gatherings, make sure you have serviettes handy for sticky fingers!! 

Honey Soy Chicken wings questions answered:

About the recipe:

• this recipe uses pre-cut chicken wings
• dried onion provides flavour but saves time and tears!
• the garlic and ginger are both minced
• you can use any honey you like
• the marinade will stretch to cook 1kg of these or you can double the batch

Your quick questions answered:

1. preheat your oven to make cooking the wings faster
2. pour the whole marinade from the bag into your baking tray
3. you can freeze the honey soy marinade bag with the wings in it
4. serve with sides, a salad or own their own
5. chilli in the recipe is not overpowering to taste
6. This is an EASY recipe

This is the best honey soy chicken recipe and you are going to impress your guests with it!

Chicken Wing recipes for dinner

If this chicken wing recipe makes you want to make wings every day forever then here are some other marinade ideas:

• Honey Garlic Chicken Wings
• Chili Lime Chicken Wings
• Buffalo Wings
• BBQ wings
• Honey Mustard Chicken Wings

For the perfect sauce pairing (I'm talking dunking!!) try the Herb Yoghurt Sauce.

Or you might want to warm your belly with some comfort foods, in which case, check out the below dishes.

Comfort Food ideas

• Chicken Thighs in Creamy Garlic Wine Sauce (one pot recipe)
• Blue Cheese Mac and Cheese (vegetarian recipe)
• Beef Bean Pasta Bake (family favorite)
• Meatball Tomato Soup (one of my favourites) 

What goes well with chicken wings?

To serve your chicken wings, try one of the following sides:

• Creamy Garlic Potatoes
• Horseradish Mashed Potatoes
• Skin on Roast Potatoes (with rosemary and thyme)
• Duck Fat Roast Potatoes

The toasted sesame seeds and sliced shallots are the perfect garnish! Not to mention simple as well. The seeds will stick to the outside of your wings giving them texture and an authentic Asian style presentation.

Enjoy!

Adrianne

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