The Ultimate Baked Sticky Chicken Wings

Finger licking sticky chicken wings. Oven baked with an American style maple syrup and bourbon sauce. An easy recipe resulting in delicious, caramelized, fall off the bone, baked chicken wings.

What I love about these sticky chicken wings is how easy they are to make. Easy with the best results possible. Juicy and tender chicken wings with a flavour packed and delicious barbecue style glaze.

The maple syrup and bourbon are given a depth of flavour with the addition of brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, and tomato sauce (ketchup). Perfect sweet and savoury stickiness.

Along with my Japanese style teriyaki chicken wings these wings are completely moorish and addictive.

Sara xxx

What to eat with Baked Chicken Wings

The wings are great as a snack with drinks, or as part of a game day feast when watching the end of season playoffs. They are also fantastic as part of a larger spread of food when entertaining.

These wings are mild and if you want to spice things up I would serve them with a couple of hot sauces on the side.

As far as being part of a buffet or larger spread of food, they work well with the following.

• Crispy Oven Baked Polenta Chips
• Baby Sushi, Hosomaki
• Vege Crudité Platter
• Cheeseburger Spring Rolls
• Mini Teriyaki Chicken Burgers
• Pork, Bacon, and Cheese Sausage Rolls
• Hawaiian Macaroni Salad
• Dill Pickle Pasta Salad

Ingredients

A full printable recipe card can be found at the end of this post with recipe ingredient measurements and method.

1. Chicken Wings: To make life easier buy chicken wingettes. These are chicken wings that have been broken down into mid wing and mini drumette pieces. If buying whole chicken wings, remove and discard the tips and use the two meatier sections, mid wing and drumette.
2. Maple Syrup: If you can use pure maple syrup it makes all the difference to the consistency of the sauce and taste.
3. Bourbon: You could use whisky as well. It can be omitted if avoiding alcohol. Orange juice makes a nice alternative for flavour.
4. Tomato Sauce: Also known as ketchup, the thick sweet tomato sauce you put on burgers (or some of us do).
5. Worcestershire Sauce: It adds a nice punch to the maple glaze.
6. Tobasco Sauce: For a little added mild heat.
7. Brown Sugar: It ramps up the caramelized factor of the sticky chicken wings.
8. Apple Cider Vinegar: White wine vinegar could be used as an alternative.

How to Make Sticky Chicken Wings

Scroll to the bottom of the page for a printable version of this recipe.

• Preheat oven 200°C/395°F.
• In a saucepan place sauce ingredients and bring to a boil. Simmer until the liquid has reduced by half.
• Line a large baking dish with baking paper (I do this to make cleaning up easier). Place chicken wings in the baking dish and pour the maple bourbon sauce over them. Mix and coat wings well in the sauce.
• Place the baking dish in the oven and cook for 40 minutes. Make sure to stir and turn the wings a couple of times.
• After 40 minutes turn the oven temperature up to 250°C/480°F. Cook for a further 30-40 minutes, turning wings every so often, minutes until wings are golden brown.
• Serve immediately with eager fingers and lots of napkins.

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Ultimate Baked Sticky Chicken Wings

Recipe Author: Sara McCleary

Finger licking sticky chicken wings. Oven baked with an American style maple syrup and bourbon sauce. An easy recipe resulting in delicious, caramelized, fall off the bone, baked chicken wings.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr 35 minutes mins

Course Canapés &amp, Snacks

Cuisine American

Servings 4 people

Calories 474 kcal

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 kg (2.2 lbs) chicken wings | mid wing and drumettes
• ▢ 125 ml (½ cup) maple syrup
• ▢ 85 ml (? cup) bourbon
• ▢ 60 ml (¼ cup) ketchup | tomato sauce
• ▢ 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
• ▢ 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• ▢ 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven 200°C/395°F.
• In a saucepan place all ingredients except the chicken wings. Bring to the boil, and simmer until the liquid has reduced by half.
• Line a large baking dish with baking paper. (I do this to make cleaning up easier).

  Place chicken wings in the baking dish and pour the maple bourbon sauce over them. Mix and coat wings well in the sauce.
• Place baking dish in the oven and cook for 40 minutes. Make sure to stir and turn the wings a couple of times.
• After 40 minutes turn the oven temperature up to 250°C/480°F. Cook for a further 30-40 minutes, turning wings every so often, minutes until wings are golden brown.
• Serve immediately with eager fingers and lots of napkins.

Oven Temperatures

All oven temperatures are fan forced.

Measurement Notes

All measurements are Australian metric standard. All measures are level, and cups are lightly packed unless specified. 1 teaspoon = 5ml / 1 tablespoon = 20mls / 1 cup = 250ml /4 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon.

Recipe Notes

GENERAL COOK’S NOTES

All oven temperatures are fan-forced, increase the temperature by 20 Deg C (70 Deg F) for convection ovens.

All measurements are Australian tablespoons and cups. All measures are level, and cups are lightly packed unless specified.

1 teaspoon equals 5ml

1 tablespoon equals 20 ml (Nth America, NZ & UK use 15ml tablespoons)

1 cup equals 250ml (Nth America use 237ml)

4 teaspoons equal 1 tablespoon

I use the below unless specified in my recipes.

Herbs are fresh | Vegetables are of a medium size | Eggs are roughly 60 grams in weight (large).

 

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION BELOW IS A GUIDE ONLY

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION

The recipe's nutritional information is an approximation based on an online calculator. It is meant solely for reference purposes. If you're looking for precise details, be sure to double-check with your own research.

Calories: 474kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 24gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 103mgSodium: 321mgPotassium: 368mgSugar: 27gVitamin A: 275IUVitamin C: 3.1mgCalcium: 60mgIron: 1.6mg

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