Easy BBQ Chicken Wings
- PREP 15min
- COOK 45min
- TOTAL 1hrs
Sweet, smoky, and just a little spicy, the sauce for these baked BBQ chicken wings comes together in 5 minutes and is fantastic. If you have a favorite store-bought BBQ sauce, feel free to use it instead. Baking your wings on a rack inset to your baking sheet helps make them extra crispy, so if you have one, use it!
You Will Need
3 pounds (1.3kg) chicken wings, separated at joints, tips discarded
1 cup (250g) ketchup, try homemade ketchup
1/2 cup (100g) lightly packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon Sriracha chili sauce
1 teaspoon light soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
Directions
Heat oven to 400°F (204°C). Set a wire rack inside a large-rimmed baking sheet. Spray rack with nonstick cooking spray.
Make BBQ sauce: In a medium saucepan over medium heat, stir together the ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, Sriracha, cumin, and soy sauce. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until the sugar dissolves. Taste and adjust with additional soy sauce or sugar.
Divide the sauce in half, saving half for serving the wings.
Toss the chicken wings with the remaining half of BBQ sauce, and then place onto the prepared baking sheet.
Bake the chicken wings, turning once during cooking, until an internal thermometer registers 165°F, 35 to 45 minutes.
Serve the baked wings with the sauce you set aside earlier, either on the side or tossed with the chicken.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- No wire rack: If you do not have a wire rack that will fit inside a baking sheet, you can still make wings. Arrange them on the baking sheet, without the rack and rotate a few times during baking.
- BBQ sauce: You will need 1 ¼ cups barbecue sauce, homemade or store-bought.
- We have used the USDA database to calculate approximate values. 1 pound of wings will be 8 to 12 wings, depending on size.