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The best chicken wings ever? Perhaps, but that’s not a debate happening on this page! The culinary man, the myth, the legend. Gordon Ramsay is arguably one of the most popular and acclaimed celebrity chefs that’s ever lived. With multiple smash hit TV shows, 17 Michelin Stars across all of his restaurants, and from it all, fame that most people aspire to.
Ramsay put his chicken wing recipe on social media and did a walk through of how he cooks them. They are a super simple recipe of basic spices to season, then pan searing, and finishing in the oven. While this is a typical restaurant recipe and cooking format, I wanted to adapt it to something that the home and backyard cook could enjoy and take to another level of flavor. That’s exactly what I did.
Let’s Prep:
Get ready like Ramsay
The preparation on this recipe is very simple. If needed, separate your chicken wings removing and discarding the tips, then separating the drums from the flappers. This will be the most complicated part of the entire recipe. The initial rub/seasoning for this recipe consists of simply 3 ingredients: Salt, Smoked Paprika, Garlic Powder. Make sure that each wing is covered well to ensure even flavor. Once that is done it’s time for the first step in the cooking process – the sear.
Let’s Cook:
Let’s eat some chicken wings!
Once your chicken wings are seasoned and coated well, it’s time to get some oil in a pan and begin to sear the chicken wings. This will start building the layers of flavor, assisted by adding in a few pats of butter. As the chicken wings begin to cook not only will a crust begin to form on them, but the heat will force water out of the chicken wings and they will begin to shrink up some.
This causes the meat on the chicken wings to pull up from the bottom on the drumsticks leaving you with a lollipop look where the bone is sticking out of the bottom giving you a nice clean handle to grab onto as you eat.
One of the best parts of this part of the cook is adding in black pepper halfway through. According to Ramsay this is the best time to season with pepper so that it doesn’t burn, as pepper can do at high temps.
Once the chicken wings are done in the pan, it’s time for my recipe to kick in. Put your chicken wings on a wire rack and move them to a preheated smoker. Continuing to add layers of flavor to this recipe is what it’s all about. to make moving them on and off the smoker much easier.
Lay your chicken wings out on a wire rack Additionally if you’re cooking a large amount of chicken wings, this will make cooking more even and predictable. With enough wings you could be looking at an additional 5 minutes of cooking time by moving wings one at a time. Make it easier for yourself!
Once your chicken wings have reached a temperature between 180F – 200F and they’ve got a nice golden color on them it’s time to remove from the smoker and sauce with Ramsay’s sauce recipe (listed below). It’s a very basic sauce recipe, consisting of your favorite hot/wing sauce and some butter along with the drippings from the pan that you seared in. This will have boiled out any bacteria or germs from the initial cooking, so all that’s left is flavor!
Let’s Eat:
Serve these chicken wings with your favorite dipping sauce. I prefer either ranch or blue cheese to balance out the spices in the wings. If you’ve tried this – or are going to, please leave me a comment below and tell me what you think.
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Gordon Ramsay’s Wings
Ingredients
- 3 lbs Chicken Wings separated
- 1 tbsp Garlic Powder
- 1 tbsp Smoked Paprika
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 TBSP avocado oil
- 8 tbsp butter unsalted
- Hot Sauce to taste
- 2 tbsp Black Pepper
Instructions
- Preheat your smoker to 225F
- In a bowl, add Garlic Powder, Smoked Paprika, and Salt to the wings and mix well to cover evenly
- Add oil to a pan and let it get hot, but not to the point that it smokes
- Add seasoned wings and allow to get a sear on one side, add black pepper
- Sear on opposite side then remove from heat and put entire pan into smoker
- After 10 minutes flip wings to ensure even smoke flavor
- Raise temperature to 350F
- Remove wings from pan and add to wire rack or directly on the smoker
- Cook for about 5-10 minutes until desired crispiness has been reached
- Remove from grill and in a bowl with the wings add 4 TBSP butter, 1/2C of juice from the pan and hot sauce to taste
- Garnish with fresh parsley (optional)
- Mix well and serve hot
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