Maple Crispy Chicken Wings

Sometimes recipes are born from random thoughts! This time, I wanted to make some chicken wings, but I also wanted a salad. It was at that moment I decided to make a chicken wing salad and served it with some jollof rice on the side.

Recipe

• 1 pound buffalo wings
• 1/2 or 1 ata rodo/scotch bonnet pepper
• 1/4 onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• Thumb size ginger
• 1 tsp curry
• 1 tbsp fresh thyme
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 cup flour
• 1tsp black pepper
• 1tsp salt
• 1 cube Knorr
• 2 tbsps Essie Spice – Mekko dry rub
• 3 tbsps yaaji (suya) pepper
• 1tsp curry
• Oil for frying
• Maple syrup

Preparation

• Wash chicken wings and place in a clean bowl.
• In a blender, blend the onion, pepper, ginger, and garlic together.
• Pour blended ingredients into bowl of chicken. Add in Knorr, thyme and olive oil. Poke wings with a knife and mix well . Leave wings to marinate for about an hour or more.
• In a separate bowl, combine flour, black pepper, two tbps yaaji, salt and curry – mix well.
• Let marinate for about two to three hours. When the wings are well seasoned, heat some oil for frying.
• Remove wings one at a time and fully coat in flour mix, then drop in hot oil. Repeat process until all wings are finished.
• When wings are done, drizzle with maple syrup.

For the salad

• Cut up the lettuce, fresh is always the best option.
• Dress lettuce with croutons and fried wings. Then sprinkle some more yaaji (suya) pepper on the wings.
• Finish off with your Caesar salad dressing (cream).