Date and Chili Buffalo Chicken Wings

You can’t beat buffalo chicken wings as finger food and these are pimped up with dates and a scotch bonnet chili in the glaze.

Date and Chili Buffalo Chicken Wings, Grab Your Chapstick!

All things considered, buffalo chicken wings are my favourite finger food… For me, they must be sticky sweet and spicy hot because that’s the way I roll!

These date and chili buffalo chicken wings unsurprisingly tick both of those boxes.

The chili world seems to have gone crazy of late with ever hotter bastard varieties being developed, but for me, the big boy chili is the scotch bonnet.

Now the scotch bonnet is very similar to the habanero in terms of punch however the sweet flavour reserves its place in my favourite list. It is also the key chili in my jerk chicken recipe.

However these wings do come with a word of warning, do not wipe your eyes after preparing them, you will cry… Well, I cried!

Serve with a cold glass of beer and some potato wedges.

A Sweet Hot Date!

The second ingredient of note in these buffalo wings is dates.

I find it surprising that they do not appear in more glaze recipes.

They are gloriously sweet and sticky and as a result, when stewed down with a little vinegar and sugar they form a perfect sweet and sour glaze.

In fact, dates have long been used as a sweetener, particularly when the cost of sugar was so high!

I adore cooking wings, these date and chili bad boys join 4 other wing recipes here on Krumpli.

We also span the cooking methods too with baked grilled and fried all being covered.

Other wing recipes on Krumpli:

• Hot wings.
• Lemon Pepper Grilled Chicken Wings.
• BBQ Sriracha Glazed Chicken Wings.
• Crispy Spiced Fried Chicken Wings.

How to Bake Buffalo Chicken Wings.

Whilst I am not averse to frying things, as a general rule I do not do it often. 

Unlike cooking and eating wings which I do all of the time.  Because of this most of the time I make baked wings, or grilled of course.

These are baked and I like to add corn flour or cornstarch to the dry spicing mix.

This helps add a nice crispness to the wings for the same reason it adds a crunch to the batter on my fish and chip recipe.

Other than that it is a simple case of cooking in a very hot oven.

It is best to ensure that air can circulate below as well as above by cooking on a grid.

Why Are Buffalo Chicken Wings Called That?

Surely I am not the only person who has asked this question.

Cuz let’s face it, buffalo wings are massive, or buffalo wings don’t exist… Either way, the name is daft!

Well, it is daft until a bit of research, they are actually named after the home city of the bar that made them popular.

Back in the 1960’s wings were cheap as chips (and still are to a degree) and really used for soups and stocks.

Rumour has it the owners of a bar called the ‘Anchor Bar’ in Buffalo added them to the menu and the legend was born!

As with all of these things, there are claims and counterclaims. However, whichever bar/restaurant did it first it was in Buffalo.