I was thinking of doing some kind of chicken wing glazed with an Asian-style peanut sauce, but texturally wanted something a little stickier. That brought thoughts of a possible peanut butter and jelly collaboration, which came into final focus after a brilliant suggestion by Michele to use pepper jelly.
The result was a spicy, sticky, and, thanks to the peanut sauce base, quite unusual chicken wing-eating experience. If you're a fan of satay, you should enjoy this approach. As I mention in the video, this recipe can be easily adapted, and finding unique brands of pepper jelly would be just one way to tweak it.
With the NFL playoffs in full swing, it’s time to raise your game when it comes to the snack table. Have your Buffalo wings become too predictable? Has that ranch dip lost a step? Then I hope you consider shaking up the roster with these spicy peanut butter and pepper jelly wings. Enjoy!
Ingredients for 40 pieces of Peanut Butter & Pepper Jelly Chicken Wings:
For the wings:
5 pounds chicken wing sections, thawed, patted very dry
toss with…
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp kosher salt
1 tsp black pepper
cayenne to taste
1/4 cup instant mashed potato powder or flakes
*Bake at 425 for about 50 minutes, turning once
For the sauce:
1/4 cup smooth peanut butter
1/4 cup pepper jelly
2 tbsp soy sauce
1/4 cup seasoned rice vinegar
2 tbsp fish sauce
sriracha hot sauce to taste
4 cloves crushed garlic
1/2 tsp red chili flakes
1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
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no offence but this sounds like a weird (horrible) combination...
No offense taken, especially since these tasted soooo good. ;-)
Soo many chicken wing recipes, but I would still like a blue cheese dipping sauce recipe
Looks great! Can't wait to try it! Which type of oven fry do you prefer? The one you use here or the one in your soy-ginger-garlic wings? Are they interchangeable?
These sound great! We had PBJ on french fries at a food truck in Portland. It was actually a spicy sate sauce with raspberry jelly. Delish! Thanks for another great recipe.
they both work, but i think I prefer this method.
Chef, I thought I would let you know that I have come to the conclusion- if I'm ever extremely wealthy in life, I will just have to pay you to experiment and make video recipes full time.
my wife would like to know how you clean your silpat. Especially with the rendered fat all over the place..recipe looks awesome. I'm gonna go eat a cookie.
just hot soapy water! thanks!
Welp, you win and you called it, Chef John. Today for lunch I was eating my peanut butter and jelly sandwich and wishing it had bones in it and tasted like chicken. As a part of my New Years resolution was I attempting to be on a diet where I stayed away from chicken wings and other fun foods, but alas your post made me be honest with myself: I simply love food too much to deprive myself of the simple pleasures like peanut butter and jalapeno jelly (both of which i have sitting in my fridge) smeared on some old fashion chicken wings. Sounds like a nice love affair between my tongue and some wings, so I think I will (as you say) enjoy some wing-age sometime soon..
(and let's face it, my dream of having a garish six pack of abs is no where close to happening. I'll stick with my nice gooey physique and keep on cooking the fun stuff... like peanut butter and jelly pinch pies.)
Somehow, I would also sprinkle sesame seeds over the wings.
It's pretty bone-larious of you to make that bone joke twice! I find myself saying "this is really good, but I kind of wish it had bones in it" when I'm eating random things.
That's pretty bone-larious of you to make that bone joke twice! I often find myself quoting or paraphrasing "man, this is really good, but I kind of wish it had bones in it" when I'm eating random things, thankfully my girlfriend finds it funny, as long as I don't overuse it.
Hi Chef,
Any way to make my own pepper jelly?
I'm excited to try these. I never told you this but when I was dating my husband I made your ginger garlic wings for him, and he was hooked :-)He said he knew then that he would marry me. After I gave him my foodwishes.com secret, he sent the video link to his mom and all of his friends.
How nessisary is a silpat mat?
You can use non-stick foil, but silpat works so well.
oh my gosh chef john how come you're so funny? this is so down my alley and a lot of my male companions of course. i'm giving it a go next time guys want to invite the wives to sit around and talk shoppin...i mean watch football. (anyways my mouth is still watering. thnx!)
Chef John I'm a viewer from Taiwan. I found your youtube channel bout 2 years ago and I really enjoyed it ever since. I bought some new tools with me to the kitchen, a nice set of Zwilling knives. But iI really don't know how to maintain them and keep them nice and healthy, so could you please do a vedio about how to maintain knives? Forgive me if you already did maybe I just didn't find it!! THANK YOU!!!!
Sounds MUCH better than the recipe title would suggest.
#unknown - Google abounds with recipes for making your own jalapeno jelly. Apple jelly mixed with chopped pickled jalapenos can be used as a substitute and since this all about making it your own I think a sweet-hot, asian style BBQ or chili sauce might be in the same ballpark for flavour.
Chef John, you should check out Chef Andy Ricker's recipe for Vietnamese fish sauce wings. They will change your life. I think I saw God the first time I bit into one (or it may have been one of Portland's resident street kids. It can be hard to tell sometimes.) If you're not familiar, Ricker won the James Beard Best Chef in the Northwest Award in 2011. I'm sure you were a close second, though. ;)
These look incredible, as well. I'll have to give them a try!
why do you add acid in most of the sauces
These sound so perfectly delicious. I am definitely going to try them soon!
sir, i really admire the way you have presented each and every recipe video online!!
Hey Chef John,
Would a sprinkling of corn starch work instead of the potato stuff?
Made these last night and everyone agreed they were delicious!
Thank you for making it look so simple and easy.
I've been doing all sorts of wing recipes for a few weeks in anticipation of my first super bowl party (well, my first hosting duty), and this one was fantastic!
I'd never used pepper jelly before, so the one I grabbed ended up having an almost honey flavor to it. It gave them a subtle sweet aftertaste that was fantastic.
We had them without dip (we thought they didn't need it), but I'm assuming our guests will be grumpy without the option. Any suggestions?
For a second I thought you were going to say, "Give it the ole tossa, tossa."
hey chef john,
i want to make these but instead of instant mash potatoes can i use bread crumbs or panko bread crumbs? would it give the same crispy-ish texture?
Ok...this, as with every recipe of yours I've ever tried, was OFF THE CHAIN! Even with no sauce they were off the chain! I actually even bought some sriracha hot sauce, so I feel as if I'm an official Chef John groupie now...
I had a Chef John weekend practice before Super Bowl made crispy onion rings, peanut butter and pepper jelly hot wings, pizza dough with homemade pizza sauce!!! It was great ate it all....I will ditto that Super Bowl weekend. Thank you Chef John even my husband is amazed at all your cooking!!!! So glad I found your site
Chef John, I know you have something against vegetarians but I decided to make this recipe exactly as described but with extra-firm tofu cut into chicken wing-sized sticks instead of chicken wings (and just more soy sauce instead of fish sauce). This was some of the best tofu I've ever had! To any vegetarians out there, just sub tofu and try it out. The sauce is amazing, by the way.
Is there a substitute for the potato buds?
Flour!
Chef John, OMG!! You have done it again. Just made these and they are WONDERFUL!!!!
I did take it and run with it though like you said to do. Did not have fish sauce..had oyster sauce instead. Did not have rice wine vinegar...had sherry instead. Did not have your hot sauce..but had tobasco instead. They turned out absolutely WONDERFUL!!! THANK YOU!!
Lisa in Atlanta
P.S. It's pizza and wings for dinner...made the no knead pizza crust of yours yesterday.
Fantastic! Made these today and am making again this week! Best wings I've ever had. Thank you again, chef.
We delighted in these chicken wings at a super bowl party. And we came home with the recipe. A real winner.
Many thanks....
Replaced the wings with boneless skinless breat. Totes Awesome!
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You are weird and I like it.
I tried this method of using mashed potato powder to bake some fish fillets, but it did not work out :(
My son has a peanut allergy so I used soy nut butter (I.M. Healthy) and it was just as good as peanut butter. Just thought I would let those with allergies know there is an option that works just as well...Cheers.
I wanna know how to make pepper jelly, too :) Since its one of your "Five Fresh Secret Ingredients"...
Finally trying these for the first time tonight. Terribly excited. All of our friends refuse to eat wings out anymore since I have finally learned to cook them. They say they're better than any of the local places and I say, "Well, that's thanks to Chef John." Thank you!!!
Ii tried these and they were fantastic!!!
Will be making these soon! Sound yummy.
i had to change recepie a bit since in small Polish town we can't get some ingredients for this dish... and it came AWESOME. i'm "addicted" to chicken and it was one of the best i had. BIG thank you from Poland sir.
HA ha. Peanut butter jelly time! These were great! My wife thought I was crazy...... Then she tasted them! She goes mmmm got any more of them? LOL. Was thinking of tweaking this some how next time to make some kind of sweet/sour type wing. But still loved the original too. :) thanks, Joe V.
i made pbj wings (j=grape jelly) on a whim and they were awesome. But i was thinking out of the box and wondered what i could do to incorperate a bite of heat in the pb and still keep the sticky sweet jelly component to the wings... and then i came across your site my man. I am trying the satay sauce with a sweet jelly asap and the i'll try the pepper jelly the next time.
i made pbj wings (j=grape jelly) on a whim and they were awesome. But i was thinking out of the box and wondered what i could do to incorperate a bite of heat in the pb and still keep the sticky sweet jelly component to the wings... and then i came across your site my man. I am trying the satay sauce with a sweet jelly asap and the i'll try the pepper jelly the next time.
i made pbj wings (j=grape jelly) on a whim and they were awesome. But i was thinking out of the box and wondered what i could do to incorperate a bite of heat in the pb and still keep the sticky sweet jelly component to the wings... and then i came across your site my man. I am trying the satay sauce with a sweet jelly asap and the i'll try the pepper jelly the next time.
does this recipe taste very peanut buttery? i think it looks good and im so tempted to try but i wanna make sure before that my husband will think the same...
Making this for the second time tonight. Sooo good.
I just made these tonight. They were AWESOME and so easy to make. I'm gonna definitely makes these for the next party! Thank you!
instead of chili flakes and garlic can i use a chili garlic sauce. it looks like sambal?
Would it be foolish to use thai peanut sauce in place of peanut butter?
Is there a substitute for the instant mashed potato flakes?
I made these a couple of nights ago and they were pretty darned good. I don't know if they were as good as they could have been cuz I didn't have any fish sauce so I subbed Oyster sauce in it's place. I have no idea what flavor fish sauce brings compared to oyster. MMy wife loved them as I but I do think the oyster sauce over powered the peanut butter. I agree, they do not replace deep frying but I'll do them this way again! Now, off to find the Panda wings recipe! cheers!
Yes, fish sauce and oyster sauce are completely different, and I can't imagine that oyster sauce working in these, but I'm glad they came out okay! Fish sauce is much closer to soy sauce, and you should definitely pick up a bottle for future recipes.
I made the basic recipe, subbing some teriyaki sauce for the PBJ. BOY do I love this technique! The wangs were indeed super-crispy, and I can't wait A) to try out the potato-buds technique on some roasted chix thighs, and B) to try the PBJ sauce.
No joking around when I say this: best damn wings in town, no....the PLANET...still not cutting it. Best damn wings in the cosmos. Thank you chef Jon, you truly are a master with flavors of the known universe.
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