Buffalo Wings - the Sauce!

Hi, I'm Chilli Gal, a huge big fan of Chris and Rosie's enterprise, and a potential chilli foster parent for this year's crop of the freah stuff. As a gardener and a foodie chillis and tomatoes (with the odd aubergine) are about the only things I like growing and eating. It's been fab to hook up with such aficionados and in Lincoln, too!

Anyhoo - today's review is of Buffalo Wing sauce (Original)- purchased from Volcano Chilli last week.

So, if you don't want to plough through my effusive review - JUST BUY IT. If you do, and you want some cook's tips, read on.

The jar reckons about 3/4 cup (I reckon about 75ml) of sauce to 12-15 wings. Well, that's generous. However, I have found that chicken wings in the UK are bought 'whole' - i.e. wing tips attached to middle bits attached to end bits. These are fine, but if you are at all adept with a cleaver or sharp knife DO separate them into top bit middle bit and bin the wing tip. It just makes eating/sharing easier.

You basically cook the wings - I have a natural antipathy towards frying things that can be oven baked, but I have to admit that I think deep frying them would actually add to the texture experience. However, you cook off your wings, you whack them in a big bowl and you pour the lovely buffalo wing sauce over them, then stir them up to coat them.

And fab. The sauce is sharp, hot, thin enough to run into all the little crevices on the chicken skin, thick enough to be able to be dipped into by the celery sticks that you'll love to eat with them. Blue cheese dressing/dip is always a cooling fave in the big chains in the UK (can't speak for the US - will have to go back and try :-) In desperation, I used a couple of tablespoons of Brianna's Blue Cheese salad dressing, and crumbled some St Agur creamy blue cheese into it for the lumpy effect! Worked a treat.

The interesting thing is that the wings, plus the celery plus the blue cheese dippy thing kept son and husband and me happy and we didn't need anything else to eat that night. Try and use decent chicken (pllllleeeeeeeassssssse!) and do't stress if you can't be bothered/aren't able to butcher the wings to small bits - they still tasted superb, as the evil border terriers will testify, who jumped on the table whilst we were out of the room and finished off the leftover wings.....oops.

Get yourself down to Volcano Chilli, get a jar of Buffalo Wings sauce and some wings. Miles cheaper the TGIs or the like and whole load more tasty I reckon. Enjoy

Next time - Buffalo Wings HOT sauce. And some photos, hopefully.

Heat up Chilli Fans! See you in Lincoln Market!

Chilli Gal.