cola wings recipe by bec vrana dickinson
If you’re in your dinner-party hosting era, you might like to check out this new cookbook: Happy Hour Snacks by Bec Vrana Dickinson. It’s filled with more-ish recipes that use fewer utensils (win) and more shortcuts (another win). Bec has kindly shared her recipe for cola wings with us, so if you’re into sweet, smokey, sticky chicken, then save this one for your next shindig!
This is an edited extract from Happy Hour Snacks by Bec Vrana Dickinson, published by Hardie Grant Books. Available in stores nationally from the September 3rd. Photography by Chris Chen.
IT’S A WING THING
Would you use knives and forks with a pizza? A burger? A hot dog? No. Cutlery is futile here, too. If there’s any time for sticky fingers, this is it. Submit to the stick and lick.
DRINK RUM ON THE ROCKS
SNACKS 4–6
COMMITMENT GO THE DISTANCE
NUT FREE
INGREDIENTS
35 g (11/4 oz) cornflour (cornstarch)
2 tablespoons smoked salt
2 tablespoons barbecue spice mix
2 tablespoons smoked paprika
1.5 kg (3 lb 5 oz) chicken wings
olive oil spray
600 ml (201/2 fl oz) Coke
125 ml (4 fl oz/1/2 cup) sriracha
250 ml (81/2 fl oz/1 cup) smoky barbecue sauce
60 ml (2 fl oz/1/4 cup) Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
TOPPER
sour cream
INGREDIENTS
Preheat the oven to 220°C (430°F). Line a baking tray with baking paper and top with a wire rack.
Combine the cornflour, smoked salt, barbecue spice mix, smoked paprika and a really good crack of black pepper in a large mixing bowl.
Add the wings and toss really well to coat. Spread out on the wire rack, skin side up. Give them a little spray with the oil. Bake for about 35 minutes or until cooked through.
Combine the Coke, sriracha, barbecue sauce, Worcestershire sauce and brown sugar in a saucepan. Bring to the boil over a high heat, then reduce the heat to medium–high and simmer until well reduced and sticky, about 20–25 minutes. Let cool.
Tip the wings onto a serving plate. Pour over the Coke sauce and toss to coat. Dollop on some sour cream.
THE SUBS
BARBECUE SPICE MIX / SMOKED PAPRIKA extra of either
SRIRACHA hot sauce of your choice
SMOKY BARBECUE SAUCE tomato sauce
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