Buffalo Wings

With Italian blue cheese dip

Mexican Stand Off

Serves 4 | Prep Time 30 Mins | Cook Time 20 Mins

Method

Step 1 - Flour Dredge

Pre heat deep fat fryer or sauce pan of veg oil to 180°C. Make the flour dredge - mix 300g plain flour with 5 tbsp of Mexican Stand Off Spice Blend in a mixing bowl. (Use gluten free flour instead if you have a gluten intolerance).

Step 2 - Beer batter

Pour a bottle of desperado beer into a mixing bowl with 1 tbsp of Mexican Stand Off Spice Blend and whisk in plain flour until a consistency of custard. (use gluten free beer, soda water or tonic water for any gluten intolerances).

Step 3 - Italian blue cheese dip

Melt 20g of butter in a sauce pan, add 1tbsp Amore D'Italia Spice Blend and gently cook for 1min. Once spice has infused the butter add 150ml of double cream and gently bring up to heat. Add in 60g of chopped blue cheese crumbs and stir until melted. (keep heat low as very easy to burn if on high heat). Pour into desired bowl and let it cool down at room temperature.

Step 4 - Buffalo sauce

Melt 50g of butter into a pan and add 1 tbsp of Mexican Stand Off Spice Blend. Gently cook spice for 1min then add in Valentina hot sauce with 50ml of apple cider vinegar mix well and reduce on a medium heat for 10 minutes. Once reduced leave sauce pan aside, you will need to re heat it later when you cook the wings.

Step 5 - The Wings

Cut off wing tips and cut wings in half over the joint. Once wings are cut place into your flour dredge, completely cover wings in flour, dust off any excess and pop them into the batter. After wings are coated in batter take out each wing and put them back into the flour dredge. Make sure wings are totally coated in the flour and put aside. You can do this in batches, once you have finished this process with all the wings, they are ready to be dropped into the fryer. Again you can do this in batches depending on the size of your fryer / pan. Cook chicken wings to 75°C internal temprature.

Step 6 - Magic shuffle

Re heat your buffalo sauce, once all the wings are cooked put them into a mixing bowl and add your buffalo sauce. Do a magic shuffle with the mixing bowl and coat the wings with the sauce. Serve wings with a sprinkle of chives, celery and blue cheese dip. Note well smile when shuffling.

Ingredients

Salted butter
70g
Plain flour
500g
Double cream
150ml
Blue cheese
60g
Apple cider vinegar
50ml
Valentina hot sauce
250ml
Mexican Stand Off Spice Blend
7 tbsp
Amore D'Italia Spice Blend
1 tbsp
Chicken wings
1kg