Sticky Mango Chicken Wings

Mango season is coming to an end, difficult to say goodbye as we are mango obsessed family. Finally decided to come up with this wonderful “Sticky Mango Chicken Wings”, kind of sweet, kind of spicy, kind of tangy with tons of flavour. The marinade takes care of the flavour part really well. Not to mention these wings are the perfect crowd pleasing starters.They are also so easy to whip up and cook up pretty quickly.This batch is oven baked, works lovingly well with barbecue.

These Chicken Wings are smothered with homemade mango marinade or chutney, then baked until tender and crispy with a perfectly caramelized skin.

Sticky Mango Chicken Wings

Pooja Yadav

These Chicken Wings are smothered with homemade mango marinade or chutney, then baked until tender and crispy with a perfectly caramelized skin

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 1 hr 10 mins

Total Time 1 hr 30 mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Servings 3

Equipment

• Oven

Ingredients

  

Batter

• ½ cup all purpose flour
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• ½ tsp crushed pepper
• ½ tsp Red chili flakes or to taste
• ½ tsp salt or to taste

Remaining Ingredients

• 8 chicken wings or 450gm chicken
• 1 mango pulp
• ¼ cup honey
• ½ tsp paprika or kashmiri chilli powder
• ½ tsp fennel
• ½ tsp toasted cumin
• 2-3 tbsp lime juice
• 3 habanero peppers, optional seeded or unseeded
• 1-2 jalepeno peppers, optional seeded or unseeded
• 1-2 sweet peppers/ Corno di toro rosso
• 1 birds eye chillies, optional seeded or unseeded
• 2 cloves garlic
• ½ inch ginger

Instructions

 

• Pat the chicken wings dry on a paper towel.In a mixing bowl, combine all purpose flour, red chili flakes, garlic powder, pepper powder and salt. Preheat oven to 220ºC.
• Batter the wings with seasoned flour ( garlic, pepper, chilli & salt). Place it for bake on a wired tray, flipping it half- way for around 50minutes. Bake at 220ºC.
  
• Next blitz fresh mango pulp, bird eye chillies, jalepeno, habanero & sweet peppers, garlic, ginger, lime juice,cumin paprika flakes & fennel.
• Place a pan on medium heat with few drop of cooking oil and transfer the blitz marinade.Add honey and salt to taste after transferring the mixture to a pan on medium heat.
• Let it simmer for 7-8 minutes. Stir to prevent sticking and switch off heat at desired consistency.
• Coat the flour battered cooked wings with mixture. Finally bake again for roughly 10minutes or until the mango sauce is slightly caramelised.
• Enjoy with rice and some fresh crunch

Notes

Alternatively a can of mango pulp would work well for off season.For busy days or weekends a cheat version, simply use a store bought mango chutney as marinate.

Am a kind of hot spicy person picked up sharp bird eye chillies, jalepeno and habanero peppers, is totally optional.
Play with heat to your taste be free to adjust the type & quantity to your spice tolerance & flavour. I feel the medley of 3 stirs in extra heat with huge flavours.

Seeded peppers or chillies deliver more heat, compared to unseeded, totally your preference.

I have used skinned chicken wings, love that crispy caramelised crust. Be free to replaced with de- skinned lot, totally your taste & choice.