Whether its game time or not, you cant go wrong with a visit to Buffalo Wild Wings. They have an astounding number of sauce options, really making it possible for everyone to get the basket of wings they want. Choose from traditional spicy buffalo flavors or melt-your-face-off Blazin hot sauce, or do something different with their zesty Asian Zing sauce or savory garlic Parmesan. No matter how you flavor them, they turn out piping hot, crispy, and coated with the perfect amount of sauce.
But what if you want your hot wings fix without having to go to a bar and spend a ton of money on appetizers and drinks? Is it really possible to make your favorite Buffalo Wild Wings copycat recipe at home? You bet you can! Although you can buy their sauce online or at their locations (weve also spied it at Costo from time to time), its just as easy to make their signature Medium Sauce at home. You can even customize it for your spice level if youre one of those crazy people who can handle the ghost peppers.
Does Buffalo Wild Wings cook their wings with or without batter? The boneless wings arrive breaded and frozen. The traditional (bone in) wings arrive refrigerated and without batter. Both are fried as they arrived; so boneless wings are breaded (with batter) and traditional wings are not breaded (without batter).
Gather your ingredients for this Buffalo Wild Wings copycat recipe
The first step to making a Buffalo Wild Wings copycat recipe was to investigate the ingredients the restaurant uses in the real-deal dish. Luckily, that was pretty easy for this recipe because the company sells their wing sauce on Amazon and we were able to take a peek at the ingredients list on the label. All we had to do was play around with the quantities until it tasted just right.
The ingredients list started with vinegar, red cayenne peppers, oil, xanthan gum, spices, garlic, and natural and artificial flavors. Thats almost all the ingredients in a bottle of Franks Red Hot Buffalo Wings Sauce, so we used that as the base of our Buffalo Wild Wings sauce. From there, we added extra garlic powder, granulated sugar, and cayenne to make it taste just like the Medium Sauce at Buffalo Wild Wings. Add in cornstarch and an egg to thicken it up, and finish it up with a splash of Worcestershire sauce to add the remaining ingredients on the list (onion, molasses, and tamarind).
For the full list of ingredients and the step-by-step instructions, check out the directions at the end of this article.
Make the sauce for this Buffalo Wild Wings copycat recipe
Its time to make the magic happen! Grab a small saucepan and get ready to create your new favorite chicken wing sauce. We start by adding almost all the sauce ingredients to the pot — the Franks Red Hot, cooking oil, granulated sugar, garlic powder, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and Worcestershire sauce. Bring the mixture up to a gentle bubble before reducing the heat to a simmer.
Then, whisk the water and cornstarch together in a small bowl to create whats called a slurry. You could try adding the cornstarch directly to the sauce, but whisking it with water first prevents any undesirable clumps. After you pour the cornstarch slurry into the pan, simmer the mixture for about five minutes, until it becomes nice and thick. Remove it from the heat and let it cool for about ten minutes.
Finally, its time to add the egg. Instead of adding the egg directly to the sauce, add the sauce to the egg — very, very slowly — to emulsify those oils into the egg yolk. In the end, youll have a beautiful, thick sauce that tastes pretty fantastic.
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