RECIPE: Ginger beer & honey chicken wings

These sticky chicken wings are served with a creamy chilli and lime yoghurt sauce for dipping - yum!

28 February 2016 - 02:00 By Hein van Tonder
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Ginger beer & honey chicken wings These sticky chicken wings are served with a creamy chilli and lime yoghurt sauce for dipping - yum!

Ginger beer & honey chicken wings

These sticky chicken wings are served with a creamy chilli and lime yoghurt sauce for dipping - yum!


Image: Hein van Tonder

Serves: 3-4

Difficulty: Easy

Time: 2 hours 40 Minutes

Ingredients:

8-10 chicken wings, split

Marinade:

250ml (1 cup) ginger beer

1 thumb fresh ginger, grated

3 cloves of garlic, mashed

1 chilli, roughly chopped

Zest of 1 lime

2.5ml (½ tsp) salt

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Glaze:

45ml (3 tbsp) honey

20ml (1½ tbsp) soy sauce

15ml (1 tbsp) lime juice

Chilli & lime yoghurt dipping sauce:

60ml (¼ cup) double cream yoghurt

15ml (1 tbsp) lime juice

1 bird's eye chilli, finely chopped

Pinch of salt

Method:

1) Combine marinade ingredients and marinate the wings for at least 2 hours.

2) Preheat oven to 200°C and line a baking tray with baking paper.

3) Remove wings from marinade and place on the baking tray.

4) Mix the glaze ingredients and baste the wings with half of the glaze. Roast the basted wings for about 25 minutes until cooked through and golden brown, basting again after 10 minutes of roasting.

5) Mix the dipping sauce ingredients and serve with the hot wings.

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