I love chicken wings. And I love coke. Let's combine my two loves!
Step 1: Marinate, then pan-fry chicken wings.
Step 2: Make a sauce with the marinade and coke.
Step 3: Combine chicken wings and sauce.
Step 4: Eat chicken wings with hands, so that sauce sticks to fingers. Fingers will taste better than said chicken wings. Lick 'em!
How to make lemon coke chicken wings
Step-by-step guide
Chicken wings are marinated and pan-fried. They're then coated with a sauce made by reducing coke. Whether you're 8 or 80 years old, so long as you have teeth, you'll love these lemony, sweet, sticky, fragrant chicken wings.
INGREDIENTS
INGREDIENTS
- 500 g chicken mid-joint wings – rinse, drain thoroughly
- 2 tsp grated lemon zest
- 2 tbsp Shaoxing wine
- 2 tbsp light soya sauce
- 2 cloves garlic, pounded
- 1/4 tsp ground white pepper
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp white sesame oil
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 240 ml regular coke
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp toasted white sesame seeds
- Thoroughly mix chicken with all marinade. Cover and refrigerate 12-24 hours, tossing chicken now and then so that marinade coats chicken as evenly as possible.
- Drain chicken, removing garlic if any. Bring to room temperature. Pan-fry in hot vegetable oil till golden brown, in 2 batches if necessary so that pan is not overcrowded. Remove chicken to a plate. Remove oil as well.
- Pour coke and marinade into pan. Boil on high heat till reduced to about one-quarter. Add sugar and lemon juice. Continue reducing till dark and thick. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. Add chicken wings and toss till well coated.
- Plate up and garnish with toasted white sesame seeds. Eat with hands. That's the proper thing to do.