Serve your chicken wings with an Asian twist. These Empress Chicken Wings are quickly marinated in a soy sauce and ginger marinade for a full flavored appetizer.
Want even more wing recipes? Try these Slow Cooker Barbecue Chicken Wings.
Years ago, My husband had been craving wings, and we had a bottle of sauce in the pantry. I had also been eyeing a recipe from one of my cookbooks for wings, so I thought I’d make a night of it and have wing night!
For the second wings – let’s just say I totally take the blame for completely messing these up. Instead of marinating the 1 hour that the recipe specified, I decided to marinate the wings all day long. So when I went to actually make them, the wings had already soaked up all of the marinade, so there was nothing left for the sauce. In my stupidity, I decided to make more of the marinade to turn into the sauce.
Let’s just say that that much soy sauce in one recipe is not a good thing. These were pretty inedible because they were so salty. Thank goodness the first wings were good, otherwise we would have been hitting a drive through that night!!
Luckily, I had the chance to go back and try that recipe again, learning from my mistakes. Because I would have been sad to miss out on this recipe!
I ended up changing up a few things the second time around, and definitely stuck with that 1 hour marinating time. And this recipe turned out to be a winner!
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Empress Chicken Wings
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs chicken wings disjointed, tips discarded
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2/3 cup water
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 2 green onions sliced
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
Instructions
- Combine the soy sauce, 1 tablespoon ginger and garlic in a large bowl. Add the chicken wings and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
- Place the cornstarch in a gallon size zip-top bag or large bowl. Remove the chicken wings from the marinade, reserving the marinade, and add the chicken to the cornstarch. Shake or toss to coat the chicken with the cornstarch.
- Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the chicken, working in batches if necessary to not crowd the pan, and brown on all sides. Remove the chicken to a plate.
- Drain the skillet. Place the skillet back on the burner and add the water, reserved marinade and brown sugar. Add the chicken back into the skillet and sprinkle with half of the green onions and the 1 teaspoon ginger. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and tender. Toss the chicken in the sauce before serving.
- Serve topped with the remaining green onions.
Paula says
How cool that you got a sample of that sauce! Both of those wings look amazing; too bad the one was too salty. Isn’t that a bummer when that happens? Especially after all that work. Glad you were able to eat the Country Bob’s wings, though! Man, now I want some wings!
Emily says
What the hay! Your photos look great! and your recipes sound fab!
Half Baked says
What bad photos?!? They look great to me. mmm chicken wings mmm
Rosie says
They look delicious and the pics look good too.
Rosie x
glamah16 says
I just love my Country Bob’s. I had a to much soy disater this week, so I know the feeling.
Jenny says
I see no bad pictures here girl! I love the looks of those finger licking chicken wings!
Dhanggit says
i love your bad photo sundays..coz normally the recipes are great! I love chicken wings but I dont always have the occassion to enjoy it. Hmmmm these look yummy
Mochachocolata Rita says
ohmigosh, i sooo love the idea of bad photo sunday!!!
i know it is sooo hard to take good food pics sometimes, but i can totally imagine the taste of those wings. tasty tasty tasty
Kristen says
We love Country Bobs too! I need to try this recipe. Mmmmmm!
Peabody says
I love asian style wings…good stuff.
Dragon says
Bad photo? I think they look wonderful.
Cookie baker Lynn says
Too bad they turned out too salty (I hate that). They certainly look delicious!
Sophie says
I got that email too! But I passed it up, thinking it was a scam :(…too bad I did, this looks awesome. I’m a huge sauce fan too! I don’t know what you mean about it being a bad photo…psh!
Kelly-Jane says
There is nothing wrong with your pictures! They look delicious!!
HoneyB says
well it might be a bad photo to you, but I’d happily eat those right now!
Cathy - wheresmydamnanswer says
Personally I do not really care how it looks as I am sure that the taste is off the charts. Hmmm Hmmm Good!!!