Party favourite: Baked Chicken Wings

Got an invitation to a pot luck party but have no idea of what to bring? Try this extremely simple with no hassle of messy clean ups and still have the spare time to dress up, do your hair, put on make up and make an appearance in style!

I have tried a variety of chicken wings marinade and they are usually too expensive to buy ( to cook for a party of say forty, you most likely need to buy more than 1 bottle of marinade) or it just doesnt taste good. This recipe is definitely a keeper. I must stress that the wings MUST be left to marinade OVERNIGHT or 24 hours. You could marinade it for only 4-5 hours but trust me, it tastes WAY BETTER if you left it longer.

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 5-6 lbs chicken wings

• 1/2 tsp white pepper

• 3/4 cup brown sugar

• 3/4 cup soya sauce

• 1/4 cup ShaoXing chinese cooking wine

• 1/2 tsp Five Spice Powder

• 1 tsp garlic powder
  

• 1/2 large onion finely chopped, mash it a little with the back of your knife

Method:

1. Clean the chicken wings and pluck out any unwanted feathers
2. Mix all the above ingredients and the wings
3. Leave it to marinade overnight in the fridge
4. Line your baking tray with foil (for easy clean-ups) and arrange the wings close to one another and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 Fahrenheit for 1 hour.
5. Midway of baking, flip the wings and baste the wings with the left over marinade. Continue to bake.

Ps. The garlic powder can be substituted with finely chopped garlic. The reason for me using powder and wanting the garlic and onion to be extremely finely chopped is to minimise or avoid them getting burnt during the baking process.
Im sorry to say that I dont have pictures of this dish but will post one should I bake wings again!

* lbs=pounds
tsp=teaspoon