Party Food - Baked Hot Chicken Wings and Pigs in a Blanket

Big event happened this week in Seattle - Seahawks went to the Super Bowl and won it. I decided to make hot chicken wings and pigs in a blanket for the show last Sunday. Both came out delicious. Here are the recipes.

Baked Hot Chicken Wings

 
Ingredients:

3 lbs of chicken wings cut into segments

1/2 cup of white flour

2 tablespoons of canola oil

Franks Wing Hot sauce

Canola oil spray

Salt and Pepper to taste.

 
To serve:

2-3 carrots, peeled and cut into 3-4 inch strips

2-3 celery sticks, cut into 3-4 inch strips

Blue cheese dressing

Franks Wing Hot sauce

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 400 F. In a large bowl using your hands rub chicken wings with flour and oil. Salt and pepper to taste. Spray the baking sheet with an oil spray and layer chicken wings on it. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes, turning chicken once.

2. Take wings out of the oven and using tongs dip each wing piece into Franks sauce. Put chicken wings on a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil and bake at 400 F for another 15 minutes, turning chicken once. Take chicken out.

3. Serve with celery and carrots. Use Franks sauce and Blue cheese dressing for dipping.

Pigs in a Blanket

Ingredients:

12 oz of uncured beef hot dogs (ended up using only 6 out of 8 in the package), cut in half

1 sheet of frozen puff pastry (Aussie Bakery brand)

1 egg

Flour

Canola oil spray

Preparation:

1. Defrost pastry in the refrigerator for about 3 hours. Preheat oven to 450 F. Dust the table with flour and then using a rolling pin roll the dough out to desired size. Cut the dough into rectangular strips ( almost the same length as half of a hot dog) and then wrap each hot dog with one. Layer hot dogs wrapped in a dough on a baking sheet that has been sprayed with an oil spray.

2. In a small bowl beat and egg and rub an egg wash on each pastry. Bake hot dogs in the oven for about 20 minutes. Take out and eat. Some prefer having them with ketchup. They are tasty either way.

As always I encourage moderation. So enjoy a small plate of these delicious nuggets!