A Better Buffalo Wing Sauce
Ingredients
Directions
Ingredients
1 c
Frank’s RedHot sauce
½ c
salted butter
1
small yellow onion, peeled and halved
1 tsp
distilled white vinegar
½ tsp
Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp
white granulated sugar
¼ tsp
cayenne pepper
Ground black pepper, to taste
A Better Buffalo Wing Sauce
While you technically don’t need more than some butter and Frank’s hot sauce to make an authentic Buffalo wing sauce, I like to give my sauce a simmer with a few added spices and aromatics to heighten some of the acidity and flavor that’s already in the hot sauce. Try this with your next batch of chicken wings (if you’re wary of deep-frying, J. Kenji López-Alt has a pretty good technique for getting them crispy in the oven), or bathe a few chicken cutlets in the sauce for a chicken finger sub fit for a Buffalo sports bar. This recipe makes enough sauce for about three pounds of chicken wings.
2 cups
- Combine ingredients in a small saucepan, and simmer over very low heat for 30 minutes. Taste for seasoning, and add more vinegar, cayenne, or black pepper if needed.
- Remove onion with a slotted spoon, and whisk to emulsify before using tongs and a large metal bowl to toss the wings with the sauce.
Anna Hezel
Anna Hezel is the former senior editor of TASTE.