Sriracha Honey Glazed Buffalo Wings
These Sriracha Honey Buffalo Wings awesome. Buffalo wings are fairly hard to pass up at a party, unless you’re a vegetarian. And if that’s the case, there’s always a platter of crispy celery and carrots with the bonus buffalo wing sauce for our vegetarian friends. So everyone wins at our parties.
Sriracha Honey Buffalo Wings Recipe
A memorable buffalo or chicken wing recipe is all about having a great sauce. This sauce is one that will keep people licking their fingers between every touchdown hoorah. Adding a bit of heat and lively spice doesn’t hurt either. And if your guests leave the party with their palates till tingling, then you know you have a winning recipe.
Video: Recipe for Sriracha Honey Buffalo Wings
Love of Sriracha Wings
Our buffalo wing repertoire normally will have mild selection (for the the less spice inclined). It will also have an amped up, spice packed wing variation for the more daring and bold friends. Both are great, but the buffalo wings that are kicked up on the scoville level are so much more fun to eat. This sriracha honey glazed sauce is fantastic. We also have a siriracha chicken wing recipe that we developed and it’s also been a huge hit. The regular sriracha sauce doesn’t have butter. So yay for less calories, but it has a ton of umami flavor from hot sauce and fish sauce. Whichever sriracha sauce you use, they are deadly addicting combinations.
The Sriracha Cookbook’s Sriracha Honey Buffalo Wings
Anything with spice or sriracha based blast is alway on our radar and there’s a new book by Randy Clemons. He is quite possibly the number one sriracha fan. Randy has a new book out, appropriately called, The Sriracha Cookbook. This book is filled with beautifully photographed recipes full of this sweet/spicy/tangy hot sauce. If you love Sriracha hot sauce, or any hot sauce for that matter, you’ll have plenty of cooking fun with this book.
The Sriracha Cookbook: We were drawn to his sriracha honey buffalo wings that included plenty of sweet orange blossom honey to balance out the heat. And it contains plenty butter to make it extra rich and special. His sriracha honey wings are a great variation and alternative to our other sriracha wings because of the balance of sweet and spice. Adding the bright pop of fresh lime juice makes his recipe over the top wonderful.
The fun part about Randy’s honey-glazed sriracha buffalo wings is that you can substitute the recipes with any of your favorite hot sauces. The results will probably be equally fantastic.
Sriracha Honey Buffalo Wings
Ingredients
Chicken Wings
- 2 pounds (910 g) Chicken Wings , rinsed, and patted dry
- salt , to taste
- black pepper , to taste
For the Sauce
- 1/2 cup (115 g) Butter
- 1/3 cup (80 ml) Sriracha
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Honey
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) Kosher Salt
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) fresh Lime Juice , about 1 lime
- chopped fresh cilantro , optional for garnish
- toasted sesame seeds , optional for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F/220°C. Line a baking sheet pan with parchment paper.
- Add salt and pepper to the chicken wings.
- On prepared baking sheet pan, spread chicken wings out in one even layer (we don't coat our wings with oil before baking, but you can if you want. We find that the oil just makes the wings greasier. The wings release enough fat already). Season chicken wings with salt and pepper.
- Bake at 425°F/220°C for about 30 minutes, then flip the wings.
- Finish baking at 425°F/220°C for about another 10-20 minutes or until the wings are crispy and cooked. Some thick wings will take the full 20 minutes to cook all the way through.
- Make Sauce: While cooking the chicken wings, melt butter in a medium saucepan over low heat.
- Add sriracha, honey, salt, and lime juice.
- Whisk or stir to combine. Let sauce simmer for about 2 minutes until combined. Keep warm over low heat.
- When ready to serve, toss chicken wings with sriracha-honey sauce or dip the wings in the sauce. Top with optional cilantro and sesame seeds. Serve warm.
Notes
Crispy Wing Alternate Cooking Methods
Traditional Fry in Oil (uses about 1/2-3/4 cup of cornstarch to coat wings). Toss the wings in cornstarch to coat, shaking off excess cornstarch. Heat about 2-inches of oil in a large pot to 375°F. Fry in batches for about 8 minutes per batch, or until golden and cooked through. Make sure to turn the wings a couple times while cooking so they cook evenly. Season with salt & pepper. Air Fryer Chicken Wings (here’s our favorite Air Fryer) Season wings with salt & pepper. Air Fry at 400°F for 25-30 minutes, flipping 2-3 times while cooking. Toss with a little sauce, and then air fry for another 4 minutes. Different models and sizes of air fryers cook quicker than others. So adjust times accordingly.Video
Nutrition Information per Serving
What to do with the extra sauce?
Add the sauce on any grilled meats or even vegetables. The homemade buffalo sauce with the sriracha and honey has so much flavor that it’s even great on pasta. You can add it to eggs like fried eggs or scrambled eggs. Even drizzled over an omelette will make breakfast so much for flavorful. What ever do you, don’t get rid of it because it’s so good!
Some of our Favorite Sriracha Hot Sauces
More Easy Recipes
- Sriracha chicken wings
- Honey mustard chicken wings
- Crunchy fried chicken wings with sweet chili garlic sauce
- Air Fryer Chicken Wings
- Curry Chicken Wings
- Here’s all our Chicken Wings Recipes if you’re hungry for more
Anything with Siracha is good at our house! I might actually order the book!
As a native Buffalonian I love anything spicy that resembles a buffalo wing. Bring on the heat, I’m no quitter! This recipe looks delicious. I might have to give it a try, instead of my usual homemade buffalo sauce, next time.
If you love the heat, you might want to try our prime-time heat bringer, our Sriracha Chicken wings we did last year. Hot sauce for grown ups!
I love chicken wings…and I LOVE sriracha! This recipe looks so good!!!
Oh my. The hubster is a major fan of all things hot sauce, and we’re always up for Buffalo wings…he’s going to love this new variation! thanks!
your photos made me drooling!! I love sriracha! Thanks for the posting, and I definately will find the Sriracha Cookbook!
I may have been living under a rock, but I’ve never heard of orange blossom honey… Where would one find such a thing and can other types of honey be substituted?
We tend to see orange blossom honey a lot down here since there are all of the orange orchards. The bee keepers are setting up their hives in the orchards and it gives the honey a particular accent. We’ll see it even in the regular grocery stores. Feel free to use whichever honey you like or can find. It won’t make much difference in the end.
Do you think these would still taste as good if I baked them like you did in your sriracha chicken wings recipe? It seems like with the butter added in the sauce, baking them might be a good way to cut some calories. Although, if I’m having chicken wings for dinner I probably shouldn’t be worrying about calories.
Baking works great too. We’ll have a post coming up soon talking about that, but feel free to cook the wings however you like (bake, fry, grill, etc.)
You can absolutely bake these! Toss the wings with three tablespoons of oil. Place them on a foil-lined baking sheet and bake them in a 450°F oven for 25-30 minutes. Toss with the sauce, garnish and serve! Enjoy!
Darn it! You’ve done it again. I just finished my last bite of dinner and your stunning photos have me craving wings now. LOL The color of that pan of wings is what did me in. It’s going to be very very cold this weekend, so I’m thinking a batch of these will be the perfect antidote to shivering all weekend. 🙂
I think we’ll be making these for dinner tonight, they look awesome! I did however notice that your pounds to kilograms conversion for the chicken is incorrect. 4 pounds is less than 2 kilograms (2000g) certainly not seven!
Thanks Kristin for the kg correction. Don’t know that number came up. That’s what we get for doing the math at midnight after a long day. Recipe is corrected now.
T & D
Right, I just had buffalo wings at TGI Fridays and your pics and recipe puts their wings to total shame. Homemade is always better eh?! It was this very Sriracha sauce post that originally brought me to your blog! Great post and pics as usual!
As someone who attend college in Syracuse NY (about 800 years ago), not far from the birthplace of Buffalo wings, I know a thing or two about them, and am always on the lookout for a great new twist on these babies. As good as the honey-sriracha sounds, I’m thinking your recipe with the fish sauce-sriracha combo would be killer. I’ll be testing both soon! – S
I will definitely be checking out that sriracha cookbook. We go through bottles of the fiery sauce pretty regularly. I can’t think of a better way to enjoy the Superbowl than with a plate of these wings nearby.
Glorious! Sweet and Sriracha — can’t think of a better combination.
this is such a wonderful recipe. Love the sweet honey with the spicy!
Delphine
Wow, these were awesome. Lots of amazing flavors going on!
I know I wouldn’t be able to resist a plate of these!