Sous Vide Buffalo Chicken Wings

Juicy, perfectly cooked chicken wings with no fuss and no mess. Cooking the chicken wings sous vide allows you to easily and quickly fry these wings in a small amount of oil, making them the ultimate recipe for make-at-home buffalo wings.

Author

James  Briscione

James Briscione is a renowned expert in sous vide, flavor science and modern cuisine. Among his accomplishments in the kitchen James became the first ever two-time champion of Chopped on the Food Network. He studied sous vide with Italian masters in Venice and has been teaching the sous vide cooking to chefs and home cooks alike for over 8 years. He is the author of 4 cookbooks including his most recent, written with his wife Brooke Parkhurst, The Flavor Matrix (March, ‘18) will help cooks of all levels understand the science of flavor and ingredient pairing so that they can become better and more creative cooks. You can find James in the kitchen at The Institute of Culinary Education where he is the Director of Culinary Research. Or you may spot him on your screen; James is the host of Cooking with Dad and Man Crafted both on foodnetwork.com. James also appears regularly as a judge on cooking competition shows on Food Network.

Prep Time: 00:20

Recipe Time: 01:15

Temperature : 143.6F / 62C

Ingredients

• 2 lbs chicken wings
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon granulated garlic
• 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 cup hot sauce
• all purpose flour, as needed
• frying oil
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1/4 cup hot sauce/wing sauce

Directions

1. Set Anova precision cooker to 62˚C (143.5˚F).
2. In a large bowl, combine the chicken wings, salt, granulated garlic, smoked paprika, and sugar. Toss well to coat. Add the hot sauce and toss again. Transfer to heat proof and seal.
3. Cook the wings at 62˚C (143.5˚F) for 1 hour. Remove and cool slightly if frying immediately. To serve later, chill the cooked and store refrigerated. Wings may be fried from cold.

Finishing- Fry and sauce wings

1. Combine the wings and approximately 2 cups of all purpose flour in a large bowl. Toss wings to lightly coat with flour.
2. Pour approximately 1 inch of frying oil into a pan and heat to 350˚F.
3. In a separate pan, melt the butter and stir in hot sauce. For hotter wings, reduce the amount of butter.
4. Fry the wings until just browned and transfer to the sauce. Coat well with sauce and serve immediately.