Oven Baked BBQ Wings

Tonight Rob and I made oven baked BBQ wings and they turned out beautifully (And, were incredibly simple)! To make them, we partially used a recipe we found online but subtracted a few things and added a few things of our own. We served them with oven roasted red bliss potatoes and salad.

Ingredients:

1.5-2 lbs chicken wings

1 Jar BBQ sauce (Bone Suckin' BBQ Sauce Original Flavor 1 pint)

1 Medium yellow onion, diced

1 Tb Butter, chopped into small pieces

3-5 cloves of fresh garlic, minced

Lawry's Seasoning Salt (Lawry's Seasoned Salt, 16 oz * Economy Size)

Garlic pepper (McCormick - Garlic Pepper Seasoning - 1.23-Oz. Grinder (Pack of 3))

Italian Seasoning (McCormick - Italian Herb Seasoning - Grinder - .77 Oz. (Pack of 3))

Pepper (William Bounds Key Mill "WB-1" Pepper Mill)

Process:

Preheat your oven to 420 degrees. Spray the bottom of a baking dish with cooking spray and spread pieces of butter around the dish (leaving the butter in chunks). Then, place chicken in the dish and cover with the onions and garlic. After, sprinkle your desired amount of seasonings onto the chicken. Finally, drizzle BBQ sauce over the wings in a criss-cross pattern. DO NOT use all your BBQ sauce now, use about half of your total desired amount. Then, cover the dish completely with aluminum foil; poke about 5 or 6 small knife holes in the aluminum foil. Place dish into the over for 45-50 minutes. After the amount of time, remove the dish from the oven and take off the aluminum foil. Mix up everything in the dish, making sure the chicken is coated. Once mixed, pour your remaining amount of BBQ sauce over the chicken. Place dish back in the oven, uncovered, for another 30 minutes. After time is up, remove the dish from the oven and let it cool for at least 5 minutes before eating-waiting this amount of time will allow the sauce to thicken. After 5 minutes- DIG IN! The wings will literally be fall of the bone delicious!

As you can see from the picture, I used a ton of BBQ sauce. I probably did not need to use the extreme amount that I did but oh well, they tasted amazing!

I hope you get a chance to try this dish- they were truly the easiest wings I have ever made. Very little prep time and nothing I had to keep my eye on while they were cooking. It definitely was a pop it in the oven, set a timer and go watch TV, kind of meal!

Oven Baked Breaded Chicken

The other night Rob requested I make my homemade breaded chicken with sauce, cheese and pasta. It is basically chicken parm, but not quite. The thing I like about making it... is that it is SO easy and you can make it look so fancy! Here is how you make the chicken:

Ingredients:


1 lb of boneless, skinless, chicken cutlets
1 Package of bread crumbs (I use italian style panko bread crumbs) (Ian's Original Panko Breadcrumb, 9-Ounces (Pack of 12) )
2-3 Eggs
1/8 cup (or so) of cold water
2 Tb melted butter
Pepper
Dried minced garlic (McCormick Minced Garlic 3-Ounce Unit (Pack of 6) )
Lawry's seasoning salt (Lawrys Seasoning Salt, 16 -Ounce Bottles (Pack of 6) )

Process:


First, preheat oven to 350.  Then, rinse the chicken and leave it to dry. Get out 2 medium sized bowls. In one bowl add eggs and water, slightly whisk until lots of the big egg chunks are well mixed. In the second bowl, add bread crumbs (not the whole package! Maybe half) and add some extra spices to them; dried garlic, pepper and lawry's seasoning salt, mix well. Now, go back to the chicken and pat it dry with a paper towel. Take the chicken piece by piece, and dip one piece into the egg wash then dip it in the bread crumb bowl and make sure the piece of chicken is completely covered in bread crumbs. Once each piece is covered place them in a single layer in a glass baking pan. Sprinkle a small amount of extra bread crumbs on each piece of chicken and pat them down, then drizzle a little bit of melted butter on each piece of chicken. NOTE: The chicken should not be covered in butter, just a small sprinkle on each piece. Once that is complete, place the chicken in the oven for about 30 minutes (give or take). Then, after 30 minutes remove it and et it sit for 5 minutes. Viola! Your delicious chicken in complete!!

Plating:


Now, if you want to make your chicken with sauce and pasta and cheese--- and you want it to look pretty... First, take a plate and put a small serving of pasta on it, put a little sauce of the pasta and a little cheese. Then, take one piece of chicken and place it on on top of the sauce and pasta, place a piece of provolone cheese on top of the chicken and cover the chicken with sauce. Then, top off the plate by sprinkling some freshly grated cheese on. It will look lovely and taste even better!!

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Hope everyone enjoys this! You can obviously pair the chicken with whatever sides or dishes you are in the mood for but I just happen to make it with pasta, sauce and cheese... so I thought I would share that with you! As always, any thoughts.. critiques, suggestions or other ideas... feel free to let me know!