This tart Hawaiian-style chicken is a crowd favorite.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 55 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 35 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 4 cups canola oil for deep frying
- 3 pounds chicken wings, tips removed and wings cut in half at joint
- 1 tablespoon garlic salt
- 1 cup cornstarch
- 2 eggs, beaten
- ½ cup cider vinegar
- ¼ cup pineapple juice
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 1 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
- 2 green onions, thinly sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Heat oil in deep-fryer to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil, and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- Toss chicken wings with garlic salt, and set aside for 10 minutes. Place cornstarch in a large plastic bag; toss the wings, a few at a time until coated. Shake off excess cornstarch, then dip into beaten egg. Shake wings in cornstarch again, then fry until golden brown in deep fryer. Drain on a paper towel-lined plate.
- Stir together vinegar, pineapple juice, ketchup, honey, and soy sauce in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Once the sauce comes to a simmer, place the chicken wings in a bowl, pour all but 1/2 cup of the sauce overtop, and toss to coat. Reserve remaining sauce to for basting.
- Place chicken wings on prepared baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, then baste with remaining sauce, turn, and bake for an additional 20 minutes.
- To serve, place wings on serving platter, and sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onions.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 567 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 72 g |
| Cholesterol | 110 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 21 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 1249 mg |
| Sugars | 50 g |
| Fat | 23 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
They turned out really yummy! Everyone enjoyed them! I used half the amount of honey asked and it turned out to be the perfect amount of sweetness for us. The only drawback was…it was a lot of work! Delicious, but a lot of time and effort!
My review is for the sauce only. I used it on chicken strips that I made in the air fryer. We were looking for a sauce similar to Wingstop’s Hawaiian sauce. This was very similar. As the sauce was cooking, I had doubts. It smelled strongly of vinegar. After the wings were done in the air fryer, I dipped them in the sauce and broiled them for 2 minutes. They were perfect, and a big hit with my family.
I used to live in Hawaii and though I miss the weather, I miss the food even more! For a few new friends, we made this, yakisoba, pineapple banana cake, fresh pineapple slices and Hawaiian mac salad – it was all amazing, but the BEST was this chicken! Raved about by all, will make again asap- I made it as directed with a few tiny changes, doubled all sauce ingredients, EXCEPT honey (I used only 3/4 cup for the double sauce recipe which made it less sweet and less sticky), I also omitted the 2nd round (eggs, cornstarch, rd 2) of coating and did 2.5 lbs drumsticks and 2.5 lbs wings for a group of 7 people. I fried drumsticks first and started baking them while completing the wings – perfecto! I basted more than 2 x (greedy me) and skipped the sesame seeds (didn’t have) AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS.
Very good! Awesome flavor! Not for the crock pot, though. I tried using mine for a family reunion, and I don’t reccommend it.
Taste of the sauce was great, would have been 4 stars if I didn’t cut down the cook time. If you follow the cook time exactly wings would be burnt in oven. other than that will make again, very tasty
Ditch the wings part of the recipe, and just go for the sauce! Popped pre-cooked popcorn chicken into a gallon-size baggie with the sauce, shook really well, and served with sesame shaken on top. Everyone loved it.
I took a risk and tried this, feeding about 50 people…and they ALL loved it! Prep took a long time but I would do it again! Great recipe.
Good
These took a lot of time to prepare, and I thought at first it wasn’t going to taste very good. But in the end they turned out very yummie. I used reg. sized legs and wings and added a diced jalapenos to the sauce for some kick!
I’m giving this a 4 because of the difficulty with preparation and my opinion of taste. I thought they were okay in taste but everyone else at the party thought they were fantastic. One person took them home to her son who said “I want to shake the hand of the person who made these.” Won’t make again for myself but will recommend to others. Made receipe exactly as directed except I had to double the corn starch and eggs.
This was good, but not great. The wings smelled delicious, but not too much of the flavor of the sauce came through on the finished wings.
These were really yummy, but kinda messy. The sauce is really sweet and gooey! I skipped the green onions. Also used flour when I ran out of cornstarch, and it was fine. Made these as part of our “fun and tasty finger foods” that we have every year while decorating our Christmas tree. Thanks for sharing, I’m going to make these for my next get-together.
This was a hit, followed the recipe, served with brown rice (which is yummy with the sauce poured on top) and pineapple and steamed broccoli and carrots. Forgot to add that we didn’t fry just made the sauce as recipe indicates and baked. Very good
these really turned out good they taste like the Hawaiian wings you get from wing stop, they take an effort to make but they are worth it
A lot of work, but a very tasty result.
On the fussy side. These came out surprisingly crunchy (a plus), but killer sweet (a minus). Additionally, the honey sauce made for an awfully thick, sticky, dental filling-removing glaze once baked. I *might* try these again with significant changes: use drumsticks for a better meat-to-glaze ratio, don’t bother double-dredging in cornstarch (one coat will likely do), halve the honey to make a less sweet, less sticky glaze. I was hoping to have a change-up from the hot wings my husband likes, and we both really enjoyed how crunchy these came out, but it was a little sweet for us.