Homemade Buffalo-Style Hot Wings Recipe with Blue Cheese Dip (video)
Hot wings! Classic buffalo-style hot wings are tossed in a combination of Frank's Red Hot and butter. For this recipe, we take some of our homemade fermented hot pepper relish and turn it into a Frank's Red Hot analogue, and also throw together our own really delicious blue cheese dip. We use the sous vide method of deep frying here. We find that it makes it super easy to get amazing results that way. If you're unfamiliar with the sous vide deep fry method: You sous vide whatever it is you want to deep fry until it is just at the perfect internal temperature. Once it's done (for the wings it was one hour at 165F) take them out and let them rest until they're about at room temp. After that, you just need to dredge them or bread them whoever you prefer and drop them in the hot fry oil for a short time until it's crispy and golden. No need to worry if it's cooked through, because it's already perfectly cooked!
A couple of changes we would make for the blue cheese dip going forward. We would reduce the amount of buttermilk and yogurt/sour cream, just so it has a little more body. We would also use a crumblier blue cheese. We had St. Agur on hand, which is delicious, but because it is so creamy, it's a little harder to break up for a sauce like this. A drier, crumblier blue cheese just makes that part of the process easier.
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