Recipe#260

Title: Buffalo Wings 18

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24 wings 
 4 cups oil 
 4 T butter
 2-5 T (one 2.5 oz. bottle) Frank's Louisiana Hot Sauce
 1T white vinegar
 2 1/2 C blue cheese dressing
 salt
 pepper
 celery sticks
 Discard small tip of each wing, split at large joint and sprinkle
 with salt and pepper.  Heat oil in large casserole or fryer (until
 quite hot).  Add half of wings and cook, stirring occasionally.
 When brown and crisp (15-20 min.), remove and drain well.  Cook
 remaining wings.  Melt butter in saucepan and add hot sauce and
 vinegar.  Put wings on a warm platter and pour sauce over them (or
 put wings and sauce in a closed container and shake).  Serve with
 celery sticks, blue cheese dressing (for dipping), and beer.
 The unfortunate part of the referenced recipe is that it is loaded
 with fat.  For a low(er) fat variation that still tastes good, (got
 rave reviews when we served them at our last party) broil the wings
 instead of frying them, and then mix 1/2 cup hot sauce, 4 tbs honey,
 2 tbs vinegar, 2 tbs lemon juice, 1 heaping tsp dry mustard, like
 Coleman's.  Heat the sauce until it thickens, and then put the
 wings in, and then cook till it thickens even more, while stirring
 the wings around.  Still taste good with celery sticks and blue
 cheese dressing.  Might as well go all the way and use lower fat
 cheese dressing, though.
 Wings, being mostly chicken skin, have a large amount of fat in
 them, no matter what you do.  You can help a little by broiling
 them so that some of the fat melts away, and not adding any more.
 I would recommend grilling the wings.  That way, you lose the fat
 (a good thing) without losing the flavor (which would be a bad
 thing).
 BLUE CHEESE DRESSING
 1 c mayonnaise
 2 Tbsp. finely chopped onion 
 1 tsp finely minced garlic
 1/4 c finely chopped parsley
 1/2 c sour cream
 1 Tbsp lemon juice
 1 Tbsp white vinegar
 1/4 c crumbled blue cheese
 salt
 pepper
 cayenne 
 Combine and chill for an hour or longer.