Pepsi Chicken Wings

Love Pepsi? Love Wings? This is the perfect recipe for you! It's a delicious, sticky, complex sauce with the crispiest, most tender wings.

Done in 2 hours

Serves 4

Dish by Hugh Woodward

Ingredients

Pepsi sauce:

100gsoft brown sugar

1 tbsppaprika

1 tbsptomato puree

1 litrePepsi

Wings:

1.5 kg chicken wings

3 litressunflower oil

a handfulcrispy onions

to serveranch

A chicken wing is a beautiful thing. Pepsi is a beautiful thing. Combine the two and you are in food heaven. This fried wing recipe will become your go to for all wings - it's so simple you'll never bother with the oven again. Why would you?

Method

In a saucepan, combine all the ingredients for the sauce and boil until you have a thick reduction. Set aside.

Heat the oil to 120°C and fry the wings for 20 minutes. They should be completely cooked through at this stage. Drain and set in the fridge for around an hour.

Crank up the oil to 200°C. Fry the wings in batches for 10 minutes, until brown and crispy. Toss them through the reheated Pepsi sauce.

Serve scattered with crispy onions and ranch.

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Hugh's culinary life began aged 14 when he cooked spaghetti hoop burritos to impress girls. Since then his colourful career has taken him to performing in Skegness, making cheese in Peckham, running a wine bar on Columbia Road and reluctantly working in a (briefly) Michelin Starred restaurant. He likes fish, things cooked on charcoal, cheap dinners and London's rich cultural tapestry of food shops. When he's not cooking or eating he can be found mudlarking by the river Thames, buying bits in flea markets and hanging out with his cat Keith.