 Hey everyone, today we're making my Zippity-Doodle Red Hot Spicy Sweet Chicken Wings. Now the sauce for this is homemade, I'm using some dried peppers, but the important thing is that the peppers are about medium heat, alright? If you want to make it super spicy and hot, you can do that by adding more, or you can tone it down and add a little less, but I've got it right about the middle, and the thing about these peppers are that they have nice flavor. It's not just hot, it's also flavorful. Now we're getting our sweetness into this recipe by using date paste, and that adds some nice flavor in and of itself, and it cuts back on just regular sugar. And this sauce can also be used on other dishes, so make a double batch. You can use it on grilled hamburgers, chicken, steak, anything you like, even scrambled eggs would be great. If you like a little heat on your food, this is the sauce you gotta try. So I'm Rockin' Robin, and I'm gonna show you how to make it right after this. 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You can do that, save it, I put mine in the freezer. And then you're gonna cut it again between what's right at the base of the leg there. And then you just put them on a tray and just make sure that they're nice and dry before we, you know, spice them up. Next up is our chili peppers. Now these are called hapones and they're dried, so what we have to do with these before we can use them is we have to put them in a saucepan, cover them with water, put a lid on them, and boil them or simmer them for about 45 minutes. That'll soften them up and then we can use them and blend them in the blender. Next up we have dates. Make sure you get pitted dates so that you don't have to spend the time to take the pit out of each one because we're gonna be putting these in the blender as well and we want to have those pits out of there. We'll need some tomato paste, apple cider vinegar, some molasses, smoked paprika, regular paprika, pumpkin spice, granulated garlic, some butter, I'm using Kerrygold butter here. We'll need some baking powder, salt, and some avocado oil. You can use maybe olive oil too, if you don't have avocado oil, that'll be a nice substitute. Alright, so I'm gonna give you a little overview here of what we're doing. Chicken wings are gonna take about an hour in the oven to cook, to crisp up. But in the meantime we gotta cook our sauce. Now the dates need to be softened up so that they will blend in the blender. So we're gonna take, I'm gonna make a little extra because I like to use dates in other recipes. But I've got my dates in a pan here, I'm gonna add some water, we're gonna put it on the stove, and simmer it with a lid for about 30 minutes, it'll soften it up so we can then put it in the Vitamix and blend it up to make our sauce. Okay, so on to our chicken wings. Alright, what I've got here, like I said, I've got a nice baking sheet here lined with foil for easy cleanup, and a rack. So you want to use the rack so that the oven temperature, the air can circulate around the chicken, and crisp it all the way around. So that's important to use. Alright, so we're gonna take a ziplock bag, and I'm gonna add some baking powder to this, along with a little bit of salt, I'm gonna mix that up, and some paprika. So I'll add that to the bag, and then you want to kinda just shake that up a little bit before we add the chicken. Now the baking powder is going to help crisp up the chicken, alright? There's just something about the chemical reaction there, I'm gonna add a little more paprika, that makes it crisp up and it works really well. So we're just gonna do that, as soon as I get this mixed up, you want to mix it up first because that way you don't get clumps of it in certain spots and then you don't get it in other spots. Now my oven's preheated now to 425, and as soon as I shake this up, then we're gonna place each piece of chicken on the wire rack and in the oven it goes. And we'll probably turn them over about after 30 minutes, about half way through. Seal up your bag, and just give it a nice toss, and this will lightly coat all of your chicken. And you want to place the chicken skin side up to begin with. Alright, so it's been about 25 minutes, let's check our dates, you can see what they look like, they're in here simmering, they feel nice and soft, I think those are good enough. So I'm gonna pour them, I have a little strainer right here in another dish, and I'm gonna pour this mixture right through the strainer. So now that the dates have cooled a bit, we're gonna place them right into a Vitamix mixer, you want to use a high speed blender for this if you have one because it works way better. And then we'll add just enough of the juice that I have over here, put that over here so you can see it to, you know, liquefy it. It's a little bit, you know, if you don't have too much in there, which we don't have too much, it is a little hard to mix, but we just push it down as we go. Alright, so mix that up until you get a nice creamy paste. Alright, so this is how it turns out, let me show you this, see if I can pour it out here. So it's time to have a look at our chicken wings, here they are, after about 35 minutes they're ready to be turned over, we'll put these back in and check them in 10 minutes. It is now time to put everything in the blender and then we're gonna mix up our sauce and then we're gonna put it in a saucepan and heat it on the stove so that way it's nice and hot when we add it, add our chicken to it, okay? So here we go. Now we're gonna start with our peppers, remember this is where you can adjust the heat if you like. Now I cooked mine yesterday actually so they're ready to go and I like to go with about a half a cup and remember guys, you can get the written recipe down below in the description of this video, click where it says show more. A lot of people ask me that and that's where it is along with all kinds of other information. So I'm gonna go with about a half a cup, I might take one or two off of the peppers. Alright, so with the puree I'm gonna go with about three quarters of a cup, alright? That goes in to the blender, tomato paste, put that in there. This is the molasses going in, okay we're gonna put just a pinch of our pumpkin spice, we don't wanna overpower this, we just wanna hint of it so the flavors come through, it's about an eighth of a teaspoon. Our smoked paprika for that nice smoky flavor and of course we gotta have our garlic powder, I love garlic in my dishes and we're gonna put some salt in there, I'm just gonna pinch salt in there, it takes a fair amount and then the last thing for right now is our apple cider vinegar. Now I'll probably use some of the liquid that's in the chili peppers here because we need a little more liquid in there so this will blend up, but we wanna keep it on the thick side, I'm gonna put about a teaspoon or so of oil in this. Alright, now we're ready to blend, now we might have to thin this out a little bit so it's a little saucier, it's pretty thick so we can either add more of the chili pepper water, I'm gonna add a little more of that or we can add just plain water, whatever you wanna do, I'm gonna add a little more of that chili pepper water, thin it out. Alright so we're gonna add our sauce, like I said to a sauce pan, get it in there, this is a nice thickness and to the pan we're gonna add some butter, I'm using that Kerrygold butter, this is gonna make the sauce nice and silky smooth so let's get this on the stove and heat it up and our chicken wings are almost done, here's our sauce, that butter is melting into it and really making it nice, alright so our alarm went off, here's our chicken wings, they are looking mighty fine, they are ready to come out, they've been in there almost an hour, alright here's our wings, man they smell good and they look even better, right there and then we got our sauce which has been staying nice and hot on the stove, so what I'm gonna do here is look at these, aren't these gorgeous first of all, they look gorgeous and they don't even have the sauce on them yet, alright so I'm gonna take some of these, I'm gonna place them in this bowl, I'm gonna add the sauce, I'm gonna toss it a little bit and then I'm gonna have a nice taste, alright here we go, I'm gonna plate this up a little bit just throw a few on the plate so you can have a look at them, I'm just gonna take this one right here if it's not too hot, not too bad, man these are good, the heat kind of hits you at first and then it kind of gets subtle, it's got just the right amount, I love the flavors guys, this is flavorful and not just hot, you're gonna love it, oh man these are good, zippity doo dog guys these are very delicious, thank you so much for watching, if you enjoyed the video please share it, subscribe to my channel if you haven't, give me a thumbs up and of course leave me a comment, I always love hearing from you, so thanks again, we'll see you next time, enjoy these, try this sauce, you're gonna love it on all kinds of things and let me know what you think, alright see you next time