Grilled Adobo Chicken Wings #recipe and #giveaway by Mia P. Manansala

The second book in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series, Homicide and Halo-Halo, comes out next week and I'm so happy to share one of the recipes with you all! The book takes place in the summer, so when I came up with the recipe, I was thinking of fun backyard BBQs and picnics. However, I made the chicken wings in the oven last week and they were just as delicious, so you're not limited to a grill if you live in a place where it just snowed four inches and the whole week is below freezing (like me).

Photo Credit: Book Club Cookbook

Tita Rosie's Grilled Adobo Chicken Wings

Tita Rosie makes this fun summertime spin on chicken adobo for parties and picnics, these are the general proportions that you can scale up or down, depending on how many people you’re serving.

Ingredients (per pound of chicken):

• 1 lb of chicken wings and/or drumsticks per person
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• ½ tsp black pepper
• ½ tsp salt

*For the sauce (per pound of chicken):

• 1 TBSP butter or olive oil
• 1 TBSP soy sauce
• 1 TBSP vinegar (white cane vinegar or apple cider vinegar)
• 1 tsp brown sugar
• 1-2 tsp minced garlic or garlic powder
• 1 bay leaf
• Red pepper flakes, to taste
• Black pepper, to taste

*this is a very thin glaze, so if you like your wings saucier, double the sauce ingredients

Directions:

1. Rinse chicken and pat dry. Mix the baking powder, garlic powder, salt, and black pepper, and coat the wings. Lay flat in baking trays or zippered plastic bags and store in the fridge for at least 6 hours or overnight.
2. The next day, prep your grill and cook the wings over indirect heat for 30-40 minutes until the skin is crisp, turning once or twice. You can also bake in a 400 degree Fahrenheit oven for 40-60 minutes, turning every 20 minutes to evenly crisp the skin.
3. While the chicken is cooking, add all the sauce ingredients to a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer uncovered until the liquid reduces to a thin glaze.
4. Toss the grilled chicken wings in the sauce until evenly coated and serve.

Ingredients for the wings: baking powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper, chicken wings

Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl and lightly coat the wings on both sides in the baking powder mixture.

Lay them on a baking tray or in a Ziploc bag and refrigerate for 6 hours to overnight. The chicken should be very lightly coated--it's not a breading.

Sauce ingredients: Garlic powder, white cane vinegar, olive oil, soy sauce, brown sugar, black pepper, bay leaves

Put all the ingredients in a small-medium sauce pan. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer until it reduces to a thin glaze.

If using an oven, bake in a 400 degree Fahrenheit oven for 40-60 minutes (depending on size of wings, oven strength, level of crispness, etc), turning over halfway through the cooking.

Place the wings in a bowl and drizzle the glaze over them, tossing to coat evenly. Enjoy!

To celebrate the release of my new book, I'm giving away a signed paperback copy of Homicide and Halo-Halo! To enter, let me know in the comments your go-to summer BBQ/picnic food(s) and include your email so I can contact the winner. U.S. only.

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Homicide and Halo-Halo (February 8, 2022)

Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie’s Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala.

 

Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can’t bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred a few months ago at her aunt’s Filipino restaurant, Tita Rosie’s Kitchen. No, things are heating up quite literally, since summer, her least favorite season, has just started.

 

To add to her feelings of sticky unease, Lila’s little town of Shady Palms has resurrected the Miss Teen Shady Palms Beauty Pageant, which she won many years ago—a fact that serves as a wedge between Lila and her cousin slash rival, Bernadette. But when the head judge of the pageant is murdered and Bernadette becomes the main suspect, the two must put aside their differences and solve the case—because it looks like one of them might be next.

 

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