So there’s this trend that’s been happening in the past few years, where ethnic foods that a lot of people called gross and made fun of minorities for eating are being insta-popularized! You can see this at the hosh posh American restaurants menus displaying common Asian stuff with a not so common Asian price. Yeah, I’m talking about you my fish sauce fried wings priced at 3-4 dollar a wing!
Anyways, good on you folks for discovering how amazing other cuisines are. Here’s a recipe so you don’t get jipped the next time you see some ‘Vietnamese Inspired Wings’ on a menu though.
Since there are so many ways to fry a wing, we’ll go over different ways :)..Actually I’ll list them out with names that describe them for what they are instead of making it sound frufru bougie.
Naked & dried wings quickly dipped in fish sauce and deep fried in oil.
Naked wings deep fried and coated with a boiled down sweet fish sauce
Naked wings fried until about 80% done and then cooked with fish sauce to finish off in a controlled setting with medium heat when the fish sauce is ready to be placed in to prevent splattering and bodily harm, phew that was a long name
Lightly floured pre-marinated in sweet fish sauce wings deep fried and tossed with a boiled down sweet fish sauce
All of the above + tossed with ‘fried garlic and shallots’
haha, yeah lovely names huh! Anyways, this past weekend we embarked on completing the last one listed above, the lightly floured pre-marinated in sweet fish sauce wings deep fried and tossed with a boiled down sweet fish sauce tossed with fried garlic and shallots. Yeah, that one…
Recipe for ..the name of the wings I don’t want to repeat again:
- Make some sweet fish sauce. Minced garlic, lime, minced Thai peppers, sugar dissolved in some hot water, fish sauce.
- Use this fish sauce and marinate some of your washed and dried wings. I like to just use the liquid portion (not garlic and pepper). It should be enough to just coat the wings, not have the wings sit in the liquid.
- After however much time you feel like marinating (I was too excited because chicken wingsss and didn’t give much time)- create your flour mixture of flour, salt, and pepper
- Get a nice even coat of flour on each of your wing
- In some hot oil, fry these babies. Don’t move them around too much, just let the oil do its job.
- In a sauce pan, pour in your remaining fish sauce and let this simmer down. When its at a more syrupy consistency, taste it to make sure it’s at the right saltiness level to mix your wings with. Remove from heat
- When you’re done frying your wings, throw in some more minced garlic + shallots and when it starts to brown, remove quickly.
- Toss your wings with your sauce and 3/4 of your fried garlic and shallots.
- Plate wings and sprinkle remaining fried goodness for that instashot!
- Let your sister, husband, MIL tell you how much they love you and then eat that last wing everyone’s staring at because you deserve it homie 🙂
