Oven Baked Chicken Wings Recipe

Oven baked chicken wings recipe! These delicious crispy baked wings are packed full of flavor, with a moist and tender inside, and crispy skin. Learn how to bake chicken wings in the oven in easy, quick, and simple steps.

Baking chicken wings in the oven is straightforward, and they are perfect for hosting, gamedays, parties, and picnics. Serve with sides like carrots, potatoes, celery, buffalo sauce, vegetables, rice, and more.

Oven Baked Chicken Wings Recipe

This oven baked chicken wings recipe is easy, simple, and the best.

Chicken wings are great for entertaining, and as appetizers. They are inexpensive, budget-friendly and easily available.

Cooking chicken wings in the oven requires minimal preparation and hands-off once the wings are in the oven. 

This healthy baked chicken wings recipe is high in protein, low carb, and keto.

It's the best baked chicken wings recipe because not only is it easy and quick to make, but the wings come out with crispy skin, tender inside, and it's super tasty.

It makes use of a few simple ingredients that you most likely have in your pantry.

This recipe is stress-free and requires minimal preparation. Learn how to bake chicken wings in the oven in simple steps. 

Related: spicy baked chicken wings, air fryer chicken wings. 

Do you need to flip chicken wings when baking? 

No, you don't have to but it is good to so that all the sides are browned and crispy.

Do you put sauce on wings before baking?

You can use some sauces to marinate the chicken and you can toss in sauces after baking. Some examples of sauces you can put on wings before and after baking are peri peri sauce, bang bang sauce, and buffalo sauce.

What temperature should chicken wings be cooked to? 

They should be cooked to an internal temperature of at least 165F/75C before it is safe to eat.

How do you make chicken wings crispy? 

You can make wings crispy by baking at a high-temperature of 200C/400F or by adding baking powder, or flour to season it.

Seasoning It

Aside from the herbs and spices listed in the ingredients for this recipe, you can use other dry rubs to season the wings. Some chicken seasoning you can use on wings are:

Chicken wings seasoning

Jerk seasoning

Cajun seasoning

Peri Peri seasoning

Ingredients

Chicken wings - Whole chicken wings or cut into flats and drummettes.

Paprika - I like to use smoked paprika but you can use paprika if you don't have smoked.

Garlic powder- You can substitute this with garlic granules.

Parsley

Cumin 

Black pepper - You can substitute with cayenne pepper or any other pepper of your choice.

Salt

How To Bake Chicken Wings in the Oven

Using a paper towel, pat the wings dry.

Put the chicken wings in a bowl. Add the paprika, garlic powder, parsley, cumin, black pepper, and salt to the wings. Mix till the seasoning and wings are well combined.

Cover the bowl with clingfilm and put it in the fridge to marinate the chicken wings for 1-12 hours. If you don't have the time to marinate it in the fridge, go ahead to the next step immediately after seasoning.

Arrange the wings in a single layer on a baking rack topped oven tray.

Put the tray in the oven and bake chicken wings at a temperature of 400F/200C for 40 minutes flipping the wings with a thong halfway through baking.

When it's cooked, nicely browned, and the skin crispy, bring the tray out of the oven.

Let the wings rest for 5-10 minutes before serving.

How Long To Bake Chicken Wings in the Oven

To bake crispy chicken wings in the oven, you would need to bake them for at least 30 minutes. Depending on the size, and type of oven used, here is a cooking time guide at possible temperatures to bake and timing:

How long to bake chicken wings at 400F is between 35- 40 minutes.

For how long to bake chicken wings at 350F is between 45-55 minutes. If you bake at this temperature and you would like the skin to be crispy, turn up the oven temperature to 200C/400F in the last 10-15 minutes for crispy wings. 

How long to bake chicken wings at 370F is between 40-45 minutes.

Chicken wings are cooked when if probed by a meat thermometer at the thickest part, the internal temperature reaches at least 164F or 75C. It is not safe to eat chicken that is not cooked to this temperature.

What To Serve With Crispy Baked Chicken Wings 

Here are some sides we like to serve with baked wings: 

Carrots

Celery

Dips like Bbq sauce, buffalo sauce, lemon pepper.

Potatoes 

Rice

Pasta

Plantain

How To Store

To store leftover oven baked chicken wings, or if you make it ahead to store, you can simply do this by preserving it in the refrigerator. If you will use it within 3-5 days, store it in the fridge but if you wish to store the wings for much longer, you should store it in the freezer.

To store it in the fridge - Pack the chicken wings in an airtight container or Ziploc bag, label with dates before keeping it in the fridge. It will last up to 5 days in the fridge.

To store in the freezer - Pack the wings in a Ziploc bag or an airtight freezer-safe container, make sure to label it with name and dates before storing it in the freezer where it can retain its quality and taste for up to 3 months.

You can reheat chicken wings in the microwave, oven, air fryer, or on the stovetop.

How to reheat it in the microwave: It can be reheated in the microwave from chilled or from frozen. Put the wings on a microwave-safe plate, put the plate in the microwave, cover it, and heat it on high settings for 1 minute and at 30-second intervals till it's warmed through.

You don't need to thaw before reheating but if you would like to defrost them first, leave them in the fridge overnight to thaw.

To reheat in the oven: Put the wings on a baking tray and bake at a temperature of 200C for 4 minutes or until it's warmed through.

Tips

• Adjust the pepper quantity to your taste.

• The seasoning used for this recipe is very good however, you can experiment with other seasonings of your choice.

• Season and marinate the chicken for 1-4 hours but if you don't have the time to marinate it, you can cook it immediately.

• You can line baking tray with parchment paper for easier cleaning of the tray.

• Don't put the chicken wings on each other, arrange them in a single layer so they are evenly cooked.

•  After baking the wings, you can toss them in sauce like buffalo sauce, bbq sauce, lemon butter, garlic butter.

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