Name: Air Fryer Chicken Wings
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 7 h 20 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 pounds chicken wing drumettes and flats; 3 teaspoons baking powder; 2 teaspoons kosher salt; 2 tablespoons gochujang; 2 tablespoons soy sauce; 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar; 2 teaspoons sesame oil; 1 teaspoon sugar; 3 tablespoons butter, melted and kept warm; 1 cup mayonnaise; 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil; 3/4 teaspoon sugar; 1/8 teaspoon sriracha; Thinly sliced scallions, for garnish; Toasted sesame seeds, for garnish; Thin spears of cucumber; Thin slices of radish

Air Fryer Chicken Wings

Wings and your air fryer are a match made in heaven! Fast, crispy, no big mess—what’s not to love? Pair this air fryer chicken wing recipe with gochujang sauce and toasted sesame mayonnaise, and you’ve just entered chicken-wing utopia!

7 hr 20 min total 20 min prep 1 hr cook 6 666 cal

Instructions

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1 Pat the wings dry, if needed. In a large bowl, add the wings and toss them with the baking powder and salt until evenly coated. Spread the wings around the bowl so they are in a single layer and refrigerate them, uncovered, for at least 6 hours and up to 24 hours.
2 Heat the air fryer to 380°F.
3 Open the drawer and fit as many wings as you can in it without crowding them (for my 4.4-quart air fryer, this was 1-1/2 pounds of wings or half the batch). Close the drawer. Cook for 25 minutes, shaking the drawer every 5 minutes to shuffle the wings around.
4 As the wings cook, make the sauce. In a medium bowl, whisk together the gochujang, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, and sugar. Set aside.
5 In a small bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, sesame oil, sugar, and sriracha until smooth. Set aside.
6 Once the wings have cooked for 25 minutes, increase the temperature of the air fryer to 400°F. Cook the wings for another 5 minutes. This gets them nice and brown and especially crispy.
7 Mix the melted butter with the sauce (it might solidify a bit, but the heat of the wings will re-melt it). Add the wings to a large bowl, pour over half the sauce and toss the wings in the sauce.
8 Transfer to a serving platter and sprinkle with scallions and sesame seeds, if you like. Serve immediately, accompanied by the cucumbers, radishes, and sesame mayonnaise for dipping.
9 Reduce the temperature of your air fryer back to 380°F. Repeat steps 2 and 4. Toss them with the remaining sauce.