11 Grilled Chicken Wing Recipes for Your Best Backyard BBQ

deleciousfood | June 25, 2024 | BBQ | No Comments

This collection of grilled wings ranges from mild heat to out-of-this-world spice.

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Grilled chicken wings require some skill to be cooked to crispy and flavorful perfection. This collection of grilled chicken recipes features sauces and spices that range from a mild, sweet glaze to a fiery spice. We’ll also teach you how baking soda can help you get the crispiest skin and how to use direct and indirect heat from your grill for perfectly cooked wings, every time. Let’s go!

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An improved skewer setup brings these grilled wings closer to the heat, while a Turkish chili paste marinade adds flavor.

Get the recipe: Turkish Grilled Chicken Wings

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Sticky, sweet, smoky and tangy, these chicken wings get their flavor from an easy-to-prepare Hawaiian marinade. They’re grilled until tender and brushed with glaze, and they’re as perfect for a barbecue as they are for a game.

Get the Recipe: Huli Huli Hawaiian Grilled Chicken Wings

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Heavily seasoned skin gives these wings an earthy, spicy coating, while the sauce has a complexity that exceeds that of standard Buffalo. They’re grilled over indirect heat until blistered and crisp, then tossed in a simple sauce of butter, Louisiana-style hot sauce, and Worcestershire.

Get the recipe: Grilled Cajun Wings

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With great depth of flavor thanks to a marinade, these wings are easy to prepare, requiring only an overnight soak in soy sauce, fish sauce, Shaoxing wine and spices for maximum flavor.

Get the recipe: Spicy Grilled Chicken Wings with Soy Sauce and Fish Sauce

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These wings are rubbed, cooked over indirect heat with applewood chunks, and finished with a sweet and spicy barbecue honey glaze. There’s a lot going on here, including succulent smoky meat, a peppery sauce, and a sticky sauce that starts sweet and leaves a nice, lingering heat.

Get the Recipe: Sweet and Spicy Grilled Chicken Wings

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These sweet and savory wings are grilled over indirect heat to crisp the skin, then brushed with a hoisin, honey and soy sauce glaze that is set over rapid heat over direct heat.

Get the recipe: Grilled Hoisin-Glazed Chicken Wings

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Here, cooking the wings over high heat caramelizes the sauce, tempers the spiciness and brings out the sweetness of the honey.

Get the recipe: Honey Chipotle Grilled Wings

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The rubbed wings remain juicy and get a nicely browned skin after 30 minutes of cooking, after which barbecue sauce is applied and allowed to caramelize. These are coated in a roasted habanero sauce, because a touch of heat on a smoked wing only makes it even better, right?

Get the Recipe: Grilled Habanero Barbecue Wings

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To double the Sriracha flavor, these wings are first brushed with a rich Sriracha-based sauce during the final minutes of grilling. Once this coating is cooked, they are mixed with the rest of the sauce, creating two layers of hot garlic goodness, ensuring that every bite is full of flavor.

Get the recipe: Sriracha Grilled Hot Wings

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The essence of jerk is the amazing blend of herbs, spices, and chiles, and when it comes to wings, the marinade-to-chicken ratio leans well in favor of jerk. That means more heat and more spice, with just enough juicy chicken to temper the seasoning to the perfect amount.

Get the recipe: Jerk Chicken Wings

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These wings feature a spicy sauce with a healthy helping of cumin, ground Sichuan peppercorns, salt and baking powder, the latter of which helps achieve crispy, textured skin on grill-roasted wings. The mixture contains red pepper flakes, garlic, soy sauce, sherry, rice vinegar for a little heat, and a little sesame oil for that roasted sesame nuance.

Get the recipe: Spicy Cumin Wings

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