Spicy Asian chicken wing sauce recipe can be as hot as you want, or mild. Give your air fryer or baked wings a kick of flavor with this. If you loved our other dipping sauce for chicken wings you are going to go crazy over this one as well.
This spicy chicken wing sauce is amazing! Using guajillo chiles, or your favorite type, and a bit of sweetness you can create the perfect spicy sauce at home. A spicy chicken wing sauce you’ll want to make again again with your favorite appetizer. (affiliate links present)
Why We Love Spicy Asian Chicken Wing Sauce
It just adds wow!! We wanted some heat on our baked crispy chicken wings and something to dip them in. We’re known to have make these fun finger foods for dinner, not just a starter or snack. With a bunch of different sauces you could make a different one each week and not repeat for weeks.
Just like with our Asian steak marinade, this will only take you about 15 minutes to make. Adjust as you go along to add more sweetness or heat to your liking. Then use immediately and/or make a large batch and bottle it for later.
Ingredients
- You can find a link to a bag of Guajillo chiles below
- You’ll need some water to bring them to life and soften up
- Use some orange juice for sweetness and tartness
- Apple cider vinegar for the zing
- Fresh lime juice is best
- Diced garlic in a jar or better yet, roasted air fryer garlic
- Onions diced are optional
- Honey for sweets
- Olive oil and seasonings like salt and pepper
Can you use dried peppers?
Yes, lots of fresh peppers you can find at the store are best. You can buy dried and then boil them with a bit of water so that they kinda’ come back to life, that works just fine. You can keep them on hand this way too and make it year round without having to go back to the store, that is always nice. Add garlic, vinegar and honey for sweetness and bam!
Equipment Needed
A blender is needed to really blend it up nicely and get it smooth. To further that, use a fine mesh strainer at the end to get any slightly larger chunks out of it too. Pour back into your pot, into a bowl to toss with your drummettes, or if are serving a lot of people you could pour it into a slow cooker with the top on, on the warm setting.
This is great served as a chicken nuggets dip too! That is right, if your kids love hot hot add this to the choices with their tenders.
How to Make Asian Wing Sauce
- Heat chilis with 1/2 cup of water in a pot on the stovetop.
- Let it begin to boil to get the peppers rehydrated and flavor the liquid they are in
- Blend with other ingredients together and continue to taste to see if you want to add more vinegar or heat into the mix
- Use a fine strainer to remove larger pieces
- Pour the sauce into the pan to allow it to heat further
- Heat until it thickens a bit, stirring while you add in the honey and any additional seasonings you wish to include
- Pour over your favorite wings recipe, toss to coat.
Questions
As far as serving goes I would dress what you’re going to eat then and there, but then keep the rest separate. That way your meat will save nicely and not get soggy when you to to reheat them later.
Yes!! If you do want to double or triple this so you can store it for later you totally could in airtight containers in the fridge. Bottled up and canned, this makes a great gifts during the holidays or have available as a Super Bowl party party favor to take home. You can jump to recipe below and get started on it.
Best Way to Cook Wings
- Our dry rub air fryer chicken wings really don’t need buffalo chicken wing dip of any kind, but up to you.
- If you wanted to try something different, you could use this sweet spicy sauce on air fryer turkey wings too.
- Air fryer boneless wings are great for little ones so they don’t have to eat around the bones. Make on a sheet pan or in your Ninja Foodi for extra crispiness.
These kinda’ a complete meal as far as I am concerned. Ok so maybe you need some carbs or something, so yes we love a batch of air fryer pretzel bites with mustard pretzel dip on the side too. 😉 Oh my my mouth is watering now.
Want to try a vegetarian version of sorts, toss this all over some air fryer cauliflower wings y’all. I mean we do eat meat but are obsessed with these for sure. They take less than 30 minutes and are almost as filling as their meat counterpart. Lower in saturated fat for sure, you should give them a whirl too.
Want to try another spicy chicken wings sauce? Give our hot wings in air fryer recipe a whirl. We made a quick 3 ingredient buffalo sauce to coat our frozen chicken wings in air fryer post too.
Asian Chicken Wing Sauce Recipe
Equipment
- 1 pan
- 1 blender
Ingredients
- 1/2 c orange juice
- 3 limes, juices
- 2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 6 guajillo chilis, seeds and veins removed
- 2 tbsp paprika
- 1.5 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp minced garlic
- 2 tbsp onion, diced
- 1/2 c water
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp honey
Instructions
- In a small saucepan add the guajillo chilis with 1/2 cup of water and let it begin to boil for 6 minutes. Pour the chilies with the water left in the sauce pan, in a blender with the garlic, onion, paprika, orange juice, lime juice, and vinegar.
- Blend until smooth. Use a strainer to make sure you remove any pieces of chili, so it is completely smooth. In a medium saucepan, add one tablespoon of olive oil.
- Let it heat up and pour the sauce into the pan and heat over low heat until it thickens a bit, about 10 minutes. Stir constantly. While it's heating up, add in the honey, and additional salt and pepper to taste. Mix until combined
- Remove from heat and pour over wings and toss to coat.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
