Ed's Hot Wings

Ingredients

• 4 lbs bag of chicken wings (about 25 wings)
• 1 cup flour
• 2-3 eggs beaten - add about 1 Tablespoon water
• 1/4 cup Chile Powder
• 2 Tablespoons Garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons Mrs Dash Extra Spicy seasoning
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon jalapeno powder (optional)

     Wing Sauce

• 1 bottle of Texas Pete's or Franks Hot Wing Sauce
• 1/4 cup butter

• oil for frying

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 deg F.
2. (Optional) Remove chicken skin.
3. Thoroughly mix all powdered ingredients in a bowl.
4. Spray cookie sheet with non-stick oil.
5. Roll chicken wing in egg mixture and roll until coated in the flour mixture.
6. Place on cookie sheet.
7. Repeat until all wings are coated and on cookie sheet. Beat more eggs, if needed.
8. Allow coated wings to sit for 15-20 minutes before putting into oven.
9. In the meantime... Start heating the cooking oil on low.
10. Mix the butter and Wing Sauce in a pan and simmer until butter is melted.
11. Cook wings in oven 15 minutes, turn wings over and cook another 15 minutes.
12. Use a meat thermometer and measure thickest part of a couple of chicken wings and make sure temperature is at least 160 deg F.
13. About 5 minutes before taking the wings out of oven, put the cooking oil on high.
14. Remove wings from oven and when oil is hot, place wings in a single layer in the oil. Keep oil hot. Rotate the wings after about 1 minutes. Repeat that until wings are crispy. (May need to do multiple steps of frying in oil depending on your pot size.)
15. Place wings on paper towel to remove excess oil and put on to a large bowl or platter.
16. Finish frying the remainder of the wings, remove excess oil, put on platter.
17. Pour the Wing sauce over the wings and serve while hot.

Server with beer and lots of friends.