The Cook-Offs are - for me at least - also an excuse and incentive to step outside outside of one’s comfort zone. Those of you that read a few of my posts may have noticed that my comfort zone is pretty much Asian cuisine(s) and thus I wanted to avoid my first chicken wing entry to come from that continent (#2 of course is set) …
So tonight something completely different: Peruvian chicken wings. I set my heart on trying that during my prep for the Cook-Off and today I followed through. Reading through a few recipes online and somewhat liked this one. I did not follow it to the letter, but somewhat winged (see what I did there ?).
So: 1 kg chicken wings (organic, 7€/kg), doused with 10 g salt & 10 g baking powder, refrigerated for 4 h. Half of the wings were left unadulterated (for the family), half was mixed with cumin, smoked paprika, garlic, vinegar and a pinch of pepper. 15 min on a rack at 250 oC convection, turned, then 25 min at 200 oC.
In the meantime made the sauce from a fresh green chili, a teaspoon of yuzu kosho, two garlic cloves, juice of half a lemon, a heaped tablespoon of full fat yoghurt and 75 g mayo (Hellmans). Salt & white pepper. Pureed …
And I fried some green bananas in lieu of unavailable plantains …
Fresh from the oven …
Plated …
… and the familiy’s version. Originally. Then they tried the Peruvian version (spicy !) and declared it to be better and finished my portion 🙄
