Air-Fried Spicy Chicken Wings

Both Mrs Chubby Chops and Little Miss Chubby Chops are partial to chicken wings. We recently bought one of those "air fryer" gadgets. This is our recipe for spicy chicken wings.

Air-Fried Spicy Chicken Wings

Ingredients

Some chicken wings

A couple of cloves of garlic

A piece of ginger about the same size as the garlic

A small pinch of salt

Two pinches of turmeric

One pinch of ground coriander seed (serbuk biji ketumbar)

Two pinches of ground cumin seed (serbuk jintan puteh)

One pinch of ground aniseed (serbuk jintan manis)

Two pinches of paprika

The merest hint of cayenne pepper (serbuk cili)

A good slug of olive oil

If you don't have your own Little Miss Chubby Chops (or the male equivalent) you may like to increase the amount of cayenne pepper.

Equipment

An air fryer

A decent mortal and pestle

If you don't have an air fryer, you could choose to grill the chicken wings or roast them in an oven.

It saves a lot of time if you have a mortal and pestle which both have a rough surface. The first mortal and pestle that I owned was one of those with a smooth surface that are better suited to a chemistry lab than a kitchen. I wasted hours because of it.

Method

Roughly chop the ginger and garlic.

Put the pinch of salt into the mortar. Then add the garlic and ginger. Start pounding, The salt at the bottom will act as an abrasive and make it easy.

Once the garlic and ginger have turned into a paste, add the spices and stir well. The paste will be very thick at this stage.

Loosen the paste by stirring in a good slug of olive oil.

The paste

Rub the paste into the chicken wings and allow to stand for at least half an hour.

Marinating chicken

Pre-heat the air fryer at 200ºC for five minutes. Then cook the chicken for ten minutes at 200ºC. Turn the chicken over and cook for another 10 minutes. Turn once again and cook for another 5 minutes by which time the chicken should be ready.

If the chicken has not quite browned to your taste, turn it over and cook for a further three minutes.

A light sprinkling of salt just before serving will bring out the full flavour.