Wings and thangs challenge cook.

Shuley · April 26, 2018

Ok so a lot of people on the guru are saying they don't like wings...... Well I Love wings. I don't do them near often enough. I really wanted to do something different because enough though I love the standard beer brined Frank's sauce hot wing, I just knew that wouldn't be very interesting and I like to stretch myself for challenge cooks. (however I did make some standard Frank's wings during this cook, but they were not the star) of course, perusing serious eats was a good start and low and behold I saw a recipe for jerk chicken wings. Now, I've only had "real" jerk chicken once and I adored it. I bought a bottle of the homemade sauce the restaurant used while on vacation but that bottle is long gone. So I was ecstatic to try making it. And then I got to thinking about my "Thang" I wanted to do cuban black beans and rice (which ended up turning into a coconut rice recipe from kenji that was delicious but a pain in my butt) but I didn't feel like doing either of those on the kamado.... Then it came to me. One of my favorite summer time sides! Mexican street corn salad. This stuff is bomb. Com and whenever I make it, it's gone in a flash. Which is good because it isn't so great leftover. With that lengthy interlude, here is my challenge cook. First things first, assemble the Jerk sauce and marinade

All ready to go in the blender

And all smooth

Then marinated the wings for about 8 hours.

Mean while I had been working on the Cuban black beans all day so I got to work on my Mexican corn salad ingredients.

All stuff prepped for the corn

I got the coconut rice going.... Which took forever but was not that difficult. Also not healthy. But really pretty tasty.

After the wings had been marinating for a while I got them on the KK at about 350. The wings on the left are jerk wings, the wings on the right are just dusted with honey high and because BBQ wings for the kids and hot wings in case the jerk wings were gross. Spoiler alert-they were not gross. In fact, when I mixed up the sauce and tasted it it was so good my husband and I were licking the lid of the blender because it was soooo tasty.

Then I got the cast iron hot on my Akorn for the corn salad and dumped it in and letting it pop and crackle

After a bit it was ready to get all mixed up in the salad.

Wings are just about done.

Applied sauce to the hot wings and BBQ wings and set the glaze.

And all the wings are done and I tossed the jerk wings with a little more sauce since it was so dang good.

My plate of food. And dang all these wings were GONE. The next time I make the jerk sauce I will quadruple the recipe so I can have multiple batches in the freezer. My husband said they were the best homemade beans he ever had and went back for 3 servings.... And he never goes back for beans. This corn salad is always a hit and was the first thing gone. It was a great challenge cook. As we were eating my husband said "I love challenge cook night."