General Tso’s Chicken Wings
In my opinion, General Tso's chicken is one of the most delicious dishes you can get at a Chinese restaurant or for take-out.
You can make your own General Tso's chicken at home!
Check out my version of the dish:
Using chicken wings!
Being the frugally minded individual that I am, I don't really like to order take out for my family as often as I used to. I find that although take out is so tasty, it's just way too expensive when you consider how much cheaper it is to make at home!
I decided to make my own version of the dish using baked chicken wings rather than the standard fried and breaded pieces of chicken.
Making your own General Tso's chicken wings at home is simple and inexpensive. In fact, the chicken wings for this recipe were on sale for just $2/lb!
I'm not sure what the price for wings like is where you're from, but that is super cheap in my neck of the woods.
These wings make for an excellent appetizer and are seriously addictive.
The delicious and sticky sauce coating the wings is slightly sweet with a little hint of spice and fragrant fresh garlic and ginger.
Please check out my video below! You can find the recipe toward the bottom of this post. 🙂
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General Tso's Chicken Wings
- Yield: 1 1/2 to 2 lbs of wings 1x
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 –2 lbs chicken wings
Coating for the wings - 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp ginger
General Tso's Sauce for the wings - 3 tbsps brown sugar
- 1/2 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 3 large cloves of garlic, minced
- 1/2 tbsp fresh ginger, minced
- 2 tbsps Hoisin sauce
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/2 tsp of sriracha hot sauce (or another similar hot sauce)
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- Cooking spray
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 400°F.
- In a large bowl combine the ingredients for the wing coating. Combine with a whisk.
- Put the wings in the bowl and coat with the cornstarch mixture. It's ok if they're not completely covered with the coating – a little will do – just make sure each has some on it.
- Place a wire cooking rack on top of a cookie sheet. Use a little cooking spray to coat the wire rack.
- Place the chicken wings on top of the wire rack.
- Give the tops of the chicken wings a little spray with cooking oil – not much, just a little.
- Place the wings in the oven to cook for about 45 minutes. I like to turn on the broiler for the last couple minutes of cooking for the wings brown up a bit on top.
- While the wings are cooking in the oven, combine the ingredients for the sauce using a whisk. Make sure that you work the cornstarch in so there are no lumps.
- Heat the sauce in a medium sized sauce pot on high heat. Bring it to a boil while stirring constantly.
- Continue cooking the sauce until it's volume is about half or less of what it was before. Once it's at the proper thickness take it off the heat.
- Place the wings in a large bowl and coat with the sauce. Make sure that they're all well coated and place them on a serving dish.
- Enjoy!!
- Category: Appetizer
We always have chicken dinners in our house but never have wings like this. These look and sound delicious so we’ll have to try them 🙂
We love wings and have finally mastered baking them and getting a crisp skin. I’ve never tried General Tso’s on wings before, but I think I’m going to.
This is one of my favorite dishes to get. I don’t know if my family would eat it, but that would just mean more for me!
This is my husband’s most favorite Chinese dish. I can’t remember a time actually that he didn’t have this when we went to a Chinese restaurant. 🙂
OH this looks good, I would love try this this summer especially on the grill.
Oh yum! My husband is seriously going to love me when I make this for him this week! Thanks 😉
I love General Tso’s chicken but haven’t tried making one with wings. That’s a grea idea.
Oh my goodness, those chicken wings look so dang delicious! They have plenty of sauce on them, which I prefer when I eat wings.
Boy! Is my husband going to thank you! He loves General Tso’s chicken and he loves hot wings. This is the perfect game day treat!
I’m not usually a wing fan but these look great!! Great recipe!!
I love General Tso’s Chicken and I love Chicken wings! This is right up my alley.
What a great looking recipe! We love Chinese Food and this is one of my hubbies favorites. Will have to try your recipe.
These look delicious! My whole family would love it.
Whenever we eat at an Asian restaurant, I get something general tsos. I hadn’t had wings though – looks good!
I like that they have garlic. My husband LOVES wings. We don’t make them enough.
This looks delicious and fairly easy to make. I will havr to give this recipe a try.
This looks so delicious. I will have to try this recipe on the weekend. I am sure everyone will love it.
I adore making, and eating, chicken wings. Never tried it this way before, but I’m up for giving it a try!
I am not a chicken wing fan but I’d love to try this with boneless chicken. One of my daughter’s favorite Chinese dishes.
I’ve never tried this before but my husband gets it everyone we order Chinese! He would be over the moon if I actually made it for him!it looks great!
Now this is juicy and tasty – which is totally perfect!
These chicken wings look really great as they are comfort food. It’s so simple to prepare and cook at home.
Wow these wings look really good! I agree that eating out and doing take out does add up. This seems like a simple and tasty recipe to try.
I love general tao with a passion, I would love to eat these!
yum. I would love to try this recipe. I love DIY chinese at home!
I had to pin this recipe, it looks so yummy. Pair this with some steamed broccoli and carrots, I think i will be in heaven.
These look delicious and fairly easy to make. I appreciate you sharing this recipe with us.
So I know what I am serving at my next party! Holy cow, those sound beyond amazing.
That looks fantastic! i love anything prepared in the General Tso style, so I can’t wait to make those.