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Extra crispy chicken wings
About this recipe
This recipe comes from a regional cooking tradition that draws on its own pantry, technique, and culinary history. The full editorial context for this cuisine is something we're still developing; the scaling and conversion tools above work the same regardless of origin.
As a chicken dish, Extra crispy chicken wings is forgiving enough to roast whole, braise in pieces, or quick-cook for a weeknight dinner — chicken accepts most techniques without losing its character.
Use the scaler above to set the number of servings you actually want to cook — quantities resize with culinary fractions, units promote sensibly (three teaspoons become a tablespoon), and the result reads like the recipe was written for your table.
Recipe data is sourced from TheMealDB's open community database; ScaleRecipe handles the curation, the scaling math, the editorial commentary, and the conversion utilities woven into each page.
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Method
- Wash chicken and pat dry
- Place in a large bowl
- Season with garlic, salt, pepper and turmeric (you can expand your seasoning options if you'd like.
- Marinate for at least an hour
- Pour some tapioca flour on a plate
- Coat the wings with the cassava flour and place them on a rack or plater to set. Leave them for at least 30minutes to an hour.
- Heat the oil in the saucepan until it’s hot.
- Place wings in pan on medium heat, until light brown.
- Drain on a paper towel, and let the wings rest for at least 10 minutes, then return the wings to the hot pan on high heat and fry until golden brown.
- Enjoy!
Cooking notes
When scaling protein-led dishes, weigh the meat rather than counting pieces, and remember that the pan size limits how much you can sear at once.
For volume-to-weight conversions of any ingredient — flour, sugar, butter, salts — use the ingredient converter. To translate the recipe's oven temperature between °C, °F and gas mark, see the temperature converter.
When you scale this recipe up or down, remember that cooking time does not scale linearly. A doubled cake takes longer, but not twice as long; a doubled soup takes roughly twice as long. The cooking-time guide gives sensible starting estimates by dish geometry.
Scaling notes
Scaling Extra crispy chicken wings
Extra crispy chicken wings is written for around four servings as it stands on this page — scaling it up for a party or down for a meal-for-one is the small math problem most home cooks face every week. Here's how this particular dish responds to scaling, what changes linearly, and what doesn't.
Extra crispy chicken wings scales gracefully because chicken is forgiving — both the cooking method and the timing apply per piece rather than per total weight. The non-linear rule still applies to seasoning: at 2× volume use 1.5× the salt and spices, not full double, because flavour concentration intensifies as batch size grows.
Skip the math entirely — ScaleRecipe's scaler rewrites every ingredient line above with proper culinary fractions and smart unit promotion the moment you change the serving count. Open the scaler →
Beyond the recipe
Substitutions & make-ahead — Extra crispy chicken wings
If you're cooking Extra crispy chicken wings for a future meal (or doubling up for leftovers), here's how this dish handles storage, reheating, and the timing decisions most recipes don't spell out.
Make-ahead, storage, and reheating
Extra crispy chicken wings tolerates make-ahead better than most home cooks expect. Cooked chicken keeps 3-4 days refrigerated and freezes well for up to 3 months. Reheat in a low oven (around 300 °F / 150 °C) covered, with a splash of broth — microwave reheating dries out lean breast meat especially. If the sauce is dairy-based (cream, yogurt), warm gently over low heat and stir as it comes back together; high heat breaks the emulsion.
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OpenTemperature
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OpenCooking time
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OpenPan size
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OpenLength
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OpenIngredient density
A cup of flour weighs 120 g; a cup of honey weighs 340. The full table of ~40 staples, with sources.
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