My favorite coca cola chicken wings !
coca cola, one of my favorite drinks, I do not remember whey coca cola becomes a sauce of cooking meat in China but the fact is that Coca Cola is quite popular in China nowadays. And since coca cola chicken wings become popular, we get more dished cooked with this sweet drinks such as coca cola ribs etc. The slight sweet taste bought by the drink can spare other condiments and seasoning, which makes this as one of the simplest recipe. This is no failure as long as some small details are concerned.
Now let’s start with the coca cola kitchen!!
In order to reduce the taste of the fresh meat, I suggest you to marinade the chicken wings with some ginger slice for around 10 minutes. So the first step is to cut a cross on one side of the wings so that the slight sweet taste can soaked into the inside and marinade with ginger slices.Then stir-fry the chicken wings until both sides changes color from meat white to slightly brown.
Pour in Cola until the both sides get stir-fried. The coca cola source should cover the chicken wings.
Simmer for about 10 minutes with slow fire, and then fire up to thicken coca cola sauce. If the dish is expected to have a better looking, then add some dark soy sauce but spare it since too much salty taste might influence the output taste. Another tip is that during the process, you may see some floats on the surface. Remove them using a scoop.
Then sprinkle some chopped spring onion and serve hot!
- 10 chicken wings (mid joint would be the best)
- 1 bottle of 250ml regular coca-cola
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon green onion, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon light soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon cooking wine
- 1 inch ginger sliced
- pinch of salt
- Prepare a bowl; add salt, cooking wine and ginger slices to marinade the chicken wings for about 10 minutes.Transfer out and drain.
- Heat up some vegetable oil in pan. Then put the chicken wings in to sautéing each side for 3 to 4 minutes until the skin becomes slightly brown.
- Pour Coca cola in the pan, slow the fire down to help the wings absorb the taste of cola. After 8 to 10 minutes, use high fire to thicken the sauce. Add 1 teaspoon of light soy sauce to dark the color. Stir occasionally.
- Move out from the pan and sprinkle some chopped green onions.
Will try it. Looks yummy.
Hi caithleen
Thanks for stopping by and look forward to your result.
I love to eat chicken wing and it looks very delicious with the thick sauce
Thanks Ann,
Chicken wings are the most common meat on my dinner table with my husband.
why use cola? what does it do that other ingredients dont?
Hi Lily,
Cola is just used in this recipe as a main seasonings because it has a balanced sweet taste, thus making this perfectly simple for beginners. But you can always braise chicken wings with other seasonings for example this one https://chinasichuanfood.com/braised-chicken-wings/.
Hey Elaine, This dish is truly magnificent and i am truly amazed at the unique and marvelous recipe. The pictures look great and i would love to try some. And after this who knows… maybe even Fanta and Sprite fried chicken.Thanks for this amazing chicken masterpiece.
Wow what a truly beautiful comment. I totally agree. This recipe definitely deserves high praise. The pictures look great and i cant wait to get my hands on some.
John is so sweet and such a good reader. Thanks for your kind words too.
Hey John,
Thanks so much for your lovely comment. You definitely should have to try this simple but excellent chicken recipe.
Simple, delicious, perfect!
Just like how I learned to make it one wild night in Macau. 😉
I am suppose to cook this on the 19th of Feb 2015 for the kids Chinese new year at school… don’t know how I can do it fast , we’re talking about 300 people to feed, about 2000 pcs of wings!!! and we only have 2 small pans!!! and this is just one of the recipes, there ‘ll be 2 0r 3 more to cook for that meal, that would be really fun for me , don’t you think!!! it looks delicious though!!!!
Wow Lita,
That’s a tough task. So many wings!!!! I think if you have large ovens, use roasting instead of pan-frying. And then move to larger pot for simmering and sauce-thickening process. 2 small pans really makes the work really challenging.
Hi Elaine,
This is an awesome recipe! I wish I knew about it when I was craving chicken!!
I’m Joy, a photographer for Spoon University, and I’m writing a story about incorporating coca cola in food. If it’s okay with you, I’d love to use this photo (https://chinasichuanfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/coca-cola-chicken-wings-4.jpg) in the article and of course give you proper photo credit.
If you could let me know as soon as possible, that would be great!
Thanks so much ahead of time.
Sure Joy,
Please feel free to use the photo as long as it is credited. I am so glad to know that you love this photo.
Thank you very much! And definately I’ll make sure to credit it! Its a beautiful photograph 🙂
You are very welcome and thanks for your kind words.
Hi Elaine,
This is such an awesome recipe! I wish I knew about it when I was craving chicken!
I’m Joy, a photographer for Spoon University, and I’m writing a story about ways to incorperate coca cola in your food . If it’s okay with you, I’d love to use this photo (https://chinasichuanfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/coca-cola-chicken-wings-4.jpg) in the article and of course give you proper photo credit. If you could let me know as sold as possible, that would be great!
Thanks so much ahead of time.
Oh my,this look yummy!!!! I love Coca-Cola and chicken wings.They are perfect together.
Thanks for lovely comment, Stephanie!