Earlier this week I made my homemade (sorta) Arby’s roast beef sandwiches. Instead of making my own sauce, I picked up a bottle of Arby’s sauce at the grocery store. For days, every time I opened the fridge, that half-used bottle was staring at me. Calling me. Taunting me. “What should I do with it?” I thought. Well, only one answer came to me: “Make a wing sauce!”. So I did. And that’s how air fryer wings with Buffalo Arby’s sauce came to be. And they were a very good thing. That great Arby’s sauce tang, with a little Buffalo sauce inspiration and flavor added in. They might sound crazy because they were. Crazy good, that is!
These wings are a bit different. And a great conversation piece. And yes, wings can be a conversation piece. At least, I sure talk about them enough!
Can You Buffalo-ize Anything?
These air fryer wings with Buffalo Arby’s sauce raises the question “Can you turn any sauce into a Buffalo wing sauce-like sauce?”. Maybe. I’ve certainly tried plenty of times. And usually I end up with something I like. And truth be told, it’s a great way to use up those half-bottles of sauces you’ve had in the fridge for a few weeks longer than you should’ve. Heck, what do you have to lose? Try them. You might just like them. They sure don’t have to say ‘wing sauce’ on the label to end up being great on wings!
Yep, for extra heat, add more hot sauce. I was gonna say that earlier but forgot.
I always use unsalted butter in my sauces like this one. The bottled sauces and other ingredients I’m adding are usually high enough in sodium that I don’t need the extra salt in the butter. I can always add salt if I need to but taking it out… well that’s a bit challenging!
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Also try my HP Brown Sauce wings.
Air Fryer Wings with Buffalo Arby’s Sauce
Ingredients
For the wings
- 6 chicken wings flats and drumettes separated, tips saved to make stock
- ½ teaspoon baking powder not baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
For the Buffalo Arby's Sauce
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons Arby's Sauce
- 2 tablespoons Frank's RedHot sauce
Instructions
For the Buffalo Arby's Sauce (makes extra)
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan.
- Stir in the Arby's sauce and hot sauce.
- Keep warm until ready to use.
For the wings
- Lightly spray the basket of your air fryer with non-stick spray. Preheat per manufacturer’s recommendation.
- Combine the baking powder, salt and pepper. Sprinkle over the wings and toss to coat.
- Add the wings to the basket (be careful it’s hot!). If you have trouble fitting them without overlapping, stand the drumettes along the sides of the basket.
- Cook at 360 F for 12 minutes for large wings, 10 minutes for smaller ones.
- Carefully flip the wings (rotate the drumettes if they are standing) and cook another 12 minutes again (10 minutes for smaller wings) at 375 F.
- Flip the wings one last time. Increase the temperature to 390 F and cook another 6 minutes (4 minutes for smaller wings).
- Remove and toss with your favorite wing sauce. Click here for our guide on how to sauce your wings.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional values are approximate and will not include any store-bought wing sauce or seasoning nutritional values.
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