Tag: Catalina dressing wings

Despite how simple the sauce on these fiery Catalina wings is to make, it absolutely blew us away! We loved it! A tad bit of sweetness, a tad bit of tanginess, and a good bit of heat. Of course, you can adjust the heat to your liking, which is why making your own chicken wing sauce is so much more fun than using a sauce out of a bottle. Add a bit more of this. Add a bit less of that. Experiment. Or don’t. These are some mighty tasty wings no matter what!

So Different And So Good

I cook a lot of wings using lots of different sauces, but there’s no doubt that fiery Catalina wings will be common in our house. Everything we need to make them is on-hand, so I can throw together the sauce in no time with no hassle. Perfect.

This sauce is also the perfect consistency for wings. Not too thick that it’s ‘gloppy’ and not too thin that it creates a sauce ‘lake’ on your plate.

No Fru-Fru-ness

If your grocery stores sells fancy Catalina salad dressing, skip it. No need to use the expensive stuff in the sauce for these wings. I’m not saying don’t use a good dressing. I’m saying that the store-brand version is perfect.

If your dressing (or hot sauce) is refrigerated, make sure you let it come to room temperature before mixing things and tossing wings with it. You do not want to put a cold sauce on hot wings. That’s a great way to make them less-great. I’m about great wings here. So let that stuff get warm first.

I store my leftover homemade sauces in squeeze bottles. If refrigerated, I set them out an hour before using so they come to room temperature. You don’t want to put cold sauce on hot wings!

Check out my always-growing list of over 100 homemade wing recipes, including sauces and seasonings!