Tag: Orange Soda Wings

Orange soda wings are a great example of how you should never think that something sounds weird and will taste even weirder. I thought that and I was wrong. I found these wings to be fantastic. The sauce is perfect. Think traditional Buffalo wing sauce, but with a bit of sweetness from honey, and a wonderful light hint of citrus. The soda cooks down and thickens, making sure that every drop sticks to the wings. Every bite is delicious. I was so pleasantly surprised!

Is the sauce better than my picture? You better believe it is. Sometimes I get in a hurry. I tasted the sauce and was so excited to get to digging in that I just went nutso with the parsley! The next time I skipped that nonsense and just had great wings!

A Surprisingly Good Sauce

I think the orange soda wings sauce would be great on something other than wings too. Grilled chicken breasts for sure. Grilled pork chops definitely. Smoked ribs too! You could toss chicken nuggets in it and come up with your own almost-like-orange-chicken chicken!

Mo’ Soda

Make sure you use a good, quality and NOT DIET orange soda. Diet soda is not going to reduce and thicken like you want. Orange soda with sugar is going to work the best.

Can you use other flavors? Like grape soda? You bet. The color might get a little ‘weird’ when you add the Buffalo wing sauce. But it’ll still be delicious. So heck, yeah, try it! (And let me know how it goes!)

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!

Also try my orange sesame wings.

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