Sweet and Sticky Grilled Chicken Wings

a gaggle of wings

This sauce is sweet and sticky and can also be a little spicy if you want.  It's a great sauce to use when grilling chicken.  I used chicken wings but I would also suggest using drumsticks. You want to pick this up with your figures to really get in to it.  You can serve this as the entree or an appetizer.  If serving as an appetizer split them apart, separating the three parts, so you are only dealing with one piece at a time.  


The process is that you want to prepare your chicken.  Then make the sauce.  


Ingredients: 
1 /12 cup dry red wine 
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce or liquid amino 
2 tbsp finely grated fresh ginger 
2 large garlic cloves, minced 
Salt 
Chicken of your choice 


Combine first 5 ingredients in a medium saucepan.  Bring it to a boil and then reduce the heat to a simmer. Do not cover. Reduce until it is the consistency of honey.  It will take about 45 minutes.  Allow to cool. 


Season the chicken with salt.  Grill to within a couple minutes of completion, probably 20 to 25 minutes.  Brush the chicken with the sauce, turn and brush the other side. Do this a couple times until the chicken is completely covered with the sauce and the heat has started to caramelize it on the surface. 


Option:  We like a little spice in ours.  And I do mean just a little.  We don't like it really hot, we just like a suggestion or an under laying note so we added a tablespoon of Sambul to the sauce.  One tablespoon is very mild so if you would like a little more heat add more. That way you get that sweet and hot thing going. 


Finger licking good! 


Serve this with some typical summer BBQ food like potato salad or coleslaw.