Spicy Chicken Wings served on a peach, avo, mint and basil salsa
Braaied and marinaded in a potjie for the best flavours
I’ve been working with Juicy Delicious to create several recipes with stone fruit. Like most of my fellow South Africans, I don’t need an excuse to cook outdoors on the fire. Whether on a braai or in a potjie, this is where the best meals are made.
For this spicy chicken wing recipe, I chose to braai the wings and marinade them in a potjie pot. This was a winning method - by doing so you get both the smokey flavours and tender fall-off-the bone hot wings.
By adding a sweet salsa, the spice is balanced nicely. I really enjoyed this combination and love the colourful look too. You eat with your eyes first, after all.
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
Ingredients to make spicy chicken wings
1 kg chicken wings
1 cup mango atchar (if you like your wings really hot get Hot Atchar)
1 cup mayonaise
50ml sriracha
Ingredients to make the salsa:
6 ripe peaches
2 ripe avocados
1 red onion
20g fresh Basil
20g fresh Mint
How to make the chicken wings
Marinade the chicken in the atchar for at least 6 hours, preferably overnight, in a sealed container.
Prepare a medium to hot fire and then braai your chicken. Set aside the atchar, you will still need this later.
Mix the atchar, mayonaise and sriracha sauce and place into your potjie pot. Once the chicken is nicely browned (grill lines / charring adds to the flavour) then add it to the potjie pot.
Keep the coals on low and slow and cook for 20-30 minutes or until tender and close to falling off the bone.
How to make the salsa
1. Dice the peaches and avocado into roughly 1cm cubes.
2. De-stalk the herbs and then fine chop.
3. Finely dice the onion.
4. Season with salt and black pepper and then mix gently.
Assemble your dish by placing a good 4-5 table spoons of salsa and the 4-5 wings on top.
Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
More chicken recipes
Below the newsletter block, you will find some more chicken and braai recipes.
If you have some leftover roast chicken, and you don’t know what to do with it, this chicken, cauliflower and aubergine noodle recipe is a winner. All you need are some staple ingredients that you will have in your kitchen. Chicken is delicious in a pasta as well. For a recnet Pick n Pay ASAP Live! event I created this creamy chicken, biltong and steak pasta.
If you want to try make a chicken dish in the air fryer, this Parmesan & Hellman’s Mayo Air Fryer Chicken recipe is my usual go-to.
Have you ever cooked a whole chicken on the braai? Have a look at my recipe for tips and tricks to get the skin crispy and full of smokey flavours, but with soft and tender meat inside.
About Shawn Godfrey
Photo credit: Niki M Photography
Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (8), Olivia (5) and Harvey (3).
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