Name: Honey Golden Chicken Wing Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: ½ cup hot sauce, like Sriracha; ⅓ cup honey; 4 tbsp unsalted butter; ⅓ cup dark muscovado sugar (or brown sugar); Salt, to taste; Pepper, to taste; 1 tsp garlic powder; 1 tsp turmeric powder; 1 tsp chili powder; 1 tbsp mustard; 1½ tbsp white wine vinegar; 1 tsp red pepper flakes; 1 lb chicken wings; 2 tbsp butter, melted; 2 tbsp flour; 2 tbsp cornstarch; 1 tbsp paprika; Salt, to taste; Pepper, to taste

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Who doesn’t love delicious, crispy chicken coated in a delectable golden-red sauce? Chicken wings are amazing, but with this sauce, they are just mind-blowing.

I decided to dedicate this article to the ultimate chicken wing sauce: honey golden sauce.

What Is Honey Golden Sauce?

From its name, you can already get an idea of what am I talking about here: delicious sauce made with honey and some other ingredients.

Besides honey, the sauce has butter, hot sauce, honey mustard, salt, pepper, and a bit of turmeric — that’s where the gold comes in!

Making this sauce is very easy and you just need a saucepot. Simply combine all the ingredients in a sauce pot and simmer for a few minutes and voila — your honey-golden sauce is ready to be used with chicken wings, or legs!

Other than chicken wings, I like to brush my bacon with this sauce before baking it in the oven. It elevates the flavors and it is just an essential sauce in my kitchen.

Why Is This Sauce So Special?

Like many other sauces, this one is made with ingredients you already have in your pantry. I just love the simplicity and the fact that you can make a batch in only a few minutes.

This simple sauce gives just about anything an instant flavor boost. You can whip a big batch of this sauce, stash it in the fridge, and use it to dramatically improve your weeknight meals!

Why Choose Homemade Sauce Instead Of Bottled One?

My friends ask me this question almost all the time, and my simple answer is that homemade sauces just taste better!

In addition, homemade sauces are customizable so you can easily enhance or reduce certain flavors. If you like your sauce spicier, then you can amp the heat, or if you like it less spicy, with the homemade version it is easily doable.

Another reason that homemade sauces are my favorite is that I know which ingredients are used and that it was made in a controlled environment.

All of you who are suffering from celiac disease or have food allergies know what I am talking about and how important this is.

Do I Need To Use Honey?

Honey has been a traditional spread and dipping sauce for centuries. However, we started using one in our marinades and sauces because of its properties and not just a flavor.

The honey works as an emulsifier, making your sauce thick. This is important if you want to have a sauce that sticks on the baked chicken wings.

Sauces without honey will just drip off the chicken or other types of meat, making a puddle under the dish.

Besides being an emulsifier, the honey will give some sweetness to the chicken, which will perfectly complement the dish, but also balance all the other flavors in the sauce.

Can I Use This Sauce Before Baking?

Sauces that contain honey are not suitable for baking. Honey is not that heat resistant, and baking over 10 minutes may cause the honey to burn. So, I do not recommend that you use this sauce for baking.

Instead, bake or fry the chicken wing and while they are still warm, toss them with the honey sauce.

Can This Sauce Be Used As A Dipping Sauce?

You can use this sauce as a dipping sauce. It does not have to be used only in one way.