Restaurant-Style Buffalo Wings and Sauce

Every good restaurant that serves wings will make their own buffalo sauce in-house, and it's easy to make your house too. This is a traditional recipe, but feel free to add something exotic like ground allspice or hotter ground chiles like habanero. All buffalo sauces are simply doctored up Louisiana-style hot sauce; a pre-bottled sauce made with cayenne or tabasco chiles and vinegar. Look for brands like Frank’s Original, La Preferida, Louisiana, Crystal, Texas Pete’s, Trappey’s, Slap Ya Mama, etc.. Extra cayenne pepper, melted butter, and honey are the typical ingredients that turn Louisiana-style sauce into Buffalo Sauce. Many restaurants will bake their wings ahead of service and then fry them crispy to order. You can achieve wing perfection without a fryer by baking and broiling your wings. (Works great for any other skin-on cut too!) Comment below to tell us how you like to make your own Buffalo Sauce.