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Chicken wings are at the top of my guilty pleasure list foods list. I love them, but I don't eat them very frequently for a few reasons. While I am not a stickler for healthy and nutritious foods by any means, my beloved Buffalo chicken wings are deep-fried, coated in a sauce made of a ton of butter and hot sauce, and served with a mayonnaisey, sour creamy blue cheese dressing. They aren't good for you by any stretch of the imagination, and, no, the carrot and celery sticks don't help. My other deterrent is the messiness factor: I can't eat them without getting wing sauce all over my face. Delicious? Yes. Attractive? Well, I don't really think so.
Monica Bhide classes up this bar staple with her recipe for Indian Chicken Wings from Modern Spice. She takes inexpensive, crowd-pleasing wings and keeps them spicy by marinating them with all manner of Indian flavors. They are broiled and finished with chaat masala, a mixture of dried mango powder, cumin, black salt, coriander, dried ginger, salt, black pepper, asafoetida, and capsicum. I'm not recommending eating these wings with a fork and knife, but they are definitely more elegant than Buffalo wings.
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