Hot Wings

I'm now on a quest to make the perfect wing sauce. The one I made today (the second recipe below) was sweet, vinegary and awkward. I put a ton of stuff into the sauce without much guidance other than from questionable sounding internet recipes. Most internet recipes were useless: 'store-bought hot sauce+butter, put on chicken.' Almost nothing from scratch. But with so much random stuff in the sauce, it was nearly impossible to pick out the mismatched ingredients. Lesson: when making something new, start with a less exciting but solid base before experimenting with more.

Here will be my next attempt:

Peppers (20 habanero, 15 serrano, 10 red jalapeno)
2 pieces garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
A dash of paprika
1 tsp cayenne pepper powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
(Slice, sautee, blend with...)
1/3 cup water with 2 tbsp vinegar
Strain.

Add in...
1/4 stick butter
4 oz tomato sauce, maybe more

NOW, time to get creative and see what might make the recipe better. Maybe a little honey or bbq sauce. Hopefully I'll be more successful.

Anyway, here's the fail recipe of excess ingredients...

1. Hot sauce

20 habaneros
15 serrano
10 red jalapeno
1/2 onion
6 pieces garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp paprika
Juice of 1 lime
Dash of ginger powder
(then) 3/4 cup vinegar

Cut cuttable stuff and sautee everthing but the vinegar for about 15 minutes, then blend with the vinegar. Strain with cheesecloth and throw away the bits.

2. Wing sauce

In a large saucepan, mix...

Sauce from above
1/2 stick butter
1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
4 oz tomato paste

Reduce until desired consistency. Put on chicken, I guess? I didn't do that part.