Baked BBQ Chicken Wings

Our baked chicken wings are tossed in baking powder before baking to help crisp up the skin. It's such a great trick for making wings in the oven! We toss these in our favorite sugar-free BBQ sauce for extra saucy wings.

Course Chicken

Cuisine American

Keyword baked bbq chicken wings

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 45

Total Time 55

Servings servings

Calories 890kcal

Author Karly Campbell

Ingredients

4 pounds chicken wing sections fresh or frozen and thawed
1 tablespoon aluminum-free baking powder
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon cracked pepper
1 cup sugar-free BBQ sauce

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place a wire rack over a sheet pan. Spray with nonstick spray.
Use paper towels to dry the chicken wings, removing as much liquid as possible for the most crispy wings.
Add the baking powder, salt, garlic powder, and pepper to a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
Add the chicken wings to a large bowl and sprinkle the seasoning over the top. Stir well to coat the chicken wings.
Arrange the chicken on the wire rack, skin side up, in a single layer and bake for 20 minutes. Flip and bake for another 20 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and skin is crispy.
Remove the wings from the oven and toss with the BBQ sauce. Return to the oven and bake for 5 minutes.

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Notes

We really love Sweet Baby Ray's No Sugar Added sauce. It tastes just like the original, uses a natural sweetener as the sugar replacement, and has just 1 net carb per 2 tablespoons.

The baking powder reacts with the protein in the chicken skin to make it extra crispy, but be sure to use aluminum-free baking powder or you'll find an off taste to the wings.

We brushed a bit of extra sauce on top of the wings after baking them in the sauce, just because we like things extra saucy.

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