Thursday: Grilled BBQ Chicken Wings

So excited! Sun! Rumour has it it will be short-lived, therefore am seizing the day, carpe chicken wing and all of that. I wrestled with making these, because fitting chicken wings into a healthy lifestyle can be a little tricky. Small crunchy amazingly greasy handfuls of joy with more calories than a decent-sized pizza. However, I am a big fan of using what I have and what I found in the freezer is these chicken wings and there we are. Since I am not intending to stop eating properly, I'm going to try and integrate these bad boys. With salad, lots and LOTS of salad.

These wings are sweet and a little spicy and a whole lot of amazing.

You will need:

3-4 lbs chicken wings, tips removed

2 c ketchup

1/4 c olive oil

1/4 c orange juice

1/4 c Chipotle pepper sauce

4 cloves garlic, pressed

1 tsp lime juice

1 tsp salt

Dump everything in a large plastic freezer bag, preferably something good quality. No-one wants this all over the inside of their fridge.

Squeeze out all the air and seal. Mush it around until all the wings are coated in sauce. Massage it a little through the bag. Go on, give it a grope.

Thrown in the fridge, let marinate for at least 6 hours. Reserve the marinade for basting while grilling.

I made 2.5 lbs, halved the recipe and ended up with chicken wings with a calorie count of 85 per. Say you had three, threw in a salad with some light goat cheese, that's not too bad, right? You probably wouldn`t want to do it ALL the time as that is not the best use of that many calories, but here and again, give it a whirl.

All crunchy from the grill

You can almost hear them...eat meeee!! Eat meeee!!