Wings and your air fryer are a match made in heaven!

Alison Bickel

Got an air fryer?

Youll love the results.

Best Air Fryer Chicken Wings with Gochujang Sauce on rectangle board sprinkled with sesame seeds with radishes, scallions and dipping sauces in white dishes nearby.

Alison Bickel

Its faster and crisper than oven-roasting andwayless greasy and messy than deep frying.

Plus, we have an optional hack thatll get you the crunchiest, most addictive wings imaginable.

How To Make Chicken Wings in the Air Fryer

The air fryer is a hot wing machine!

Air Fryer Chicken Wings with Gochujang Sauce and Sesame Mayo dip on a white plate sprinkled with scallions and sesame seeds.

Alison Bickel

Maybe you know this, but air fryers dont really fry food.

Andbecause an air fryer is much smaller than a conventional oven, it gets very hotveryfast.

Plug it in, turn it on, and its ready to turbo-cook those wings.

Crispy Day Air Fryer Chicken Wings with Gochujang Sauce on rectangle board sprinkled with sesame seeds with radishes, scallions and sesame dipping sauces in white dishes nearby.

Alison Bickel

How To Break Down Chicken Wings

One quick word on the wings themselves.

However, Ivefound the quality of intact, fresh chicken wings to be much better.

Theyre meatier and their skin is more supple.

Crispy Air Fryer Chicken Wings with Gochujang Sauce on rectangle board sprinkled with sesame seeds with radishes and peas nearby.

Alison Bickel

Better yet, add those and any leftover wings to a luscious batch of chicken wing ramen!

Cram in too many wings and they steam.

Theyll still be edible, but one bite and youll learn why steamed wings are not a thing.

Chicken wings in dusted in baking soda in a white bowl sitting on top of a stripped cloth.

Alison Bickle

Youll need to plan ahead, but the tiny bit of extra effort is worth it.

Give it a shot!

What About That Gochujang Sauce?

Air Fryer Chicken Wing Gochujang Sauce

Alison Bickle

Gochujang is wonderfully balanced: tangy and salty and fiery and barely sweet.

I enjoy it in dressings for Korean-style salads a lot.

This sauce recipe is adapted from Molly Stevens recent cookbook,All About Dinner.

Home made Air Fryer Chicken Wings with Gochujang Sauce in a bowl.

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(Its excellent, by the waysuitable for home cooks of all levels!)

What To Serve With Air Fryer Wings?

Make Ahead Tips for Chicken Wings

This whole recipe lends itself to making components in advance.

you could Never Have Too Many Wings!

Air Fryer Chicken Wings

The baking powder trick yields super-crispy wings and is worth planning ahead.

Cook for 25 minutes, shaking the drawer every 5 minutes to shuffle the wings around.

As the wings cook, make the sauce.

In a small bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, sesame oil, sugar, and sriracha until smooth.

Once the wings have cooked for 25 minutes, increase the temperature of the air fryer to 400F.

Cook the wings for another 5 minutes.

This gets them nice and brown and especially crispy.

Transfer to a serving platter and sprinkle with scallions and sesame seeds, if you like.

Serve immediately, accompanied by the cucumbers, radishes, and sesame mayonnaise for dipping.

Reduce the temperature of your air fryer back to 380F.

Repeat steps 2 and 4.

Toss them with the remaining sauce.