December 5, 2018

Garlic Chicken Wings with Cowboy Butter

Name: Garlic Chicken Wings with Cowboy Butter Wing Sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 12-16 chicken wings; 1 cup salted butter; 1/4 cup fresh parsley, finely minced; pinch red pepper flake; pinch coarsely ground black pepper; 1 clove garlic, finely minced; 1/2 lemon juiced and zested; 2 tablespoons Cowboy Butter, melted; 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

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An amazingly quick and easy recipe that's perfect for entertaining! These flavorful garlic chicken wings are ready in no time thanks to cooking them in an air fryer.

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Garlic Chicken Wings with Cowboy Butter made in the air fryer are the fastest and most delicious way to eat wings!

This Garlic Chicken Wings recipe is sponsored by Hamilton Beach. I have received the a Hamilton Beach Air Fryer for review, however, all opinions are my own. #ad #HamiltonBeach

One of our most popular recipes here on Juggling Act Mama is Cowboy Butter, so I’ve developed this garlic chicken wings recipe using Cowboy Butter as my inspiration. (You might also like to check out our Cowboy Steak Rub recipe, which is super delish too!

Using the air fryer for our garlic chicken wings means they not only cook quickly, but also they’re browned and crispy just as they should be. In fact, Mr. Juggling Act said that these air fryer chicken wings are better than any oven recipe we’ve ever made!

This recipe SO good that it made our top recipes of 2018 list, and the Cowboy Butter is listed first on of Top 5 Recipes of all time!

What is Cowboy Butter?

Cowboy Butter is an amazing compound butter with fresh parsley, garlic and a couple other ingredients that was developed by Ree Drummond, better known as The Pioneer Woman.

It’s absolutely amazing on chicken, steak, baked potatoes, garlic bread, and so much more. You can get my recipe for Cowboy Butter here. It’s super easy to make and fantastic to keep on hand for entertaining especially.

Make a double batch and freeze half of it. It will keep in the freezer for several months – not that it will last long because you’re going to want to put it on everything!!

Cowboy Butter Garlic Chicken Wings Ingredients:

salted butter
fresh parsley
fresh garlic
red pepper flakes
lemon
black pepper
chicken wings
Dijon mustard

For a list of some of my favorite items to use when cooking, please visit my Kitchen Resource page.

What is an Air Fryer?

The Hamilton Beach Air Fryer is an easy-to-use countertop appliance that produces crispy food quickly with less fat than a deep fryer. Air Fryers are basically just a compact convection oven. By circulating hot air around a basket that holds your food, it cooks in a fraction of the time.

I mean, chicken wings in 20 minutes?!? Awesome, right?

This air fryer would make a great gift for anyone that loves to cook and entertain! This holiday season, don’t forget to shop through Ebates so you earn cash back on all your purchases!

Garlic Chicken Wings Recipe Variations

Because we test all our recipes, we recommend that you make them once just as it is without substitutions or changes. Sometimes variations can go awry. Making garlic chicken wings recipe as we have tested it will yield the best results. If you really want to get creative, here are some ideas for variations that might work well. (Please note, we have not tested these variations).

For a spicy kick, add a little hot sauce to the Cowboy Butter mixture before cooking the wings, and/or to the wing sauce.
Add a pinch of paprika to the wing sauce for a hint of smokiness to your garlic chicken wings.
Use a tablespoon of minced fresh chives in the wing sauce for a subtle onion flavor that will compliment the garlic.

More Chicken Wing Recipes

If you’re a fan of chicken wings, you might also like to check out these tasty recipes:

Cowboy Butter Inspired Garlic Chicken Wings

These succulent garlic chicken wings are fantastic for entertaining and especially on game day!