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These Easy Garlic Parmesan Buffalo Chicken Wings are truly everyone’s favorite. Chicken wings baked with seasonings and garlic in a super hot oven until crispy all over. Toss the baked wings with parmesan and a spicy garlic buffalo sauce and serve with your favorite creamy ranch dressing. These are the easiest sheetpan baked chicken wings. Add a side of homemade french fries and you’ve got all you need! This fun restaurant-style dinner is great for fall game nights.
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Growing up, we didn’t go out or order in all that much. With so many kids running around, I think my parents had their hands full between my brothers and me. However, the one thing we did sometimes order out?
Buffalo Wild Wings or BW3’s as we used to call them. On Sunday nights in the fall, we’d occasionally get the treat of ordering up wings for Sunday dinner and game-day.
I can’t remember exactly the order, but I know there were a lot of buffalo wings and baskets of fries. And we always got extra buffalo sauce and blue cheese dressing on the side.
I haven’t had BW3s in so long, but as many of you know, we love anything covered in buffalo sauce. Even so, I’ve avoided making homemade chicken wings recipe. I just hate to fry and wings always seem like such a messy, not fun food to make at home.
But I decided that this football season, I wanted to make crispy oven baked chicken wings. But instead of frying, which is so fussy, messy, and not healthy, I’d keep things clean and bake them up until crispy.
They turned out so well that I’ve made them the last 3 Sundays in a row. We love these wings!
The details
Step 1: the wings
Start with the chicken. I used a mix of chicken wings and drumsticks and grabbed mine at Whole Foods.
Toss the wings in a bowl with a blend of spices: smoked paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Add flour, then toss again.
The flour allows the wings to get crispy in the oven. It’s a small amount, so a very light coating, but just perfect. Not a fully breaded chicken, but just enough so that the sauce can really stick nicely to the chicken.
Step 2: bake
Bake the chicken up in a single layer with a handful of garlic cloves. Bake for 20 minutes, then flip and bake for another 10 minutes until perfectly crispy.
Pull the garlic off the pan when you flip the wings, you don’t want the garlic to burn.
Step 3: the buffalo sauce
Now the sauce. For the hot sauce, Franks is my favorite. Add some salty butter and then a couple of teaspoons of seasoned salt and a pinch of black pepper. Melt this all together on the stove until just combined. Then, turn the heat off and mix in those roasted-up garlic cloves.
The roasted garlic makes this buffalo sauce so special and even more delicious.
Step 4: toss the wings
When the wings are crispy, immediately sprinkle them in fresh, grated parmesan cheese, then pour the sauce over the baked crispy wings and cook the wings in the sauce. What happens is that the coating soaks up all the sauce – wow so delish!
These crispy baked chicken wings are so yummy with a side of home-baked french fries and ranch or blue cheese dressing!
The perfect Sunday game night dinner or appetizer for family and friends to enjoy. And it’s so easy to make at home, not to mention, much healthier too!
Looking for other fall dinners with a little kick? Here are a few ideas:
Spicy Buffalo White Chicken Chili
Healthy Slow Cooker Turkey and White Bean Chili
Healthy Slow Cooker Chipotle Bean Chili
One Skillet Saucy Chicken Tortilla Enchilada Rice Bake
Healthy Chipotle Chicken Sweet Potato Skins
Slow Cooker Chipotle Chicken Tortilla Soup with Salty Lime Chips
Lastly, if you make these Easy Garlic Parmesan Buffalo Chicken Wings be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! Above all, I love to hear from you guys and always do my best to respond to each and every comment. And of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to tag me on Instagram! Looking through the photos of recipes you all have made is my favorite!
Baked Garlic Parmesan Buffalo Chicken Wings
Ingredients
- 2 pounds chicken wings or drumsticks
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- kosher salt and black pepper
- 1/4 cup flour or all-purpose gluten-free flour
- 6-8 cloves garlic
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup hot sauce
- 6 tablespoons salted butter
- 1-2 teaspoons seasoned salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- blue cheese or ranch dressing, for serving
- sliced green onions, for serving
Instructions
- 1. Preheat the oven to 450° F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or rub with oil.2. On the sheet pan, toss together the chicken wings, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Add the flour and toss again. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil, tossing to coat. Drop the garlic cloves around the chicken. Bake for 20 minutes then pull the garlic off the pan. Flip the the wings, then return to the oven and bake another 15-20 minutes, until the chicken is crispy and cooked through. My wings needed 30 minutes. 3. Meanwhile, make the sauce. Remove the garlic skin and chop/mash the roasted cloves into a paste. In a saucepan set over medium heat, melt together the hot sauce, butter, seasoned salt, and cayenne. Stir until melted and combined. Remove from the heat and mix in the garlic. 4. Remove the chicken from the oven and toss with parmesan. Then pour the buffalo sauce over the chicken and toss the chicken wings up in the sauce. Bake another 5 minutes, until the buffalo sauce is baked onto the chicken.5. Serve the chicken and buffalo sauce with green onions and blue cheese or ranch dressing. YUM!
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I made these wings for a party on Sunday and everyone raved about them. I followed the recipe as written and it came out amazing. The wings were devoured within minutes. This is my absolute favorite chicken wing recipe!
Hey Diego,
Happy Monday! I am thrilled to hear this recipe was a hit, thanks for making it and your feedback! xT
This recipe is a keeper! 10/10, even my 5 year old couldn’t get enough!
Hey Crystal,
Happy Friday!! So glad to hear that this recipe turned out nicely for you, thanks for making it and your feedback! Xx
Made this recipe last night for my wing loving family. It was a 10/10 for us. Followed the recipe exactly and we all loved it! Will definitely be putting this in our make again recipes.
Hey Stephanie,
Happy Sunday! I am thrilled to hear that you enjoyed this recipe, thank you so much for making it! xT
After tossing the wings in the flour, do you toss them in the olive oil? Step #2 says to do this.
Hi Lisa,
Yes, that is correct:) Please let me know if you have any other questions, I hope you love this recipe! xT
I love your version of these however I can’t eat anything spicy at all and I do mine a little different I cook at 400° for 20 minutes and I don’t use any oil also instead of flour I use baking powder or cornstarch also works and any sauce will stick to them either way love the idea of the garlic cloves as well thank you so much for sharing
Thanks so much for sharing Jolene!! Have a great Sunday! xT
very good wings, not too hot and not too crispy, just right
Thanks so much Hilary!! Love to hear this recipe turned out well for you! Have a great Friday! Xx
Super easy and yummy! Mine didn’t get as crispy as I wanted but hubby loved them!
Hey Sheryl,
Awesome!! I am so glad to hear that this recipe turned out well for you, thanks for making it! Have a great week:) xT
Turned out delicious! My husband said they were the best wings he’d ever had!
Hey Elena,
Happy Sunday! I am thrilled to hear these wings turned out well for you, thanks a lot for trying them out! Xx
There are so many hot sauces around. I am wondering if sriracha is too hot or if that would work? We aren’t very spicy eaters so I wouldn’t want to overdo that part by using a wrong sauce.
Hi Kristina,
Sriracha is pretty spicy, I like to use Frank’s Red Hot, I feel like it has more of a mild heat. I hope this helps! xx
Thse look & soundyummy. My question ishow much oil. The list shows 4 tbsp. Evoo then directions say
to toss w/ 2 tbsp.so is ot 2 or 4?
Ty 4 recipe & response
Hi Betty,
Thanks so much!! You are going to use 2 tablespoons of evoo in step 2:) Please let me know if you have any other questions, I hope you love this recipe! xT
These are the best wings I every made. I didn’t add the flour because I cooked with air fryer and it makes them crispy. I will make these again and again.
Hey there! So glad you enjoyed this recipe! Thank you so much for giving it a try! xT
What an absolute winner! Garlic, parmesan AND Buffalo?!
Such a great game day dish.
I did NOT understand the process or reason of working on the sheet pan to dust the wings, so I didnt. Bowl much easier.
Great recipe though!
Thank you SO much Adam! xT
I only cook a couple times a year, and when I do, I always use one of your recipes because they’re amazing. I made this one tonight for our New Year’s Eve party and everyone LOVED them. So much fun to make, super easy, and absolutely delicious. Thank you!!!
Thank you so much Bethany! So glad you loved these wings! xT
So yummy! For sure a family favorite now 🙂
Hi! Thank you so so much for trying out the recipe! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! xT
Can you air fry these bad boys?!
Hey Theresa,
Totally, that would work well here! Please let me know if you have any other questions, I hope you love this recipe! xT
We unanimously as a family decided that these are 100%. We watched my son play university football and enjoyed these wings. Seriously so good!
Thanks for a keeper recipe
Hey Leslie,
Happy Sunday!! Thanks a bunch for giving this recipe a try, I am so glad to hear that it turned out well for you:)
My family loved these!
Hi Gretchen,
Awesome!! Love to hear that this recipe was a winner, I appreciate you making it and your feedback! xx