Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Chicken Wings made in a T-Fal Actifry

We I am a kitchen appliance lover.  I love what they do, what they can help you with and basically I just love to play with new toys.  I bought the T-Fal Actifry on a whim from The Shopping Channel.  It was expensive but it was already ordered and didn't bother to cancel it.  I did however use it as soon as I got it, of course the first thing I made was fries.  They were easy and crispy, I knew it was not getting returned.

I fond it quite large to store on the kitchen counter so it lives in a cupboard in my laundry room and therefore it gets forgotten about but I was thinking about it and knew I had to get inspired about it again.

My family loves fried chicken wings and I knew I had seen people cook them in the Actifry.  I had heard in as little as 20 minutes so I had to try.

I bought about 4 lbs. of chicken wings.


I added vegetable oil with their measuring spoon.  And started the timer for 20 minutes.


In just a few minutes you could see them changing colour, I knew after 7 minutes that they were going to be longer than 20 minutes.



After 35 minutes they were done and browned nicely.  I tool out about half of this point because my daughter likes them plain with just salt.



 To the remaining ones I added a sauce that consisted of soy sauce, honey, dry sherry, rice vinegar, ground ginger and chopped garlic.


I started it again for 2 minutes just to get the sauce on the wings and caramelized a little. They were smelling quite tasty at this point.


After two minutes they looked nice.


To make this a complete meal I made fried rice.


Overall I think I do like the Actifry.  It is easy to clean but I really must look into more recipes for it.  I think I would have gotten better results with the wings if I didn't overload it with wings, maybe 4 lb. was too much?

Please share any favourite recipes that you make in you Actifry:)