Spicey Chicken Wings

This was a very daunting recipe for me the time. Living in Germany, it is very difficult to find the American products that I was accustomed to. Tabasco Sauce is available in Germany, but it is not my favorit condiment, and it is a bit pricey here.

*Usually, I list ingredients in exact amount, but it has been so long since Imade this recipe to the date I am posting it (slightly over 2 years), that I only remember the basics, but it is a very simple recipe that can be adjusted to you taste.

Ingredients:
Chicken Wings
Tabasco Sauce
Butter

Directions:
Preheat oven to 200°C (417°F). In a sauce pan mix Tabasco Sauce with Butter. If you add more Butter than Tabasco Sauce, the sauce will be mild. If you add more Tabasco Sauce than Butter, the sauce will be spicier. I suggest adding the butter a little at a time and tasting it until you have found the level of spice that you desire. Ok, so, melt these 2 ingredients in a sauce pan, remve form heat, and set aside.

On a cookie sheet (or multiple cookie sheets if you have more wings) place the chicken wings in rows, but make sure they are not layered on top of each other. Brush them each with the Sauce mixture that you just made. Place them in the oven and cook them brushing them with more sauce every 5 minutes until they are done. Once the wings are cooked, set the oven to "broil" or "grill" and grill the wings for 2-3 minutes. Watch them carefully at this stage because they could easily burn. The point of this step is to make them crispy because we have baked the wings and did not fry them, which would have given them a crispy crust.

Another variation on cooking the wings, which I have done time and time again, is to only broil or grill them. What I do is place them on a cookie sheet (upside down so that the bottom gets crispy first) and brush them with my suace mixture. Then, I place them in the oven on the "broil" or "Grill" setting for 10 minutes. Make sure that the cookie sheet is always in the middle level of the oven. Then, I turn the wings so that they are right-side-up, and I brush them with more sauce and place them back in the oven to continue "grilling" for another 10 minutes. At this point the Chicken wings should be cooked through. Brush on one last thick layer of sauce and, this time, place the cookie sheet on the top level of the oven and let the wings "grill" for 2-3 minutes, watching them carefully to make sure they don't burn.