
I prefer these free range chickens cos you can be assured you’re getting a 100% vegetarian fed bird with no antibiotics ever. I used RANGER® The Free Range Chicken by Draper Valley Farms, which is a northwest locally raised and processed chicken. Here’s a little about how I went about making my Chicken Wings version of Chicken 65: The dish also has Indo-Chinese flavors as it sometimes uses Soy Sauce and Asian chili-garlic hot sauces. The fried chicken is then tossed in a hot sauce of curry leaves, more ginger and garlic, peppers and red chili paste. Then cornstarch and rice flour or regular flour is added to the marinade and mixed, before it is deep fried. It is however essentially a batter marinated chicken (most commonly boneless small pieces) with garlic-ginger and red chili powder along with other spices. Whatever the case, it’s popular now and is featured on most Indian restaurant menus and there’s no two recipes of it alike. Other theories include that the chicken was cut up into 65 little pieces, or that there were 65 ingredients in the dish…both of these seem far-fetched to me. The other that seems quite plausible to me, is that it was featured on a restaurant menu as the 65th dish and was often ordered as “Chicken 65”. There are a number of theories of how it got it’s name, one of which, is that it gained popularity in 1965. So meet Chicken 65 Wings!Ĭhicken 65 is a widely popular crispy fried, red hot chicken dish originating in Chennai, India, that is commonly served up as an appetizer or street food.

There’s no boring buffalo wings in this house!Īs my foodie theme this past year and for 2020 has been to embrace my Indian culture & express it more deeply though the flavors of my food while keeping it more appealing to the western palate, I thought I’d put an Indian spin on the ever popular chicken wings for the Big Game. With Football season coming to an end it means one thing…menu planning for the Big Game! Game day has always been a big deal in my household, cos my husband absolutely loves the sport, and I love any excuse to exercise my creative side with game day snacks. When the popular Indian Chicken 65 appetizer gets an overhaul with chicken wings, it makes the perfect globally flavored & unique snack for the Big Game Day!!


This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Draper Valley Farms.
