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Skip takeout and make crispy and lemony Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings at home. This easy recipe starts with my oven fried wings and finishes with a quick three-ingredient wet lemon pepper sauce. Enjoy this with my blue cheese dressing and air fryer roasted broccoli to make a low-carb meal. You can also make these lemon pepper wings in the air fryer.
Why Make This
- Crispy and saucy: this recipe starts with my baked chicken wings, which gets the wings crisp enough to keep their crunch with sauce.
- Easy low-carb meal main: these are a no-fuss main dish. Simply crisp the wings in the oven or air fryer and toss them in the sauce before serving.
Ingredients Needed
Lemon Pepper Sauce
- Butter: since Lemon Pepper seasoning usually has salt, I’m using melted and unsalted butter
- Lemon Juice: You can use freshly-squeezed lemon juice or bottled lemon juice
- Lemon Pepper Seasoning: I’m using a California-style lemon pepper seasoning. It’s citrusy and peppery without as much salt as other styles. It also includes garlic and onion.
Oven Fried Wings
- Chicken Wings: I get these wings sectioned into drums and flats.
- Baking Powder: This helps to make the chicken wings crispy without requiring breading or flour.
- Black Pepper
- Smoked Paprika
- Garlic Powder
- Onion Powder
How to Make Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings
For the Oven Fried Wings:
- Mix the spices and baking powder in a small dish or ramekin. Sprinkle the seasoning mixture on the wings and toss the wings to coat
- Place wings on a parchment-paper lined baking sheet or a baking sheet with a cooling rack. Bake the wings until they’re crisp
For the Sauce:
- Add all ingredients to a microwave safe bowl. Mix with a fork.
- Toss the wings in the sauce and serve immediately
Top Tips & FAQs
- Use all of the baking powder spice mix: the key to getting crispy wings is to use all of the spice mixture. I toss my wings in it until the entire surface of the chicken is evenly coated.
- Save the salt: If you’ve made my oven fried wings or garlic parmesan wings, you might be wondering where is the salt. Since lemon pepper seasoning usually comes with salt, I do not add it to this recipe. This allows me to add as much lemon pepper seasoning to the wings as I wish.
- Add the sauce right before serving: to make sure the wings are crispy and saucy, add the lemon pepper sauce right before serving.
- Crisp the wings in the air fryer to save time: simply use my air fryer lemon pepper wings recipe.
There are some variations, but common ingredients include chicken wings, lemon juice, and lemon pepper seasoning.
These have a wet sauce. I prefer them to be wet because it helps the lemon pepper seasoning stick to the wings. But, you could also use lemon pepper as a finishing spice and simply sprinkle it on your crisped wings.
I prefer California-style lemon pepper seasoning since it has less salt than other styles that I’ve tried and more lemon flavor.
Recipes to Enjoy This With
- Best Homemade Keto Blue Cheese Dressing
- Air Fryer Roasted Broccoli
- Air Fryer Buffalo Wings
- Honey Sesame Ghost Pepper Wings
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Lemon Pepper Wings Recipe
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Ingredients
Oven Fried Wings
- 1 lb chicken wings
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
Lemon Pepper Sauce
- 2 tsp lemon pepper seasoning
- 2 tbsp butter, melted and unsalted
- 2 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
For the Oven Fried Wings:
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees
- Remove the chicken wing parts from the refrigerator and pat dry (removing as much moisture as possible helps to have a crispy wing skin)
- Mix the black pepper, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder and baking powder in a small dish or ramekin
- Sprinkle the seasoning mixture on the wings and toss the wings to coat
- Place wings on a parchment-paper lined baking sheet or a baking sheet with a cooling rack.
- Cook the wings in the oven for 20-25 minutes per side.
For the Sauce:
- Add all ingredients to a microwave safe bowl
- Mix with a fork
- Toss the wings in the sauce and serve immediately
Recipe Notes
- of the baking powder spice mix: the key to getting crispy wings is to use all of the spice mixture. I toss my wings in it until the entire surface of the chicken is evenly coated.
- Save the salt: If you’ve made my oven fried wings or garlic parmesan wings, you might be wondering where is the salt. Since lemon pepper seasoning usually comes with salt, I do not add it to this recipe. This allows me to add as much lemon pepper seasoning to the wings as I wish.
- Add the sauce right before serving: to make sure the wings are crispy and saucy, add the lemon pepper sauce right before serving.
- Crisp the wings in the air fryer to save time: simply use my air fryer lemon pepper wings recipe.
Nutrition Details
The nutrition facts come from entering the recipe ingredients into Spoonacular API, a database of food ingredients. They may vary for any recipe based on the exact product used. The keto sweeteners I use have 0g net carbs & are not included because sugar alcohols do not impact most people. This is provided as a courtesy, but you can do your own calculations if you wish!
