Easy Chicken Wing Brine
An easy brine for chicken wings whether you're baking wings, air frying, or doing smoked wings. Whether you want to keep it a simple chicken wing brine or add flavors or sweetener, we'll teach you all that you need to know!
Ingredients
- 8 cups water
- ½ cup coarse kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
- fresh herbs - parsley thyme, rosemary, sage
- 6 small garlic cloves
Instructions
- Put the water, kosher salt, black peppercorns, garlic cloves, and fresh herbs in a large pot. Turn the burner to medium heat, add the lid to the pot, and bring the mix to a simmer.
- Once the liquid is heated, cook it for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and remove the mix from the burner.
- Let the chicken wing brine cool completely.
- Once the brine is cooled, add the wings to the pot. You'll want the chicken wings to be completely covered with water.
- Cover the pot and add the chicken wing brine to the fridge for 1-2 hours.
- Remove the wings from the brine and rinse the chicken with cold water. Pat them dry with paper towels.
- The brined wings are now ready to use alongside your favorite wings recipe.
Notes
To make a quick and easy brine, just use water and coarse kosher salt or coarse sea salt. The purpose of brining is to tenderize the meat and make it more juicy and flavorful, simple salt water accomplishes that.
Morton's table salt is NOT the same as kosher salt or sea salt, table salt is much stronger and not recommended as a substitute for brining.
As an optional step, 1 cup of brown sugar or sweetener can be added to the brine.
Making lemon chicken? feel free to add lemon slices to your brine to infuse even more of a lemony flavor.
The chicken brine recipe works for whole chicken wings or trimmed wing sections. You can also use the exact same recipe for other types of chicken pieces.
Double or triple the brine as needed if you want to brine something like a whole chicken.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 8kcalCarbohydrates: 1gSodium: 7084mg
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