Elephant & Castle chicken wings? Read first post!

olaola

John_Rambo wrote: »

I think E&C hasn't moved with the times, no deals, no early bird, a whopping €4 for a glass of orange juice... That's celtic tiger stuff, I won't be dropping in again. And, the chicken wings are not as epic as they used to be.

They don't have to - they're ALWAYS full.

coffee to go

I've already stuck this on the Bargain Alerts Frank's thread, but I'll drop it here too...

This Irish blogger's recently put up a post for a buffalo chicken pizza, with Franks as the key ingredient:

http://glutenfreephotos.blogspot.com/2011/01/slice-of-good-life.html



Looks like a serious nom attack and a nice alternative to the aul wings.

catho_monster

That pic looks awesome!!

Kerikosan

What id do for a huge bowl of chicken wings now

gerryk

Got some Frank's in the SV on the quays last week. This weekend, had a major wing-fest. Saturday night, had the brothers round for a spot of poker, and garnished the event with a load of wings (and other stuff, but the wings were centre stage). They were f'in gorgeous.
Bought too many wings, so when the missus got back from gallivanting with her friends, made more wings last night. Slightly better sauce texture this time... I tossed the wings in the sauce and left them in the pot on a low heat for about 5 minutes to thicken the sauce... it worked nicely.
However, there is a dark cloud to this silver lining... when the wings were gone, I actually had a slurp of the remaining sauce! God help me! I didn't realise the dangers, and now I think it's too late!
Wings for breakfast anyone?

vibe666

gerryk wrote: »

Wings for breakfast anyone?

crunchy nut wing flakes? :pac:

it actually goes great as a table sauce for use with any kind of eggs, so fried, scramble or omelette means that the Frank's comes out to play in my house.

spiderjazz

Just discovered this thread after wondering how we can make wings at home, can't wait to try out the recipes!

Mr.Boots

Not much on this blog as i just havnt had time to do much with it....but there is a wings recipe on it you can try...

http://thegoodfoodblogger.blogspot.com/

spiderjazz

My god Franks hot sauce is incredible, made wings this evening with it, nom nom nom

vibe666

tried something a little different with it this evening.

marinate some chicken in franks for however long you have spare (mine was only about 2 minutes, was starving!:pac:) then melt butter in griddle pan and throw in the chicken and cook it on a very high heat to get it good & crispy.

(as usual) i used skin on thighs, de-boned as its the best bit of the bird imho and just let the chicken cook nicely on both sides until it was really crispy.

then just threw a bit of mixed salad and mayo into some garlic wraps we picked up in aldi, sliced up the chicken and snarfed it all down like we hadn't eaten in a week.

the weird thing is, it was a totally different flavour to buffalo wings due to it all being cooked out and crisped up. all the vinegar flavour was totally gone and it was just a nice sweet smokey, buttery paprika flavour with a bit of a kick.

it was actually a good bit like a really good portuguese piri-piri chicken, highly recommended.

WilcoOut

has anyone got the exact recipe that TriBeCa use?!

also, what a fantastic thread! has to be up there with boards.ie all time greats, pure inspiration

vibe666

WilcoOut wrote: »

has anyone got the exact recipe that TriBeCa use?!

also, what a fantastic thread! has to be up there with boards.ie all time greats, pure inspiration

yep, all the big restaurants use the same method, you just need to read through the thread.

afaik, the good stuff starts after page 5 if you want to skip it.

Swampy

@vibe666

funnily enough s mate of mine moved to ely a few years ago from Dublin. Lovely little town and you are right about the cathedral. Great restaurant down on the canal as well.

vibe666

Swampy wrote: »

@vibe666

funnily enough s mate of mine moved to ely a few years ago from Dublin. Lovely little town and you are right about the cathedral. Great restaurant down on the canal as well.

i actually used to live in the last house on the end a few doors down from the restaurant where the little bridge is.

i think you might have meant to put that commen in the kebab thread though.

David129

aoa321 wrote: »

Hi,

Does anybody know how they make / have a recipe for the very tasty chicken (buffalo) wings from the Elephant & Castle restaraunt in Dublin's Temple Bar.

Franks Sauce + butter , frank can be bought in Fallon & Byrne just off George St

Mike Litoris

David129 wrote: »

Franks Sauce + butter , frank can be bought in Fallon & Byrne just off George St

...or most Superquinn. 1/3 unsalted butter to 1 part Franks - Boil for 10 mins. Coat wings in Flour/Cornflour/Smoked Paprika mix, Deep fry for 12 mins, Coat in Sauce.

vibe666

David129 wrote: »

Franks Sauce + butter , frank can be bought in Fallon & Byrne just off George St

you might have considered reading a bit of the rest of the thread before replying to a post from 2004.

and you can get franks just about anywhere these days, it's a long way from being a speciality item now. I live all the way out in navan and i know of at least 4 or 5 places that stock it, inc. the local supervalu & tescos.

have a good read of the thread though, there's lots of different ways of doing Buffalo wings (and other stuff using Franks) and more than one method that wipes the floor with anything you'll get from Elephant & Castle.

WilcoOut

Buffalo 19 on the Harolds Cross Road, Dublin 6 do excellent wings!

they also do home delivery, yum yum

Mellor

Where can i get Franks hotsauce in Oz for anybody that's been here?
Google no help

laoisforliam

Ha Mellor I went through that when I arrived here, google was no help at all and I went so far as to signing up to usa foods website http://www.usafoods.com.au/c8/sauces/hot-spicy/ in order to get my fix..

However, just before I decided to buy bulk on line, I was in David Jones in Perth and in the small food section I found 20 bottles of Franks..

I bought 8 straight away!!
I spoke to a guy working there and he said it sells out very quickly so I had to make hay and all that...
So David Jones it is!!

Mellor

I'll give DJ a look, thanks. I seen usafoods, but a bit pricy with shipping too i imagine.

gerryk

Mellor wrote: »

Where can i get Franks hotsauce in Oz for anybody that's been here?
Google no help

Cole's might be a good bet. They have a 'foreign' section, that stocks such exotica as Kerrygold butter and Oreos.

Mellor

The foriegn secion doesn't include the states AFAIK,
It's UK stuff, south affrican, asian, indian.

Pretty sure it doesn't do kerry gold either, i wish it did.

WilcoOut

how much white wine vinegar should i add to my sauce?

vibe666

WilcoOut wrote: »

how much white wine vinegar should i add to my sauce?

none at all, ever! :eek:

Have a read of the thread from page 5 onwards.

WilcoOut

vibe666 wrote: »

none at all, ever! :eek:

Have a read of the thread from page 5 onwards.

i really feel my sauce is missing that little kick that tribeca and buffalo 19 posses in their sauce

coversly, i got wings from the 'lets eat in' and they were poisonous. it was like eating wings in pure vingar, they were awful

vibe666

if you are talking about vinegar twang, then just don't cook the sauce out so much with the butter, melt the butter then add the franks at the end just to heat it through before you toss in the wings.

if you want more spice, then adding some smoked paprika (either that really nice one you get in the red tins or the tesco's speciality one, but not the schwartz one it's awful) and maybe even some chilli powder or pepper.

i just can't see how adding any kind of vinegar to something that is already so vinegary to start with is going to improve the flavour?

i deep fry my wings but i flour them beforehand with 1/3 cornflour & 2/3 regular plain white flour with a teaspoon of pepper & smoked paprika in the mixture and they come out great that way, but i also cook out the butter & franks until it starts to separate as well, so that might not be what you're looking for either.

WilcoOut

cheers for your reply and advice!

but im convinced a small dash of white wine vinegar will achieve what im lookin for so im gonna try it now and ill report back with my findings!

vibe666

each to their own.

Mike Litoris

Vibe, you're method is what I've been following 'cept I use unsalted butter. The smoked paprika is the way to go too.

I tried the white wine vinegar thing but found it added feck all to the taste.

I also finally got my hands on some ghee after being afraid to ask for it at the Indian shop. I'll report back in this thread what the results like.

Also saw Franks in Dunnes to day on promo for €2 per bottle.