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South Asian eateries try ‘going local’ as recovery strategy
Hotels and restaurants across South Asia have had to adapt and reimagine dining out since the pandemic ripped through the region, forcing many out of business.
Those that have survived are tapping local sources and going online.
In India, from hole-in-the-wall casual eateries to fine dining, restaurants were devastated by lockdowns and virus outbreaks, with millions losing their jobs since COVID-19 hit in early 2020.
In neighboring Sri Lanka, where the tourism-driven economy also has been hammered by political upheavals and shortages, the situation remains dire.
Saman Nayanananda, a food and beverage manager at a hotel chain in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, says going local for food sourcing and menu offerings is vital.
Nayanananda, who was in New Delhi recently for the South Asian Food for Thought festival, survived a devastating tsunami in 2004 that killed 230,000. He lived through a prolonged civil war that ended in 2009 and witnessed the aftermath of deadly 2019 Easter terrorist attacks. After every calamity, the economy managed to get back on its feet.
The struggle to recover for the nation of 22 million is infinitely tougher given Sri Lanka's troubles with debt, fuel and food shortages, said the 50-year-old hospitality industry veteran.
“We had lot of challenges, including raw materials and the transport problems. A year after COVID, all hotels started food delivery. We were slowly recovering and then this economic crisis came. We ran out of both imported and local materials. Again back to zero,” said Nayanananda, who lost his job at a tourist resort in 2020 as everything shut down.
“We recovered from terrorism, from the tsunami, but this crisis, it has broken the middle class,” he said. With food inflation at 70% and hard currency to buy from abroad in short supply, going local both in terms of food sourcing and menu offerings is the only option.
“We came out with the concept of grow and sell. We replaced imported production with local production, coming up with innovative food items,” he said, mentioning dishes using locally grown sweet potatoes, cassava, yams and cowpeas, or black-eyed peas.
Across the region, hotels and restaurants are finding past business models obsolete. That's forcing a reset in strategies as investments recover to meet rising demand from hungry diners eager to eat out again.
India’s food services market is expected to grow to $79 billion by 2028 from $41 billion in 2022, according to a report by the Francorp and restaurantindia.in. But the sector will still face supply delays or shortages, the report says.
Maneesh Baheti, founder and director of the South Asian Association for Gastronomy, said that the pandemic has raised awareness about health concerns and food sourcing, leading the industry to adopt more sustainable practices.
That includes offering dishes made with locally sourced ingredients.
“Eating fresh local produce according to season, returning to diets rich in nuts, legumes and green leafy vegetables, are trends that are here to stay as they engage customers who are now a health conscious-aware segment with deep pockets,” Baheti said.
“The entire food industry has realized the importance of promoting better health and the potential of wellness-based menus,” Baheti added. “Eating local and eating fresh also helps in reducing the carbon footprint since the dependence on transportation and refrigeration reduces the emission of green house gases," he said.
As the food services industry rebuilds itself, restaurant owners say some practices born out of necessity during the pandemic can offer a way forward.
Many urban communities are experimenting with plant-based diets and growing farm produce on their rooftops and in backyards.
Siddharth Bandal, a partner at the Hideaway café and bar in the western Indian state of Goa, said they've learned to be nimble enough to adapt to changing customer behavior.
“It possibly made the sector stronger by exposing the weak spots and the industry has shown its resilience by adapting quickly. The pandemic made everyone more alert about hygiene. There is a renewed focus on guest experience and the eateries are evolving as they respond to the shift towards healthier food,” Bandal said.
In Colombo, Nayanananda began cycling to work and growing food at home after markets ran dry and it became difficult to feed his family of four.
In Sri Lanka and elsewhere in Asia, a wave of COVID-19 infections in China after it dropped its pandemic controls has revived worries over the risk of a return to shutdowns and other restrictions. But Nayanananda says he's hopeful.
“What is important is to learn to live with what we have in our hands,” he said.
Vivienne Westwood, influential fashion maverick, dies at 81
Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81.
Westwood’s eponymous fashion house announced her death on social media platforms, saying she died peacefully. A cause was not disclosed.
“Vivienne continued to do the things she loved, up until the last moment, designing, working on her art, writing her book, and changing the world for the better,” the statement said.
Westwood’s fashion career began in the 1970s when her radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm. But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows and museum exhibitions.
The name Westwood became synonymous with style and attitude even as she shifted focus from year to year, her range vast and her work never predictable.
As her stature grew, she seemed to transcend fashion. The young woman who had scorned the British establishment eventually became one of its leading lights, even as she kept her hair dyed that trademark bright shade of orange.
Andrew Bolton, curator of The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, said Westwood and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren — her onetime partners — “gave the punk movement a look, a style, and it was so radical it broke from anything in the past.”
“The ripped shirts, the safety pins, the provocative slogans,” Bolton said. “She introduced postmodernism. It was so influential from the mid-70s. The punk movement has never dissipated — it’s become part of our fashion vocabulary. It’s mainstream now.”
Westwood’s long career was full of contradictions: She was a lifelong rebel honored several times by Queen Elizabeth II. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting climate change, warning of planetary doom.
In her punk days, Westwood’s clothes were often intentionally shocking: T-shirts decorated with drawings of naked boys and “bondage pants” with sadomasochistic overtones were standard fare in her popular London shops. But Westwood was able to transition from punk to haute couture without missing a beat, keeping her career going without stooping to self-caricature.
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“She was always trying to reinvent fashion. Her work is provocative, it’s transgressive. It’s very much rooted in the English tradition of pastiche and irony and satire. She is very proud of her Englishness, and still she sends it up,” Bolton said.
One of those contentious designs featured a swastika, an inverted image of Jesus Christ on the cross and the word “Destroy.” In an autobiography written with Ian Kelly, she said it was meant as part of a statement against politicians torturing people, citing Chile’s Augusto Pinochet. When asked if she regretted the swastika in a 2009 interview with Time magazine, Westwood said no.
“I don’t, because we were just saying to the older generation, ‘We don’t accept your values or your taboos, and you’re all fascists,’” she responded.
She approached her work with gusto in her early years, but later seemed to tire of the clamor and buzz. After decades of designing, she sometimes spoke wistfully of moving beyond fashion so she could concentrate on environmental matters and educational projects.
“Fashion can be so boring,” she told The Associated Press after unveiling one of her new collections at a 2010 show. “I’m trying to find something else to do.”
Her runway shows were always the most chic events, drawing stars from the glittery world of film, music, and television who wanted to bask in Westwood’s reflected glory. But still she spoke out against consumerism and conspicuous consumption, even urging people not to buy her expensive, beautifully made clothes.
“I just tell people, stop buying clothes,” she said. “Why not protect this gift of life while we have it? I don’t take the attitude that destruction is inevitable. Some of us would like to stop that and help people survive.”
Westwood’s activism extended to supporting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, posing in a giant birdcage in 2020 to try to halt his extradition to the U.S. She even designed the dress Stella Moris wore when she married Assange this past March at a London prison.
Westwood was self-taught, with no formal fashion training. She told Marie Claire magazine that she learned how to make her own clothes as a teenager by following patterns. When she wanted to sell 1950s-style clothes at her first shop, she found old clothes in markets and took them apart to understand the cut and construction.
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Westwood was born in the Derbyshire village of Glossop on April 8, 1941. Her family moved to London in 1957 and she attended art school for one term.
She met McLaren in the 1960s while working as a primary school teacher after separating from her first husband, Derek Westwood. She and McLaren opened a small shop in Chelsea in 1971, the tail end of the “Swinging London” era ushered in by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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The shop changed its name and focus several times, operating as “SEX” — Westwood and McLaren were fined in 1975 for an “indecent exhibition” there — and “World’s End” and “Seditionaries.”
Among the workers at their shop was Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, who called Westwood “a one off, driven, single minded, talented lady” in a statement to The Associated Press.
He said it was a privilege “to have rubbed shoulders with her in the mid ’70s at what was the birth of punk and the worldwide waves it created that still continue to echo and resound today for the disaffected, hipper and wised up around the globe.”
“Vivienne is gone and the world is already a less interesting place,” tweeted Chrissie Hynde, the frontwoman of the Pretenders and another former employee.
Westwood moved into a fresh type of designing with her “Pirates” collection, exhibited in her first catwalk show in 1981. That breakthrough is credited with taking Westwood in a more traditional direction, showing her interest in incorporating historical British designs into contemporary clothes.
It was also an important step in an ongoing rapprochement between Westwood and the fashion world. The rebel eventually became one of its most celebrated stars, known for reinterpreting opulent dresses from the past and often finding inspiration in 18th century paintings.
But she still found ways to shock: Her Statue of Liberty corset in 1987 is remembered as the start of “underwear as outerwear” trend.
She eventually branched out into a range of business activities, including an alliance with Italian designer Giorgio Armani, and developed her ready-to-wear Red Label line, her more exclusive Gold Label line, a menswear collection and fragrances called Boudoir and Libertine. Westwood shops opened in New York, Hong Kong, Milan and several other major cities.
She was named designer of the year by the British Fashion Council in 1990 and 1991.
Her uneasy relationship with the British establishment is perhaps best exemplified by her 1992 trip to Buckingham Palace to receive an Order of the British Empire medal: She wore no underwear, and posed for photographers in a way that made that abundantly clear.
Apparently the queen was not offended: Westwood was invited back to receive the even more auspicious designation of Dame Commander of the British Empire — the female equivalent of a knighthood — in 2006.
Westwood is survived by her second husband, the Austrian-born designer Andreas Kronthaler who had a fashion line under her brand, and two sons.
The first, fashion photographer Ben Westwood, was her son with Derek Westwood. The second, Joe Corre — her son with McLaren — co-founded the upscale Agent Provocateur lingerie line and once burned what he said was a collection of punk memorabilia worth millions: “Punk was never, never meant to be nostalgic,” he said.
5 Exciting BBQ and Grilling Recipes for New Year’s Eve
Who doesn’t like to celebrate special occasions like new year's eve with exciting recipes? Barbeque grilling recipes are always famous for celebrations, especially New Year parties. The new year celebration with family members, friends, relatives, and neighbors can be special and vibrant with our 5 best BBQ grilling recipes.
5 BBQ Grilling Recipes for New Year’s Eve
Grilled Vegetable Recipe
Ingredients
For Dressing
2 tbsp vinegar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper, 2 tbsp mustard, 2 tsp lemon & herbs (signature blends), 1/4 cup oil
For Veggies
2 bell peppers (sliced), 2-5 carrots (large & sliced), 2 zucchini (sliced).
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Directions
First, combine all the ingredients of the dressing in a bowl and mix well. Set aside to use further.
Now cut all of the vegetables into pieces and make sure you cut each pepper into 4 or 5 pieces and some do in the cases of zucchini and carrots. Then pour the dressing mixture into the vegetables and toss nicely.
Prepare the BBQ from 400°F (200°C) to 450°F (230°C). Now grill everything over direct heat and heat for about 5-7 minutes. Then turn over the veggies and grill for another 5-6 minutes. Remove the veggies from the heat and serve with burgers, kabobs, or paratha.
Majestic Silks of Bangladesh Exhibition by Maheen Khan: Fashion in silk gets the heritage touch
Showcasing the rich history of Bangladesh's illustrious silk industry as well as efforts to support and promote local designs, a three-day exclusive solo fashion exhibition titled ‘Majestic Silks of Bangladesh Exhibition by Maheen Khan’, is currently underway at the Nordic Club, Gulshan in the capital.
The solo design exhibition began on Tuesday (December 27, 2022), featuring some of the unique designs of eminent Bangladeshi fashion designer Maheen Khan, the founding president of the Fashion Design Council of Bangladesh (FDCB) and the founding managing director of Mayasir, a trend-setting brand that emphasizes the nation's traditional embroidery.
Sharing her motifs and visions with UNB regarding her major solo exhibition in a long time, Maheen Khan said that this event is proudly showcasing some of the exclusive, handmade crafts as a befitting tribute to the country’s majestic silks.
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5 Delightful Chinese Recipes for Bangladeshi Kitchen
China is a large country and there are huge geographical differences in cuisine because of the diverse climates, history, local ingredients, dining customs, etc. Chinese dishes are worldwide popular and familiar for their color, bouquet, taste, meanings, and surfacing. Let's find out 5 yummy Chinese Recipes for Bengali Kitchen.
5 Mouth-watering Chinese Recipes to Try at Home
Chinese Fried Rice Recipe
Ingredients
3⁄4cup finely (chopped onion), 2 1⁄2 tablespoons oil, 1egg (lightly beaten), 3 drops soy sauce, 3 drops sesame oil, 8 ounces chicken (chopped & cooked), 1⁄2 cup finely chopped carrot, 1⁄2cup peas (frozen & thawed), 4 cups rice (cold & cooked), 4 green onions (chopped), 2 cups bean sprouts, 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
Directions
First, take a pan and fry onions for 8-10 minutes or as long as the onions turn a nice brown color. Drain the onions and put them aside to further use. When the onions become cool, mix egg and 3 drops of soy and 3 drops of sesame oil put aside. Then add 1/2 tbsp oil to the pan and add the egg mixture. Fry the egg on both sides and remove it from the pan when done and chop it into small pieces.
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Now put 1 tbsp oil in the pan and add meat, carrots, peas, and cooked onion and cook for 2 minutes. Then add rice, green onions, and bean sprouts, combine them together and cook for 3 minutes. Finally, add 2 tbsp of light soy sauce, and chopped egg to the rice mixture, fry for 1 minute and serve.
5 New Year Resolutions that are actually achievable
The wheels of time are running and another year is going to end in our life. As the new year approaches new possibilities are coming. To build a successful life and career in 2023 it is essential to make plans and determinations. However, making big plans and tough targets might lead to failure. Let’s find out 5 attainable New Year resolutions that will help you to be successful in professional life and relationships.
5 New Year Resolutions for Better Life and Career
Learn a New Language
Learning a new language opens a door of opportunities. Usually, people learn at least one international language in schools besides their mother language. For instance, in Bangladesh, English is taught in educational institutes as an international language. Besides English, there are many other international languages like German, French, Chinese, Russian, etc.
If you can make a resolution to learn a new international language, it will not only help you find new employment options; but also sharpen your mind.
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Learn a New Life Skill
Many adults lack basic life skills like cooking, swimming, driving, etc. However, your life might go on without knowing the basic life skills. But life skills can make you more confident. And who knows sometimes life skills can save your life during emergency situations.
If you wish to learn any certain life skill, but couldn’t do that due to lack of time or other reasons, take it as your new year's resolution. You can reserve a certain time in your daily routine or make plans on the weekend to learn and practice your desired life skill.
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Learn a New Professional Skill
Due to the pandemic many businesses have been affected leaving a blow on the job market in most countries around the world. Therefore, learning a new professional skill like digital marketing, graphic design, video editing, etc can give you scope to earn extra cash through freelancing or outsourcing.
What’s more, you can learn advanced skills regarding your current job or profession. For instance, if you are a programmer, make a resolution to learn an advanced programming language that can strengthen your CV, secure your career and help you make handsome incomes.
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Adopt a Good Habit
Humans are built with habits. Some are good while some are bad. The new year gives you the opportunity to rethink your habits.
You can make a resolution to build a good habit considering your health, passion and profession. For instance, if you are doing a desk job, try to build a habit of walking one hour everyday or 3 days a week. If you have dreams of traveling abroad, make a resolution to build a habit of saving.
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Get Rid of a Bad Habit
Certainly, you have some bad habits that are ruining your precious time or health like smoking, social media addiction, fast food addiction, a sedentary lifestyle, etc. Therefore, you can target one or two habits you want to change and make a resolution in the new year.
Getting rid of an old habit that you have practiced for years won't be easy; but it won't be impossible either. It takes strong determination and patience.
For instance, if you make a new year's resolution to quit smoking, then find alternatives that can discourage you from lighting a cigarette. You can give yourself incentives for the successful attainment of your resolution.
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Bottom Line
As a new year comes we grow old. Still, experiencing the new year is a blessing and joyful for everyone. Why not make some resolutions to make our life and health better. So far, we have discussed 5 attainable new year resolution ideas for 2023. You can make your own resolutions to make the upcoming year prosperous, peaceful, and felicitous.
5 Christmas Dinner Recipes for Bangladeshi Kitchen
Christmas is a religious and cultural annual festival of the Christian community that is celebrated every year on 25th December. Christian people around the world celebrate the day to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God. Any celebration and festival cannot be enjoyed properly without healthy, yummy, and cozy food items. Let’s find out 5 delicious Christmas Dinner recipes to enjoy with your family.
5 Christmas Dinner Main Course Recipes
Vegetable and Chicken Skewers Recipe
Ingredients
400 gm chicken breasts, 240 gm onion, 240 gm yellow bell pepper, 5 gm oregano, salt as required, 240 gm zucchini, 240 gm red bell pepper, 5 gm powdered black pepper, 150 ml virgin olive oil, lemon wedges as required, bamboo sticks
Cooking Methods
First, dive the bamboo sticks into the water for at least 10 minutes. Then cut the chicken and vegetables. Cut all the vegetables into 1’’ square pieces. Now take a large bowl and put olive oil, salt, crushed black paper, and oregano herbs and mix them well. Then marinate the chopped vegetables and chicken in such a way that all the pieces are coated well. Marinate them not for a long time just for 5-6 minutes.
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Preheat the grill or oven. Now take the bamboo sticks and put the chicken pieces and veggies into the bamboo skewers. Cook the skewers on preheated grill or oven as long as the vegetables and chicken are tender. Cook well on both sides and make sure you prevent burning. Garnish with lemon wedges.
For People and Planet: New cookbook with insights into carbon footprint of each dish
Crab cakes made with fonio, an ancient West African grain, or Ratatouille prepared with "imperfect" produce to reduce food waste, are only a couple of the over 70 recipes included in a recently launched cookbook with climate-friendly and delicious recipes.
The Cookbook in Support of the United Nations: For People and Planet" is divided into chapters that include food systems, biodiversity, sustainable consumption and production, climate, as well as food waste, providing recipes, yes, but also insights into the carbon footprint of each dish.
Renowned chefs such as UN World Food Programme (WFP) Goodwill Ambassador Chef Manal Al Alem, and Chef José Andres, as well as indigenous home cooks and farmers from around the world, have contributed to the book.
The book is the brainchild of Kitchen Connection, an organisation that for a decade has been bridging together culinary arts, sustainability and education, and driving the discussions on the need for a food systems transformation.
"We found that those in the highest-emitting countries in the world emit through our food choices about 3 kilograms of CO2 emissions per meal. The recipes in this book have 58.6 percent less carbon compared to an average meal from high-emitting regions of the world," Kitchen Connection founder and New York University Professor Earlene Cruz, told UN News.
The cookbook also highlights and follows the World Health Organization's macronutrient guidelines, making the recipes not only healthy for the planet, but also for everyone.
But most of all, it puts a spotlight on how important people's food choices are and how they can impact their immediate environment, no matter where they cook.
Cruz said: "Whether we're in cities, in suburban or rural areas, or somewhere as remote as Antarctica, consideration of our food choices and how they impact our immediate environment is paramount."
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5 Scrumptious Chicken Wing Recipes
Chicken wing recipes can be a great choice when you think of something that’s easy to cook and fun to eat. Chicken wings recipes are a quick, yummy, healthy, and satisfying dish that you can serve for snacks, lunch, or dinner with a side salad or sauce. You can customize them to any flavor you are craving. We are here with 5 chicken wing recipes that are tender, juicy, and flavorful.
5 Mouth-watering Chicken Wing Recipes
Honey Garlic Chicken Wings Recipe
Ingredients
½ cup flour, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, ½ teaspoon pepper, ½ teaspoon salt, 910 g chicken winglets, oil, for frying
Ingredients for Honey garlic sauce:
1 tablespoon butter, one tablespoon garlic, minced, 1 tablespoon ginger, ½ cup soy sauce(120 mL), 5 tablespoons honey, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 1 teaspoon sesame seed, scallion
Preparation
First, prepare a mixture of flour, garlic powder, pepper, and salt. Glaze each chicken wing with a liberal layer of the flour mixture. Heat oil in a shallow pan and fry the chicken wings for 4 minutes. Fry each side of every wing well.
After frying, put on a paper towel. Melt the butter and add the garlic, ginger, soy sauce, honey, and brown sugar to the pan, cook for 5-7 minutes and stir continuously. Add the fried wings to the pan and mix well. Then add sesame seeds. Garnish with scallions and serve.
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Sweet Soy Chicken Wings Recipe
Ingredients
8 chicken wings, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tabs pepper, 1/2 tbsp potato starch, frying oil (as needed)
Ingredients for Sweet soy glaze:
½ cup soy sauce, ¼ cup mirin, one-fourth cup sugar, ¼ cup sake, 1 clove garlic, grated
Ingredients for Garnish:
toasted white sesame seed
Preparation:
First, prepare the oven to about 160˚C (320˚F). Coat nicely on both sides of the chicken wings with salt and pepper. Season with potato starch also. Bake the wings in the preheated oven for 7 minutes. Then heat oil in a pan and fry the wings for 3 minutes to make them golden brown. Remove from the heat and put on a paper towel.
Now prepare the glaze by combining and cooking all the ingredients in a pan. Minimize the heat when it becomes thick. Toss the chicken wings with the glaze. Garnish with the garnishing ingredient and serve.
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Honey BBQ Chicken Wings Recipe
Ingredients
1 cup flour, one teaspoon chili powder, 1 teaspoon salt, one teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground, 1 teaspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, 20 chicken wings, 1 cup BBQ sauce, ½ cup honey
Preparation
First, prepare the oven to 425°F or 220°C. Take a large bowl and mix together flour, chili powder, salt, pepper, paprika, and garlic powder. Coat the wings with the mixture and make sure you shake off the excess flour.
Now prepare the baking sheet and spread the floured wings in a single layer. Bake the wings for 45 minutes or until the skin is crispy and golden brown. Now prepare the oven to 500°F (250°C) and mix the BBQ sauce and the honey in a bowl. Coat the baked wings in the sauce and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
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Fried Chicken Wings Recipe
Ingredients
1 egg, one cup milk, 1 Tbsp vinegar, 2 lbs chicken wing portions, 3/4 cup flour, 1/4 cup saltine crackers, one fourth tsp ground black pepper, 1/4 tsp ground dried thyme, 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/8 tsp garlic powder, Oil for frying
Preparation
First, mix the egg, milk, and vinegar together to make homemade buttermilk. Then coat the chicken wings with the buttermilk, cover, and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Heat the oil in a pan to 350 degrees F or 180 degrees C. Meanwhile mix together the flour and crushed crackers with the pepper, thyme, cayenne pepper, salt, and garlic powder.
Remove a chicken wing portion from the buttermilk marinade, shake off excessive buttermilk, and coat with the crumbs. Fry each wing on both sides for about 10 - 12 minutes. Put the fried wings on the paper towel and serve with your favorite sauces.
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Salt and Pepper Chicken Wings Recipe
Ingredients
3 pounds party wings approx. 36 wings3 teaspoons salt, 4 teaspoons crushed black pepper, 4 teaspoons sesame oil, 5 cloves garlic chopped, 4 green onions diced, chili pepper flakes optional but the heat is nice!
Preparation
First, make your oven ready to 450 degrees. Mix salt and pepper together in a bowl and mix the chicken wings. Now put the chicken wings on an oiled baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes on both sides to make them very crispy.
Meanwhile, heat the sesame oil in a pan and add the garlic and onions and fry as long as the garlic has become brown in color. Then, remove the chicken wings from the oven and toss them with the garlic oil, and coat nicely. Garnish with the leftover garlic oil and serve.
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Bottom Line
We are rounding up 5 yummy chicken wing recipes that are easy to prepare in the oven or air fryer. Besides snacking, these dishes are perfect for a family lunch or dinner. These recipes offering classic flavors, and delicious taste will win everyone's heart in minutes.
5 Exciting Chicken Meatball Recipes
If you are a fan of chicken dishes, you must love meatballs. Chicken meatballs are nutritious, low-carb, protein-packed, flavorful, and really easy to prepare. Combined with Chicken meatballs, you can prepare popular dishes like pizza pasta sandwiches, curry, etc. Both adults and children find these recipes appetizing. If you love feeding your family healthy food, check out our delightful chicken meatball recipes.
How to Prepare Chicken Meatballs
To prepare chicken meatballs, you need put ground chicken, eggs, breadcrumbs, Parmesan cheese, olive oil, and seasonings in a medium size bowl. Mix everything together. Then take 1 tbsp mixture in your hand and roll 1-inch balls.
Put all the raw meatballs on a foil-lined sheet pan to bake them. Put them in the oven and bake as long as the meatballs are golden brown and cooked through. Garnish with fresh parsley and serve.
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