How to Make Perfect Chicken wings with bacon

Chicken wings with bacon. Chicken wings are one of my all-time favorite appetizers. They're cheap, hard to mess up, and can be made in endless ways. Normally, if I'm cooking a lot of chicken wings, I'll bust out the fryer, but sometimes baking the wings makes more sense.

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Ingredients of Chicken wings with bacon

Prepare 3 lb of chicken wings, separated (approx. 24 pieces).
Prepare 12 slices of thick cut bacon, halved and stretched.
Prepare to taste of Black pepper.
Prepare of Pink salt, to dry the wings while sitting.

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Chicken wings with bacon step by step

Air-dry the wings. While you wait, crush the salt and pepper together with a mortar and pestle..
When the wings are dry, toss them lightly in the crushed salt and pepper..
Once dusted, place on a rack to dry..
Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees F..
Wrap a slice of bacon diagonally around each winglet..
Place on a rack, wrapped side down..
Place inside oven and bake for 35 minutes..
Flip over and bake another 35 minutes, watching carefully for scorching, until other side has identical crispness..
Remove from oven and drizzle with salad dressing/sauce of choice..

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