Buffalo chicken wings with blue cheese dip

10 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 tablespoons Melted butter
4 tablespoons Tabasco Sauce
2 tablespoons Rice vinegar
30 Chicken wings or drumettes
Paprika; for dusting
Lettuce leaves; for lining platter
Celery sticks; for accompaniment -Blue Cheese Dip---
½ cup Soft tofu
2 tablespoons Rice vinegar
⅓ cup Nonfat plain yogurt
¼ cup Sour cream
2 Cloves garlic; pressed
3 ounces Blue cheese; crumbled

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix together butter, Tabasco, and vinegar. Dip chicken into mixture, then place on a lightly oiled baking sheet. Dust with paprika.

2. Bake chicken until crisp and brown (about 30 minutes).

3. To serve, arrange chicken on a platter lined with lettuce leaves. Set a bowl of Blue Cheese Dip in the center and celery sticks on the side.

~ ----- Blue Cheese Dip ----- In a blender puree tofu, vinegar, yogurt, sour cream, and garlic until smooth. Stir in blue cheese. Spoon into a serving bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and chill until chicken is baked.

Makes about 1-½ cups.

NOTES : This popular hors d'oeuvre has gained national fame in a very short time. The original recipe calls for deep-fried chicken wings, but in this healthier version they are baked. Serve hot from the oven with celery sticks and Blue Cheese Dip made with yogurt and sour cream.

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #1067 by Nancy <BNRead@...> on Jan 31, 1998

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