Sunday Gravy with yeah right: Korean Style gochujang wings and Loaded Tots!

Good morning folks.

To address the obvious I am in no way, shape or form bothered by the injury to the Vikings rookie QB. PERIOD. He was supposed to have a year or two off to develop and now he has the first year guaranteed off.

Sit your ass over there and hold this clipboard.

That’s it. I have low expectations but a high opinion of the overall team so let’s just wait and see shit develop first.

On that note…

Kickoff approaches! And the closer we get to game time the closer we need to examine possible game day food. Even considering possible tailgate food choices.

It’s time to think about football food dammit!

All of the wonderful, unhealthy, salty, spicy, savory things that go fantastic with beer and can easily be consumed while watching TV.

This menu today fits all of those categories. 

If this one looks familiar, then thank you for being a long time reader and that’s a pretty goddamn keen eye you got there.

Although the previous time I did not make loaded tots nor have they ever been featured on Sunday Gravy before so it’s TOT-TIME TODAY!

I have indeed made Korean style gochujang wings before but it had been entirely too fucking long since I had them and I felt I should remedy that bullshit.

So stealing directly from myself, here we go.

“Korean style spicy chicken wings.

1/2 to 3/4 cup of gochujang

2 tablespoons of dark brown sugar

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

2 tablespoons of rice vinegar

2 teaspoons of sesame oil

1 teaspoon of grated or minced ginger

1/3 cup of diced green onions

5 cloves of garlic minced.

3 pounds of chicken wings cut into “drumettes” and “flats” with the tips removed

1 teaspoon of toasted sesame seeds

1 disposable aluminum pan. Seriously. Get the lasagne pan size not the big ass turkey cooking size.”

Mince the ginger and garlic.

These badass wings are called Gochujang wings for a reason. Let’s break that shit out!

We’ve talked this up before but gochujang is, according to the wikis, “A savory, sweet, and spicy fermented condiment popular in Korean cooking.”

It’s basically a red chili paste with some sweet and some funk and a hefty motherfucking kick of heat.

If you haven’t used it you can start fucking around with it by replacing your barbecue sauce with it, then the possibilities are endless. We’ve used it before and featured it before and I’ll keep saying the same shit I said before because this stuff is fucking awesome.

Please. Branch out and give this a go if you haven’t already.

You need to add some brown sugar for balance and to “cut” the gochujang a bit.

Doesn’t that shit look delicious already?

Get yourself some sesame oil.

Combine with the rice vinegar, garlic and ginger then mix everything together and you’ve got the wing sauce!

This shit is going to be so damn good.

Get some wings.

Already cut to flats and drums this time thereby eliminating any potential scars from the chicken butchery.

Put the wings in one of our handy 1 gallon zip top freezer bags and add in the sauce.

Combine.

Let mingle overnight.

With all of that sugar and gochujang and such, you really want to use one of these for the baking part. You would get a sticky-ass mess that wouldn’t even be worth an attempt to wash.

Save the misery and the cookware.

The choice for a side dish today was as easy a choice as I’ve ever had on this site.

If you are a wing person like myself, and I’m betting the vast majority of you good folks out there fall into this category, then you probably got a local wing spot – or two – and maybe even a big national chain that you may visit that serves wings with loaded tots.

It’s just a fucking perfect combination.

Now, since none of those big national chains actually pay my ass to speak for them, they can go fuck themselves. I’m sure you know the national chain or two I’m hinting about.

These tots can be super fucking simple and cheap to make at home too.

We can even use a shortcut or two if we want. Here’s one right here.

Also not a paying sponsor but as far as store bought quesos go this is a pretty solid one. Got a little bit of a kick but not too much and it’s got the “melt” we are looking for in the finished product.

The rest of this is easy as a motherfucker.

Get them tots ready for the oven.

Exactly. The frozen bag we all know. Follow directions to cook in the oven or shit man, you can fry them up too. Your call.

We will start cooking the wings first.

Take the wings out of the refrigerator a good hour or two before cooking so they reach room temperature,

Dump the wings and sauce into our disposable pan, then these will go in a preheated 350 degree oven for 20 minutes, after which we crank the heat to 425 and cook for 20 minutes more. You can also time your tots to finish at the same temp around the same time.

While they’re cooking, cook some bacon.

Extra crispy so it crumbles nicely.

Take the wings out of the oven after they’ve cooked.

That’s real pretty right there. Not to mention the smell. Use your olfactory imagination and take a big whiff.

Go ahead.

Garlic? Ginger, chilies? Ain’t that a motherfucker right there?

Damn right it is.

We do want to sexy them up a bit with some toasted sesame seeds.

Just toast these in a dry skillet for a few minutes until they impart a lovely toasty aroma.

Finally dice up your green onion. Both the green and white parts. Now here you have a choice. You can put the diced green onion both on the wings and the tots or one or the other or neither. We’re making this as easy as fucking possible cuz we’re pretending football is on TV or some shit.

You can also use this time to nuke a scoop or two of that queso to put on the tots in a second.

Plate it up!

And the typical close ups.

Wings first.

That big chunk in the middle that looks like a slab of ribs really is a wing, it’s just got some breast meat still attached and there’s NOTHING wrong with that!

The tots.

Yeah, you already know these damn things are going to kick some righteous ass.

This shit is a perfect balance. The wings are spicy, earthy, sweet, tangy and funky. They make your taste buds just fucking dance. Follow that with a crispy, cheesy, bacon-y tot. Add the sharp, fresh note of the green onion and well just, fuck.

This shit is ridiculous and it’s perfect football food!

It’s easy to make, can be eaten in front of the television and it requires many, many cold frosty adult beverages.

Is this not what you want for game day!?!

I certainly do.

We’re getting close kids. Only two more episodes of season ten of Sunday Gravy then we kick this motherfucking shit OFF!

Hell yes.

How about we get together again next Sunday?

Sound good?

I’ll see you then. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

PEACE!