Smoked and Fried Thai Red Curry Lemon Pepper Wings

Name: Smoked and Fried Thai Red Curry Lemon Pepper Wings
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: ¼ cup (60 ml) soy sauce; 2 tablespoons (30 ml) fish sauce; 1 tablespoon (15 ml) lime juice; 1 tablespoon (15 ml) rice vinegar; 1 tablespoon (12 g) palm sugar or brown sugar; 1 tablespoon (6 g) Thai red curry powder; 2 cloves garlic, minced; 1 teaspoon grated ginger; 1 teaspoon turmeric powder; ½ teaspoon black pepper; ½ teaspoon chili flakes or powder (adjust to spiciness preference); ½ teaspoon chili flakes or powder (adjust to spiciness preference); 16 whole chicken wings; 2 tablespoons (30 ml) vegetable oil to coat wings; Vegetable oil for frying; 2 tablespoons (30 ml) lemon juice; 2 teaspoons fresh lemon zest; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon 16-mesh black pepper; 1 teaspoon palm sugar or white sugar; 1 teaspoon palm sugar or white sugar; 1 teaspoon (9 g) lemongrass powder (sub Thai curry powder); 1 teaspoon (9 g) lemongrass powder (sub Thai curry powder); Thai chilies, sliced; ¼ cup (4 g) chopped cilantro; Lime wedges

Preparation info

Serves
8
as an appetizer

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Asian Smoke

By Andrew Ho , Andrew Samia and Sean Wen

Published 2026

About

Wings are Andrew Samia’s guilty pleasure, and it doesn’t have to be the Super Bowl or a massive sporting event to have them. He eats them on school nights, weekends, National Tax Day, Halloween, dinner parties, and Quinceañeras. Smoking the wings tenderizes and imparts a layer of barbecued depth, and frying them gives you that crispy skin we all crave. While lemon pepper is the flavor we prefer, this wing marin

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Asia
Thailand
Dinner
Starter
Halloween

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