Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings
These Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings are quick and easy to make. These wings are drizzled in melted butter, garlic, and fresh lemon juice. This is the perfect weeknight meal!
Servings 4 servings
Calories 441kcal
Ingredients
- 2 pounds chicken wings I use drummettes.
- 2 teaspoons lemon pepper seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- salt to taste
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- cooking oil spray I use olive oil.
Lemon Pepper Glaze
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
Oven and Baking Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Pat the chicken dry and place it on a large bowl or plastic bag.
- Add the flour, lemon pepper seasoning, smoked paprika, and salt to the chicken. Ensure the chicken is fully coated.
- Line a sheet pan with parchment paper and add the wings. Spritz the chicken wings with cooking oil.
- Bake the wings for 20 minutes and then open and flip the wings. Spritz with cooking oil. Bake for an additional 10 minutes.
- Heat a saucepan on medium-high heat. Add the butter, lemon juice, lemon zest, and garlic powder.
- Cook for 2-3 minutes until the mixture is incorporated.
- Remove the chicken from the oven and drizzle the wings in the lemon butter sauce. Ensure all of the chicken is coated, if not, each wing won't have the lemon pepper. Add additional lemon juice if necessary to fully coat.
- Return the chicken to the oven. Bake for an additional 10-15 minutes.
Air Fryer Instructions
- Pat the chicken dry and place it on a large bowl or plastic bag.
- Add the flour, lemon pepper seasoning, and salt to the chicken. Ensure the chicken is fully coated.
- Place the chicken in the air fryer basket. Spritz the chicken with cooking oil.
- Air fry for 15 minutes on 400 degrees.
- Open the air fryer and flip the chicken. Spritz the chicken with cooking oil. Cook for an additional 5 minutes.
- Heat a saucepan on medium-high heat. Add the butter, lemon juice, lemon zest, and garlic powder.
- Cook for 2-3 minutes until the mixture is incorporated.
- Remove the chicken from the air fryer and drizzle it with the lemon butter sauce. Ensure all of the chicken is coated, if not, each wing won't have the lemon pepper. Add additional lemon juice if necessary to fully coat.
- Return the chicken to the air fryer. Air fry for an additional 3-4 minutes on 400 degrees.
Notes
- I like to put the wings back into the oven or the air fryer after drizzling the lemon butter sauce so that it soaks into the skin of the chicken. You can wait to do this step immediately upon serving the wings if you wish. This also helps if you're finding some wings do not have lemon flavor (because they weren't properly drizzled), you can drizzle them with juice once fully cooked.
- If you are having trouble spraying the wings with oil because of the flour, you can allow them to cook for about 5 minutes and then spritz the oil. The will prevent the breading from coming off.
- To make this recipe low carb you can swap the all-purpose flour for baking powder. I usually only use a tablespoon of baking powder.
- You can use actual wings (instead of drums and flats) if you wish, you may need to adjust the amount of ingredients needed to fully coat your wings.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 441kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 32g | Fat: 26g