astray recipes: Buffalo chicken wings with blue cheese dip

Categories: Appetizers; Hors d'; Oeuvres
Yield: 10 Servings

Measure	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

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

buffalo chicken wings with blue cheese dip