Does anyone have a good buffalo wing (hot wing) sauce that is FAT FREE?

Question

I have had good success with simple butter and Frank's Red Hot and other louisiana hot sauces and garlic, but the fat of the butter is just terrible. I tried margarine and it does not work as well and the fat is not that much lower. Does anyone have a good recipe for hot wing sauce that is FAT FREE (or dang close to it)?

The original recipe for hot wings is this:

Equal amounts butter and Frank's Red Hot, that's it, that is the original.

Also, we use chicken breast home-breaded and baked, not wings and no skin.

I am looking for something that has the same heat and flavor as the original without the butter.

We already use spices in our breading to get some of the heat and flavor, but we love the sauce for dipping and tossing the chicken bites in after baking. Need to find a sauce that is just as good, that we can cook at home (have tried all the fat-free bottled sauces, including Frank's and do not like them) that is fat free or as close to it as we can get. As stated, we have tried substituting butter substitutes and margarine and it does not work.

We will try any recipes suggested, and thanks for the advice so far.

Answer 1

Use Salsa!

Habanero Salsa
• 2 pound medium tomatillos, husked, rinsed
• 1/2 medium white onion
• 4 garlic cloves, peeled
• 1 - 1 1/2 inch fresh habanero peppers
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
• 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 1 teaspoon salt
Preheat broiler. Line rimmed baking sheet with foil. Arrange tomatillos, onion, garlic, and chile on prepared baking sheet. Broil until vegetables blacken in spots (about 5 minutes per side for the chilies and 10 minutes per side for tomatillos, onion, and garlic).
Transfer vegetables and any accumulated juices to blender. Add cilantro, lime juice, and salt. Puree until smooth. Transfer salsa to bowl. Cover and refrigerate until cold - at least 1 hour. Season salsa to taste with desired added salt.

Per 1/8 cup serving: 14 Calories; trace Fat (22.2% calories from fat); trace Saturated Fat; trace Protein; 3g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 1mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Fat.
http://www.lowfatlifestyle.com/sauces_dressings/sauceandressingrecipes/habanerosalsa.htm


Low fat sauces and dressings
http://www.lowfatlifestyle.com/sauces_dressings/saucesanddressingsindex.htm

Answer 2

Your worried about the fat content in the sauce when you are eating 15 times as much fat from the skin that is on the wing?

Want to save on the calories, then use boneless chicken tenders, oven bake them and use the Franks red hot sauce recipe, which is basically the original recipe that started buffalo hot wings.

Answer 3

In the spice isle there are some packages of cooking mixes. packets for pot roast, meatloaf etc.

There is one for hot wings and comes with an oven bag. It's really good.

Try substituting I can't believe it's not butter spray butter. It's not totally fat free if you use that much but it will be better than real butter.

Answer 4

Are you nuts? Just sprinkle powdered cheyenne pepper and garlic powder and a bunch of sage or the like. You've got enough fat in the wings to compensate for this lack of it. Cook it thru to get it out, and you've got Chicken Delight Heaven.
OK, add Parika.

Answer 5

1/2 cup hot sauce
4 tbs honey
2 tbs vinegar
2 tbs lemon juice
1 heaping tsp dry mustard like Coleman's.

Heat the sauce until it thickens, and then put the wings in, and then cook till it thickens even more, while stirring the wings around

Answer 6

tabasco or texas pete or whichever hot sauce u like, and butter... now to go fat free... get the fat free butter.. if they make it... or just use the hotsauce and some spices....