Sweet & Spicy Gochujang Wings (Oven & Air Fryer Only)

No deep-frying needed โ just your oven or air fryer!
This sweet and spicy Korean-style chicken is crispy, flavorful, and easy to make at home.
If youโve watched a K-drama or Korean movie, youโve probably seen this dish before!
You donโt have to be Korean to make it โ try cooking it yourself today! ๐๐ฐ๐ท
๊ธฐ๋ฆ์ ํ๊ธธ ํ์ ์์ด ์ค๋ธ์ด๋ ์์ดํ๋ผ์ด์ด๋ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถํด์.
๋ฌ์ฝคํ๊ณ ๋งค์ฝคํ ์ฝ๋ฆฌ์ ์๋
์นํจ, ์ง์์๋ ์์ฝ๊ฒ ์ฆ๊ธธ ์ ์๋ต๋๋ค.
K-๋๋ผ๋ง๋ ์ํ์์ ํ ๋ฒ์ฏค์ ๋ณธ ์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ์์!
ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์๋์ด๋ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์์ด์. ์ง๊ธ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋์ ํด๋ณด์ธ์!
๐ Ingredients / ์ฌ๋ฃ
Chicken / ์นํจ – – – – – – – – –

- 1 lb chicken wings or drumettes
๋ญ์ ๋๋ ๋ญ๋ด ์ฝ 450g
- ยฝ cup flour
๋ฐ๊ฐ๋ฃจ 1/2์ปต
- ยฝ cup corn starch
์ฅ์์์ ๋ถ 1/2์ปต
- ยฝ tsp salt
์๊ธ 1/2์์์
- ยฝ tsp black pepper
ํ์ถ 1/2์์์
- 1 tbsp milk OR 1 tbsp water (optional, for better coating)
์ฐ์ 1ํฐ์ ๋๋ ๋ฌผ 1ํฐ์ (์ ํ. ์ฝํ ์ ๋ถ๊ฒ)
- Cooking oil spray
์ค์ผ ์คํ๋ ์ด ์ฝ๊ฐ
Sauce / ์๋ ์์ค – – – – – – – –

- 2 tbsp gochujang
๊ณ ์ถ์ฅ 2ํฐ์
- 2 tbsp ketchup
์ผ์ฒฉ 2ํฐ์
- 2 tbsp honey or corn syrup
๊ฟ ๋๋ ๋ฌผ์ฟ 2ํฐ์
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
๊ฐ์ฅ 1ํฐ์
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
๋ค์ง ๋ง๋ 2์ชฝ
- 1 tsp sesame oil
์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ 1์์์
- (optional) sesame seeds or crushed peanuts for topping
์ ํ: ๊นจ๋ ๋ ์ฝฉ๊ฐ๋ฃจ ์ฝ๊ฐ
๐ณInstructions / ๋ง๋๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ

๐ Step 1. Prep the Chicken 1๋จ๊ณ. ์นํจ ์ค๋นํ๊ธฐ
- Clean and dry the chicken.
Rinse the wings or drumettes under cold water, then pat completely dry with paper towels.
๋ญ์๊ณผ ๋ด์ ์ฐฌ๋ฌผ์ ํน๊ตฐ ๋ค ํค์นํ์๋ก ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์์ ํ ์ ๊ฑฐํ์ธ์.
(The drier the surface, the crispier it gets when cooked.)
ํ๋ฉด์ด ๋ง๋ฅผ์๋ก ๋ ๋ฐ์ญํ๊ฒ ๊ตฌ์์ง๋๋ค. - Light seasoning.
Add salt and pepper, then toss evenly to coat.
์๊ธ๊ณผ ํ์ถ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๊ณจ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ๋ฒ๋ฌด๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
(This step removes any raw smell and adds basic flavor.)
์ด ๋จ๊ณ์์ ๋น๋ฆฐ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ๊ฑฐ๋๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฐฐ์ด์. - Optional soak (for tenderness).
For juicier chicken, add 1 tbsp milk or water, mix, and let rest for 10 minutes.
๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ฉด ์ฐ์ ๋ ๋ฌผ์ 1ํฐ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ 10๋ถ๊ฐ ๋์ธ์.
(A little milk helps reduce the chicken smell even more.)
์ฐ์ ๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ฐ ๋ฃ์ผ๋ฉด ๋์๊ฐ ๋ ์ค์ด์.
๐ง Step 2. Coat the Chicken 2๋จ๊ณ. ์ฝํ ์ ํ๊ธฐ
- Mix flour and corn starch in a bowl.
Combine flour and corn starch in a large bowl.
๋ฐ๊ฐ๋ฃจ์ ์ ๋ถ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. - Add chicken and toss until evenly coated.
Add the chicken and toss until the surface is lightly and evenly coated.
๋ญ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ๊ฒ๋ฉด์ด ์๊ฒ ํ์๊ฒ ์ฝํ ๋ ๋๊น์ง ๋ฒ๋ฌด๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
(The ideal coating is a thin, even white layer. No need for a wet batter.)
๊ฒ๋ฉด์ด ์๊ณ ๊ท ์ผํ ์ฝํ ์ด ์ด์์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ์ฃฝ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ฌฝ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ํ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. - Shake off excess.
Gently shake off extra flour.
๊ฐ๋ฃจ๊ฐ ๊ณผํ๊ฒ ๋ถ์ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ํธ์ด๋ ๋๋ค.
(Too much coating can fall off and burn in the oven or air fryer.)
๋๋ฌด ๋ง์ด ๋ฌป์ผ๋ฉด ์ค๋ธ์ด๋ ์์ดํ๋ผ์ด์ด ์์์ ํ ๋ง์ด ๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๐ณ Step 3A. Air Fryer Method 3A๋จ๊ณ. ์์ดํ๋ผ์ด์ด ์กฐ๋ฆฌ
- Light oil.
Spray a thin layer of cooking oil over the coated chicken.
์ฝํ ๋ ๋ญ์ ์ค์ผ ์คํ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ด์ง ๋ฟ๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
(This helps the surface brown evenly and stay crisp.)
์ด ๋จ๊ณ๊ฐ ๊ฒ๋ฉด์ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ญํ๊ฒ ํด์ค๋๋ค. - Arrange in a single layer.
Place the chicken pieces in a single layer without overlapping.
๋ญ์ ๊ฒน์น์ง ์๊ฒ ํ ์ธต์ผ๋ก๋ง ์ฌ๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
(Overlapping traps moisture and prevents crisping.)
๊ฒน์น๋ฉด ์๋ถ์ด ๋น ์ง์ง ์์ ๋ ๋ฐ์ญํ๊ฒ ๋ผ์. - Cook at 400ยฐF (200ยฐC) for 20โ22 minutes. Flip halfway.
์์ดํ๋ผ์ด์ด๋ฅผ 200๋(400ยฐF)๋ก ์ค์ ํด 20~22๋ถ๊ฐ ๊ตฝ๊ณ , ์ค๊ฐ์ ํ ๋ฒ ๋ค์ง์ต๋๋ค.
Cook until golden brown and crispy on the outside.
๊ฒ์ด ๋ ธ๋ฆํ๊ฒ ์ต์ ๋๊น์ง ์กฐ๋ฆฌํฉ๋๋ค. - Check doneness.
The thickest part should be fully cooked and no longer pink.
๊ฐ์ฅ ๋๊บผ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์์ ํ ์ต๊ณ ๋ถ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์์ด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
๐ฅ Step 3B. Oven Method 3B๋จ๊ณ. ์ค๋ธ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ
- Preheat to 425ยฐF (220ยฐC).
์ค๋ธ์ 220๋๋ก ์์ดํฉ๋๋ค. - Use a rack on top of a baking sheet.
Place a wire rack over a baking sheet and arrange the chicken on top.
์ฒ ๋ง์ ์ค๋ธํฌ ์์ ๋๊ณ ๊ทธ ์์ ์นํจ์ ์ฌ๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
(This lets air circulate and fat drip down for a crispier result.)
๊ณต๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ํ๋์ด ๋ ๋ฐ์ญํ๊ฒ ๊ตฌ์์ง๋๋ค. - Bake for 25โ30 minutes, flipping halfway.
25~30๋ถ๊ฐ ๊ตฝ๊ณ ์ค๊ฐ์ ํ ๋ฒ ๋ค์ง์ต๋๋ค. - Optional crisp step.
Broil on high for 2โ3 minutes at the end for extra crunch.
๋ง์ง๋ง์ ๋ธ๋ก์ผ๋ก 2~3๋ถ ๋ ๊ตฌ์ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ์ญํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ญ๋๋ค.
๐ฏ Step 4. Make the Sauce 4๋จ๊ณ. ์๋ ์์ค ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ
- Combine all sauce ingredients in a small pan.
In a small pan, mix gochujang, ketchup, honey (or syrup), soy sauce, minced garlic, and sesame oil. **The sauce ratio is detailed in the sauce ingredients section.
์์ ํฌ์ ๊ณ ์ถ์ฅ, ์ผ์ฒฉ, ๊ฟ(๋๋ ๋ฌผ์ฟ), ๊ฐ์ฅ, ๋ง๋, ์ฐธ๊ธฐ๋ฆ์ ๋ฃ์ต๋๋ค. - Heat on low until thick and glossy.
Simmer over low heat for 3โ4 minutes, stirring constantly, until glossy and slightly thickened.
์ฝ๋ถ์์ 3~4๋ถ๊ฐ ์ ์ด๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋์ด๋ค๊ฐ ์ค๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋๋ฉด ๋ถ์ ๋๋๋ค.
(This creates a sweet-spicy gochujang glaze.)
๋ฌ์ฝคํ๊ณ ์ด์ง ๋งค์ฝคํ ์ฝํ ์์ค๊ฐ ์์ฑ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
๐ฅฃ Step 5. Toss and Finish 5๋จ๊ณ. ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ
- Add cooked chicken to a large bowl.
๊ตฌ์์ง ์นํจ์ ํฐ ๋ณผ์ ๋ด์ต๋๋ค. - Pour sauce and toss until evenly coated.
์๋ ์์ค๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ด ๊ณจ๊ณ ๋ฃจ ๋ฒ๋ฌด๋ฆฝ๋๋ค.
Each piece should be coated with a shiny red glaze.
๋ญ ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ์ค๊ธฐ ๋๋ ๋นจ๊ฐ ์ฝํ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฎ์ด๋ฉด ์์ฑ์ ๋๋ค. - Serve immediately.
Serve hot and enjoy! Sprinkle sesame seeds or crushed peanuts on top if desired.
๋ฐ๋ก ๋จน๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ง์์ด์. ๊ธฐํธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๊นจ๋ ๋ ์ฝฉ๊ฐ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ ค๋ ์ข์์.

๐ก Extra Notes / ์ถ๊ฐ ํ
Air fryer is great for small batches.
Oven is better for feeding the whole table.
์์ดํ๋ผ์ด์ด ๋ฒ์ ์ ์์ด ์ ์ ๋ ํธํ๊ณ
์ค๋ธ ๋ฒ์ ์ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ฉ์ผ๋ก ํ ๋ฒ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ ์ข์ต๋๋ค.
For mild kidsโ version: less gochujang, more ketchup and honey.
์์ค์ ๋งค์ด ์ ๋๋ ๊ณ ์ถ์ฅ ์์ผ๋ก ์กฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํฉ๋๋ค.
Leftover chicken can also be used the next day as a topping for toast, wraps, or salads.
๋จ์ ์นํจ์ ๋ค์ ๋ ํ ์คํธ/๋ฉ/์๋ฌ๋ ํ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฌ์ฉ ๊ฐ๋ฅํฉ๋๋ค.

Nothing beats crispy Korean fried chicken coated in sweet and spicy sauce.
Itโs comfort food that brings people together โ just like in K-dramas!
Make it at home, grab a cold drink, and enjoy your own little Korean night. ๐โจ