Homemade Chinese Chicken Wings Calories are so high, WHY?!?

FemmeAndi

This is my favourite meal of all time but yesterday I was dissappointed to see when I entered it in my food diary, that for only 4 measely wings that it was 360 calories... for 4 and 1/2 it's 405 cals!! I don't eat the fatty tissue (eww) and the meat that I get off these wings are a small amount. The wings I use are not the seperated ones, they are not torn apart yet, so should I be counting these wings as 2 instead of 1? (If so i will have to change my 4 wings to 8 and it will have been a 720 call supper minus the 1/2 cup rice i had) I was still super hungry after 1 and 1/2 hours of eating my supper and had to eat afterwards. So what I am wondering is.....how should I count these blasted little wings? And are they really that high in calories. Like, mine are homemade, I have the recipe below. The sauce is watery and doesn't really stick to the wings so I don't think I'm eating a lot of the sauce they are baked in.

Recipe:
1/3 cup soya sauce
1/2 cup butter (i don't put as much)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 tsp dry mustard
1/4 cup water
Bring to boil and pour over chicken wings and put in oven for 1.5 hours at 350.

AngelaPowPowPOW

Use Splenda brown sugar. Soy sauce is all salt, too, so watch that.

xNightguestx

Could be the butter and sugar, I try to avoid butter completely because I was shocked to see how bad it is, even the lighter and unsalted ones.

dcmat

You are adding over 400 cals in the sugar alone!

rkdesmond

A lot of the calories and fat are in the wings themselves. Try subbing boneless skinless breasts or chicken tenders. That should help!

sharonfincher1

This is really just a guess, but could it be because wings are more skin than anything... almost as much skin as meat.

freerange

Reality check time here, Butter and Sugar, well yes it’s going to be high in calories. BUT if you are pouring this over your wings you are not getting all the calories, so you may be actually eating less calories than it says. Do this, figure the calories for the wings by themselves, then for the sauce, when you pour the sauce over the wings capture the run off, and measure it, this will give you a better idea of how much you are actually eating.

FabCheeky

Here is a way to make this better for your heart/body and make it less watery.
Recipe:
1/3 cup coconut aminos
1/2 cup extra virgin coconut oil or extra virgin first cold pressing olive oil or ghee
1/2 cup honey
1/4 tsp dry mustard
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (optional---for kick)

Bring to boil and pour over chicken wings and put in oven for 1.5 hours at 350.

FemmeAndi

Reality check time here, Butter and Sugar, well yes it’s going to be high in calories. BUT if you are pouring this over your wings you are not getting all the calories, so you may be actually eating less calories than it says. Do this, figure the calories for the wings by themselves, then for the sauce, when you pour the sauce over the wings capture the run off, and measure it, this will give you a better idea of how much you are actually eating.

Yah I don't eat the sauce, it's just there to marinate the wings for taste, I take the wings outta the sauce when I put them on my plate and all the sauce is left in the pan and gets thrown out afterwards

FemmeAndi

This is really just a guess, but could it be because wings are more skin than anything... almost as much skin as meat.

can i minus some calories because i don't eat any of the skin or fatty tissue, i peel it off and only eat the meat and it really isn't that much meat on them. after i have all the fatty skin tissue peeled off and discarded to the side of my plate there's not much left of the wing haha

freerange

Here is a way to make this better for your heart/body and make it less watery.
Recipe:
1/3 cup coconut aminos
1/2 cup extra virgin coconut oil or extra virgin first cold pressing olive oil or ghee
1/2 cup honey
1/4 tsp dry mustard
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (optional---for kick)

Bring to boil and pour over chicken wings and put in oven for 1.5 hours at 350.

Yum O I will have to try this one.

FabCheeky

Here is a way to make this better for your heart/body and make it less watery.
Recipe:
1/3 cup coconut aminos
1/2 cup extra virgin coconut oil or extra virgin first cold pressing olive oil or ghee
1/2 cup honey
1/4 tsp dry mustard
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (optional---for kick)

Bring to boil and pour over chicken wings and put in oven for 1.5 hours at 350.

Yum O I will have to try this one.

If you've been paleo for a while, 1/2 cup of honey might be too sweet. Try it at 1/4 and bump up as needed.