Air Fryer Pickle Juice Wings

These Air Fryer Pickle Juice Wings are tangy, lightly sweet, and perfectly seasoned with layers of flavor from pickle brine, Italian dressing, and a blend of spices. They cook up crispy on the outside and juicy inside, with oven and grill options included so you can make them any time of year.

If you’ve been around here a minute, you already know I love a good wing night and I love preparing them in the air fryer. These Air Fryer Pickle Juice Wings are one of my new favorites!

They’re tangy from a splash of pickle juice, lightly spicy from hot sauce, and seasoned all the way through. The Italian dressing trick gives them that glossy, golden finish that tastes like you fussed - even though you didn’t.

Although I ran mine through the air fryer, I’ve included oven‑baked and grilled versions too, so you can make them year‑round. However you cook them, they come out juicy inside, crispy outside, and absolutely addictive.

Fresh chicken wings, tossed with lemon, seasonings and herbs and air fried.

Air Fryer Lemon Herb Chicken Wings

I love the combination of lemon and herbs with chicken, certainly one of my top favorites for a roasted chicken, so I thought, why not wings?

Afterall, as I write this it's football season and wings are just another football staple now, aren't they?

And let me tell you that if you haven't tried wings in your air fryer you are missing out!

Spicy Honey Teriyaki Barbecue Wings

Chicken wings, lightly dusted with seasoned salt, pepper and paprika, brushed with a spicy honey teriyaki marinade and baked.

Spicy Honey Teriyaki Barbecue Wings

The Cajun and I eat wings often and not just because there's a football game or party going on, although both of those times are common for sure! Our local Winn Dixie even has a great wing bar and we've visited that for a bucket of wings a few times.

As to my own recipes, you'll sometimes see that when I share a recipe for wings, the whole wing is in play and I've not separated my wings into drums and flats at all. I mean, it's just the two of us most of the time and frankly that's just another step.

Air Fryer Naked Chicken Wings

Chicken wings generously seasoned and air fried naked. Saucing optional!

Air Fryer Naked Chicken Wings

I love wings. Love them!

They are one of our top favorite foods for football gatherings, movie watching or really anytime snacking.

I used to do them most of the time in the oven and still do occasionally but they are ideal and so easy in the air fryer.

Now... first a disclosure because it's important and it matters.

Chicken wings, air fried naked, then tossed in a lemon pepper sauce and finished in the air fryer. 

Air Fryer Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings

Wings. I love, love, love them as football food. Or, anytime food really. The Cajun and I eat them all the time and you can find my collection of recipes by tapping or clicking right here.

Whether you grill, smoke or bake them, they are an excellent addition for any gathering, whether it's a party of many or a party of two. I was really astonished how easy and good they are in the air fryer too!

Chicken wings, baked in a barbecue sauce, infused with onion, garlic and pepper jelly, that provides that sweet heat we all love here in the Deep South!

Pepper Jelly Barbecue Wings

Here's another one for the wing collection! 

We eat a lot of chicken around here and wings are an all time favorite cut for me. In fact, as white meat goes, I prefer them over chicken breasts, and the flats section of the wing are my favorite over the drumettes. The Cajun will eat either, so you can bet that I make sure that I pick out the flats I want first!

Chicken wings with a zing! Meaty chicken wings, coated with a lightly spicy rub and marinated in the fridge for an hour or up to overnight, baked and tossed with a simple, classic buttery hot sauce or tossed in a wing glaze.

Deviled Chicken Wings

I love chicken wings! I'm constantly playing around with them, trying different seasonings and different cooking methods - baked, air fried, smoked, grilled, slow cooker, and yes, even in one of those microwave Rangemate grills! {affil link} Each of them provides a little different feel and texture and benefits, but I've yet to run across a wing I didn't like.

 

Smothered chicken cooked in a roux with baby lima beans, pictured here with creamed brussels sprouts.

Chicken and Butter Beans

I have been busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs y'all!!

We have the grandkids everyday now after school - which I love, love, love, don't get me wrong. Since our move to be closer to them six months ago, we have seen and spent more time with them from since they were born. It isn't that we were all that far away from them to begin with, but where we did live was off the beaten path and far enough away to be inconvenient for everybody.

It does leave me with a small window of time in the mornings to get everything done though, and believe me, it goes by quick! I suppose that some of you moms know exactly what I mean.

Oven Baked Louisiana Hot Wings

Oven baked hot wings made with a buttery Louisiana hot sauce and garnished with sliced green onion and chopped jalapenos.

Oven Baked Louisiana Hot Wings

This hot wing recipe came about when I happened to have a couple pounds of wings to use but wanted to do something different.

I remembered back around St. Patrick's Day flipping through my copy of Food Network Magazine and seeing a St. Patrick's Day wing recipe. I know ... Wings? St. Patrick's Day?

Not exactly associated with one another in my opinion, but in my opinion, wings are great anytime, and though their wings were done with a green hot sauce for the upcoming holiday, I thought why can't I do a hot wing in the oven with regular ole Louisiana hot sauce? This was the result!

Chicken wings, dipped in a butter and garlic sauce and rolled in seasoned Parmesan cheese.

Garlic Parmesan Wings

This recipe for Baked Garlic Parmesan Wings was one that, waaaay back in my low carb days of eating (oh, yes I did), we LCers used to eat a lot.

They were considered addictive, so much so that they were actually known as heroin wings back then. Today, I guess that would be "crack" wings - although to update, there's actually a new TikTok viral wing recipe called Crack Wings - though that's a slightly different recipe, fried, but not low carb.

Yes. I know. I strongly dislike that crack reference to anything food, but that, my friends, was what they were called. It is what it is in this world we live in.

I think I'll stick with calling mine Garlic Parmesan Wings, though I did update the recipe printable to include the toppings used in the new viral wings.

Crispy Southern Fried Hot Wings with Spicy Dipping Sauce

Chicken wings, marinated in a highly seasoned dry rub marinade, dredged in a seasoned egg wash and deep fried for crispy, crunchy, spicy goodness.

Crispy Southern Fried Hot Wings

I love wings. Any kind!

Adding to the repertoire of my wing collection here on Deep South Dish are these Crispy Southern Fried Hot Wings to add to your party fare!

If you don't have a deep fryer (#ad), make do with a deep pot filled with oil, or try them in your air fryer! While you can certainly shallow fry them, deep frying cooks them quickly and with much less absorption of oil

Chicken Wing Collection

I do love some wings and I don't need a reason to whip up a batch. I make them anytime! Here's my collection of favorite wing recipes, all from Deep South Dish blog, all in one place.

Chicken Wings

Air Fryer Pickle Juice Wings

Tangy, lightly sweet, and perfectly seasoned with layers of flavor from pickle brine, Italian dressing, and a blend of spices.

Air Fryer Lemon Herb Wings

Fresh chicken wings, tossed with lemon, seasonings and herbs and air fried.

Spicy Honey Teriyaki Barbecue Wings

Chicken wings, lightly dusted with seasoned salt, pepper and paprika, brushed with a spicy honey teriyaki marinade and baked.

Air Fryer Naked Chicken Wings

Chicken wings generously seasoned and air fried naked. Saucing optional!

Lemon Pepper Wings

Chicken wings, air fried naked, then tossed in a lemon pepper sauce and finished in the air fryer. 

Pepper Jelly Barbecue Wings

Chicken wings, baked in a barbecue sauce, infused with onion, garlic and pepper jelly, that provides that sweet heat we all love here in the Deep South! 

 

Deviled Wings

Chicken wings with a zing! Meaty chicken wings, coated with a lightly spicy rub and marinated in the fridge for an hour or up to overnight, baked and tossed with a simple, classic buttery hot sauce or tossed in a wing glaze.