Get your Super Bowl party (or other gathering…) started with this flavorful recipe for Chinese Chicken Wingettes – from our friends over at Woman’s Day. Perfect for munching as you cheer for your favorite team. Who are you rooting for – Colts or Saints?

Active Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup hoisin sauce
2 Tbsp reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 1/2 Tbsp each toasted sesame oil and cider vinegar
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tbsp grated peeled fresh ginger
1/2 tsp hot pepper sauce
2 pkgs (1 3/4 lb each) chicken wingettes
Garnish: sesame seeds, sliced scallion

PREPARATION
1. Whisk all but chicken and garnish in a bowl. Spoon 3 Tbsp into a cup; cover and refrigerate. Use as a finishing glaze.

2. Pour remaining mixture into a large ziptop bag; add chicken. Turn to coat pieces. Refrigerate overnight.

3. Heat oven to 400°F. Line broiler pan bottom with foil; coat broiler pan rack with nonstick spray. Arrange wingettes on pan rack. Bake 40 to 45 minutes, turning chicken once, until tender.

4. Heat broiler. Brush wings with finishing glaze. Broil 6 in. from heat source until crispy and glazed, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a platter. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and scallions.

Plan Ahead: You can make through Step 3 up to 2 days ahead and refrigerate. Bring to room temperature before glazing under the broiler.

Nutrition Facts
Yield: 12 wingettes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 173
Total Fat 12g
Saturated Fat 3g
Cholesterol 55mg

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What happens when appetizers at America’s top sports bar chains face off calorie to calorie… and fat gram to fat gram? FatFighterTV digs in to see which game day grub scores the most unhealthy penalties.

First up – the calorie champ:

1. Champps Americana: Champps’ Mile High Nachos w/Chicken scored 3600 calories and 224 grams of fat – Even I’m guilty of indulging in these, and I only shared them with one other person. I didn’t know they had as many calories as seven Quarter Pounders with Cheese. Yikes! Next time, I’ll invite more people!

FatFighterTV asked a Champps Americana spokesperson to comment on the Nachos’ first place ranking. “Our Nachos are an ideal item to share with 6-7 friends (easily),” says Rachel Phillips-Luther, Vice President- Marketing. “When you consider sharing that item with several friends, the calorie content per person is much more reasonable.”

*Second and third place high calorie honors both go to wings at The Greene Turtle:

2. The Greene Turtle: Smoky BBQ Boneless Wings – 25 of ‘em with Bleu Cheese dressing have 3180 calories and 199 grams of fat. They may be boneless, but they’re still fried, and it shows in the huge amount of fat and calories.

3. The Greene Turtle: Smoky BBQ Chicken Wings – 25 wings with Bleu Cheese dressing have 2984 calories and 211 fat grams – as much fat as what you get in seven Big Macs. Seriously.

4. Buffalo Wild Wings: Parmesan Garlic Boneless Wings – 24 with Bleu Cheese dressing have 2872 calories and 222 grams of fat. Watch out if you’re winging it bone-free. The boneless wings rack up more calories than the traditional ones at both The Greene Turtle and BW3.

5. The Greene Turtle: Southern Chicken Sliders with Crab Imperial – Get the Double Play (2 four-packs) and you’ll get 2730 calories and 98 grams of fat. Eat too many of these fried chicken sliders and you may not be able to slide into your jeans!

6. Buffalo Wild Wings: Parmesan Garlic Wings – 24 with Bleu Cheese dressing add up to 2488 calories and 198 grams of fat. What? Wings made it on this list again???!

7. Ram Restaurant & Brewery: Ram Favorites Platter – 2464 calories, 48 grams of saturated fat. Potato Skins, Mozzarella Sticks, Mini Cheese Quesadilla, Calamari and Buffalo Tenders with a variety of sauces. Even if you share this sampler with a friend, you’re still getting a day and a half’s worth of saturated fat, based on recommendations from the American Heart Association.

8. Champps’ Sampler Platter – 2072 calories, 121 grams of fat. Mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers, potato skins and Buffalo wings served with a variety of sauces. As fried as it gets.

9. Ram Restaurant & Brewery: BBQ Chicken Quesadilla – 2066 calories, 54 grams of saturated fat. You’d have to run at a pace of six MPH for two hours just to burn off the calories from this mega meal. (based on someone who weighs 140 pounds)

10. Fox and Hound Pub & Grille: Grand Champion Wings/Hot Sauce - 1960 calories, 164 grams of fat – What’s up with all the wings on this list? Someone cry fowl!

Doing this research got me thinking – Why is it that we like to eat this kind of food when we watch sports, anyway? And while it’s nice to share appetizers, knowing that you’re going to share can make it more tempting to order more than one. Think of all the fat and calories you’re adding when you do that.

Oh, and while we were at it, FatFighterTV also compiled a list of the 10 Football Not-As-Fatties – appetizers with the fewest calories from the same sports bar chains, just in case you would rather order the lesser evils.

*Calories for an order of 25 boneless wings with bleu cheese dressing at The Greene Turtle range from 2649-3180, depending on the sauce. For the traditional wings, they range from 2452-2984.

Information Unknown
FatFighterTV contacted two other top sports bars. Damon’s Grill told us its nutrition information was not yet available but “please know we have placed this on our marketing plan as a high priority for our current fiscal year.”

Not Playing Ball
ESPN Zone said, “Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with accurate nutritional information about our menu items. Much of that information depends on the condiments that we liberally add, along with the accompaniments that guests select.” Hmmm… the other sports bars use condiments and they didn’t have a problem coming up with the information.

How we did it
FatFighterTV determined the top sports bar chains based on information from Restaurants & Institutions’ 2009 Casual Dining rankings based on food and beverage sales. The nutrition information for both The Greene Turtle and Champps Americana was available online at each restaurant’s website. We contacted the other three sports bars as an average customer to see how quickly we could get the information. All of them – Fox and Hound Pub & Grille, Ram Restaurant & Brewery, and Buffalo Wild Wings – responded promptly. This report is based only on information available at the time of publication. Menus may vary by location.

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While wings made up half the list of FatFighterTV’s 10 Football Fatties report, a surprising lesser evil showed up multiple times on our Not-As-Fatties compilation – tortilla chips. It’s all relative, right? Here now are the 10 appetizers we found with the fewest calories at America’s top sports bar chains.

1. Buffalo Wild Wings: Naked Tenders - 260 calories, 12 g fat
Six grilled chicken tenders served with BWW sauce.

2. The Greene Turtle: Chips and Salsa – 300 calories, 7g fat

3. Buffalo Wild Wings: Roasted Garlic Mushrooms – 360 calories, 18g fat
Breaded and fried, served with Ranch or Southwestern Ranch dressing.

4. Fox and Hound Pub & Grille: Fried Cheese – 472 calories, 18g fat

5. Fox and Hound Pub & Grille: Calamari – 474 calories, 12g fat

6. Fox and Hound Pub & Grille: Chips & Salsa – 490 calories, 11g fat

7. Buffalo Wild Wings: Chips & Salsa – 500 calories, 30g fat

8. The Greene Turtle: Chips and Queso – 515 calories, 24g fat

9. The Greene Turtle: Buffalo Chicken Dip w/celery sticks and tortilla chips – 560 calories, 26g fat
Chunks of chicken breast in a creamy Buffalo-flavored dip, topped with melted crumbled bleu cheese.

10. Ram Restaurant & Brewery: Coconut Prawns – 584 calories, 10g sat fat
Gulf prawns dipped in coconut cream, rolled in bread crumbs and shaved coconut. Served with coconut-plum sauce

I’m curious, which appetizers would you most likely order at a sports bar? Would they be items from this list or would you prefer the ones in the 10 Football Fatties report? Or would you look for a healthy option somewhere else on the menu?

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