Level up your chicken with these Honey Garlic Chicken Tenders. Crispy oven baked chicken tenders tossed in a homemade honey garlic sauce for an absolute game changing flavour! Serve them up with your favourite Fried Rice for a great family dinner!
Okay, you really need to add these to your dinner plan soon! They are downright delicious and won’t last long. I love Chicken Tender Recipes and am always looking for new ways to make them a little different. And let me tell you, this recipe did not disappoint at all!
What Are These Chicken Tenders Like
- Difficulty – This is a two part recipe, the tenders and the sauce. But they are really easy to make and you can prep the chicken and sauce up to 24 hours before cooking.
- Taste – These are perfectly tender with a crisp coating and the sauce is sweet and a little spicy.
- Serving – This recipe will serve about 4 people. In the recipe card at the end of the post you can easily adjust the serving size.
Ingredients
- Chicken – For this recipe I used chicken tenders.
- Milk – I used whole milk to coat the chicken tenders.
- Bread crumbs – I used fine bread crumbs to coat the chicken tenders.
- Seasonings – Table salt and black pepper
- Olive oil – I greased the baking tray with a little olive oil so the chicken tenders didn’t stick.
- Sauce – I made a homemade honey garlic sauce using olive oil, garlic, chilli flaked, white wine vinegar, soy sauce, honey, water and cornflour.
NOTE, The full recipe and instructions can be found at the end of the post in the recipe card.
Instructions
- Preheat oven – Preheat oven to 375 degrees F/190 degrees C. Grease a large baking tray with olive oil and set aside.
- Prepare chicken tenders – Pour the milk into a large shallow bowl and add the chicken tenders. On a large plate combine the bread crumbs with the salt and pepper, whisk to combine. Dredge the chicken tenders in the seasoned bread crumbs. Press firmly so they stick to the chicken.
- Bake chicken tenders – Place the chicken tenders on the greased baking tray and bake between 20 – 25 minutes until they are fully cooked. Remove from oven.
- Make sauce – While the chicken is cooking, make the sauce. In a small saucepan set over medium heat, add the olive oil, garlic and chillies. Stir well until fragrant, about one minute. Add the vinegar, soy sauce, honey and water (reserving 1 tablespoon of the water). Stir well and bring to a simmer.
- Thicken the sauce – Combine the cornflour and remaining tablespoon water and stir to combine. Pour the mixture into the simmering sauce and stir until it thickens. Remove the sauce from heat.
- Combine sauce with chicken tenders – Pour the sauce over the chicken tenders and make sure they are completely coated. Serve hot!
Recipe Tips
- Keep the temperature set to low-medium when making the Honey Garlic Sauce – You don’t want the sauce to cook at a high temperature or will may get a burned taste.
- Serve sauce on the side if you prefer – If you prefer to have a crisp chicken tender, you can serve the dipping sauce on the side.
Substitutions
- Bread crumbs – I used fine bread crumbs but any other kind of bread crumbs would work well. Panko bread crumbs would be a great substitution.
- Chicken tenders – This recipe will also work with chicken cutlets or chicken breast cut into strips.
- Cooking method – You can shallow fry these in vegetable oil or even cook them in an air fryer.
Serving
Try a few of these tasty Side Dishes to finish off you meal perfectly!
- Beer Battered Onion Rings
- Garlic Butter Roasted potatoes
- Spiced Roasted Potatoes
- Garlic Sauteed Green Beans
- Honey Garlic Butter Drizzled Carrots
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, most chicken tender recipes can be prepared about 24 hours in advance. However, be careful if the marinade contains a lot of acid like lemon or lime juice. These will break down the fibres in the chicken and should only be marinated for a few hours.
Yes, you can cook chicken tenders in the slow cooker. In fact like the Slow Cooker Chicken Taquitos, the slow cooker is a great way to cook chicken tenders. Because chicken tenders are so small, they should only take about four hours in the slow cooker.
No, chicken tenders and chicken strips are not the same. Chicken tenders are the entire chicken tenderloin. Chicken strips are pieces of chicken cut from the chicken breast.
As easy as chicken is to cook, it’s also really easy to over cook chicken and then it becomes really dry. Chicken is cooked perfectly at 165 degrees F/74 degrees C. The best way to tell is to use a meat thermometer. Just insert it into the chicken temperature and you will clearly see the internal temperature of the chicken.
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Ingredients
- 1 lb chicken tenders
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
For the sauce
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 tablespoon cornflour
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F/190 degrees C. Grease a large baking tray with olive oil and set aside.
- Pour the milk into a large shallow bowl and add the chicken tenders. On a large plate combine the bread crumbs with the salt and pepper, whisk to combine. Dredge the chicken tenders in the seasoned bread crumbs. Press firmly so they stick to the chicken.
- Place the chicken tenders on the greased baking tray and bake between 20 – 25 minutes until they are fully cooked. Remove from oven.
- While the chicken is cooking, make the sauce. In a small saucepan set over medium heat, add the olive oil, garlic and chillies. Stir well until fragrant, about one minute. Add the vinegar, soy sauce, honey and water (reserving 1 tablespoon of the water). Stir well and bring to a simmer.
- Combine the cornflour and remaining tablespoon water and stir to combine. Pour the mixture into the simmering sauce and stir until it thickens. Remove the sauce from heat.
- Pour the sauce over the chicken tenders and make sure they are completely coated. Serve hot!
*A note on times provided: appliances vary, any prep and/or cook times provided are estimates only.
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