American
Crispy Baked Chicken Tenders
Crispy Baked Chicken Tenders is American home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb chicken breast tenders
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups panko breadcrumbs
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp paprika
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 3 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Soak the chicken tenders in the buttermilk for 15 minutes, then heat the oven to 425F.
- Toss the panko with the olive oil, paprika, garlic powder, salt, and pepper until evenly moistened.
- Set up a breading station with the flour, the beaten eggs, and the seasoned panko.
- Dredge each tender in flour, then egg, then press into the panko.
- Arrange on a rack set over a sheet pan and bake until golden and cooked through, about 20 minutes.
- Stir the honey and Dijon together and serve as a dip alongside the tenders.
Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Crispy Baked Chicken Tenders, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Crispy Baked Chicken Tenders carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Gluten | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Almond Vanilla Chia Pudding |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, and Egg
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Crispy Baked Chicken Tenders takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken and panko.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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