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Cheddar Bacon Chicken Tenders are AMAZING! We love anything and everything with bacon and cheese and from now on, when a chicken nugget craving hits, I will make these for dinner! They are full of incredible flavor, very filling, and take chicken tenders to a whole new level! My husband and I dipped them in sour cream ranch and it was awesome! Cheddar Bacon Chicken Tenders are super tasty and perfect for the whole family!
recipe modified from Betty Crocker
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- garlic salt to taste
- onion salt to taste
- pepper
- 1/2 cup plain panko bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup finely shredded cheddar jack cheese
- 3 oz cooked real bacon crumbles
- 1 package 14 oz uncooked chicken tenders (not breaded)
- optional-sour cream ranch dip
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400°F
- Spray roasting grill pan with cooking spray
- Season each chicken tender with garlic salt, onion salt, and pepper
- In shallow bowl, beat egg
- In large bowl, place bread crumbs, cheese, bacon, and additional garlic salt, onion salt, and pepper
- Dip chicken into egg
- Press each chicken tender in the bread crumb mixture and coat the entire tender
- Place chicken tenders on sprayed roasting grill pan
- Spray the tops of the chicken tenders with cooking spray
- Bake 15 to 20 minutes, until chicken is no longer pink in center and bread crumbs are golden brown
- Optional-serve with sour cream ranch dip
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Rachel says
January 24, 2014 at 1:35 pmHow much onion salt/garlic salt should I use?
Aubrey Cota says
May 16, 2014 at 9:13 pmThat’s to taste, just sprinkle on all sides of the tenders.
Steph says
February 5, 2014 at 8:25 amThese sound just wonderful!!! I will sub grated parmesan cheese for breadcrumbs because I can’t have them…but I can’t wait to experience this flavor!
Aubrey says
February 10, 2014 at 1:19 pmThanks Steph!
Mike says
March 31, 2014 at 11:19 amLooks awesome going to make them tonight for dinner
Aubrey says
April 2, 2014 at 9:40 amThanks Mike! I hope you liked them. 🙂
Stacy says
April 15, 2014 at 8:07 pmWe just made these tonight and they were epic! We just used garlic powder, onion power and salt and pepper because we didn’t have the other stuff, and I used regular bread crumbs because we didn’t have panko. We had to increase the temp to 450 because we used breast halfs instead of tenders. They were fantastic! Thanks for the great recipe!
Aubrey Cota says
May 16, 2014 at 5:58 pmI’m so glad to hear they were a hit!
Kendra says
April 23, 2014 at 9:17 amMade this last night and we all loved it!! Thank you!
Aubrey Cota says
May 16, 2014 at 5:43 pmThanks Kendra!
Sara says
April 28, 2014 at 12:55 pmDo you make the sour cream ranch dip or is his something I can buy in the store?
Aubrey Cota says
May 16, 2014 at 5:05 pmYou can usually buy it in the grocery store near the sour cream.
Marla says
May 16, 2014 at 5:44 pmWhat brand is it? I haven’t been able to find it.
Marla says
May 14, 2014 at 8:26 amWould this recipe work on a plain baking sheet? I don’t have a roasting grill pan.
Aubrey Cota says
May 16, 2014 at 4:01 pmIf you have a wire cooling rack you can place that on a baking sheet and cook it on that.
Tracy says
October 22, 2014 at 10:25 amTHanks, that was my question, and just what is a roasting grill pan? Is it the one that comes with the oven that goes in the broiler?
Cathy says
September 15, 2014 at 3:12 pmThe bacon and cheddar sound yummy! I make a similar dish, using ranch dressing in place of the egg and I add parmesan to the panko. I can’t wait to try it your way. Thanks for the recipe.
Rosa says
December 1, 2014 at 7:52 pmI made these tonight. Will make it again!! Great flavor, but a little too crunchy for my kid. It got too golden brown.
Becky says
April 13, 2015 at 8:34 amAny suggestion on how I could make a big batch of these before hand and freeze them
Diane says
October 14, 2015 at 1:08 pmAre the chicken tenders found in frozen food? Or fresh?
Julie K says
October 23, 2015 at 1:14 pmThe chicknen is not frozen and is raw.