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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
Cheddar Bacon Chicken Tenders
Cheddar Bacon Chicken Tenders are easy to make, full of incredible flavor, and perfect for the whole family!
Author: Stacey
Recipe type: main
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
How much onion salt/garlic salt should I use?
That’s to taste, just sprinkle on all sides of the tenders.
These 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!
Thanks Steph!
Looks awesome going to make them tonight for dinner
Thanks Mike! I hope you liked them. 🙂
We 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!
I’m so glad to hear they were a hit!
Made this last night and we all loved it!! Thank you!
Thanks Kendra!
Do you make the sour cream ranch dip or is his something I can buy in the store?
You can usually buy it in the grocery store near the sour cream.
What brand is it? I haven’t been able to find it.
Would this recipe work on a plain baking sheet? I don’t have a roasting grill pan.
If you have a wire cooling rack you can place that on a baking sheet and cook it on that.
THanks, 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?
The 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.
I made these tonight. Will make it again!! Great flavor, but a little too crunchy for my kid. It got too golden brown.
Any suggestion on how I could make a big batch of these before hand and freeze them