An easy recipe for a tender and tasty spiced-up chicken strips that are healthy too. Great for that party or just dinner. Another 30-minute recipe.
I used chicken tenders but just cut some skinless boneless chicken breasts into strips if you want.
After reading 20 recipes, I decided to start with my own recipe for Spicy Oven Fried Chicken. It worked just fine.
Rating
Really good. You can cook up as much as you want for a party or a few for a meal.
Notes: As written, the recipe is about a 6/10 hot. I did increase the cayenne by a 1/4 tsp. And it was a strong 8/10. If your cooking for kiddies or the heat adverse, eliminate the cayenne. To keep the fat down, I used two egg whites, but you could use one egg with the yoke. Finally, in the original recipe, the coating can be a little dry. I gave them a light spray with PAM… problem solved.
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Preheat oven to 400 convection. Prep a baking tray by lining with aluminum foil, fit with a rack and spray with PAM.
Trim 1 1/2 pounds of chicken tenders. Or trim and slice 2 skinless boneless chicken breasts into 1/2 inch thick strips.Pat dry the chicken. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP.
Create a dredge line with 1/4 cup flour in tray #1, 2 egg whites or one egg wiped with 1 T water in tray #2, and 1/4 cup flour, 1/4 cup Panko bread crumbs, 1 t paprika, 1/2 t garlic powder, 1/2 t each salt and pepper and lastly 1/4 t cayenne pepper (adjust for taste). Roll the chicken in tray one and shake dry.
Dip in the egg wash and shake off excess.
Roll in the final tray
Place on prepared tray. Give them a light spray of PAM.
Cook until 165 in thickest part. 18-20 minutes.
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Spicy Baked Chicken Strips
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds Chicken tenders - or Skinless breasts cut into strips
- 2 egg whites - or 1 whole egg
- 1/2 cup AP flour
- 1/4 cup Panko bread crumbs
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- Pam
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 convection. Prep a baking tray by lining with aluminum foil, fit with a rack and spray with PAM.
- Trim 1 1/2 pounds of chicken tenders. Or trim and slice two skinless boneless chicken breasts into 1/2 inch thick strips.Pat dry the chicken. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP.
- Create a dredge line with 1/4 cup flour in tray #1, 2 egg whites or one egg wiped with 1 T water in tray #2, and 1/4 cup flour, 1/4 cup Panko bread crumbs, 1 t paprika, 1/2 t garlic powder, 1/2 t each salt and pepper and lastly 1/4 t cayenne pepper (adjust for taste).
- Roll the chicken in tray one and shake dry.
- Dip in the egg wash and shake off excess.6) Roll in the final tray
- Place on prepared tray. Give them a light spray of PAM.
- Cook until 165 in thickest part. 18-20 minutes.
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If you like this recipe or find it useful, the pleasure of a nice 4 or 5 rating would be greatly appreciated.
Nutrition is for one serving. Number of servings is stated above and is my estimate of normal serving size for this recipe.
All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
Jae King
Tried this recipe today!! Excellent for hungry growing kids!!! We loved it!
DrDan
Hi Jae,
Welcome to the blog.
Gale it works well for you. I do love the touch of spice in this recipe.
Thanks for the note.
Dan
plasterers bristol
Looks and sounds delicious. Love spicy chicken. Thanks for sharing.
simon
Jordan Ball
I made this tanight for Valentine’s day an my girlfriend an i loved it thanks for makin me look good an like i knew what i was doing im really no cook but it was really easy an tasted great!
Jordan Ball
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Unknown
Great recipe! I made it this week and the adults and kids all loved it (the only thing I did was reduce the cayenne to about 1/8 tsp to make it kid friendly. Thanks for the post!
Linda www.mykindofcooking.com
I found your blog thanks to Pam. I love recipe with a little spice to it and this one sounds perfect for my family. I signed up to follow your blog and can’t wait to see your other recipes!
Pam
They look great and I’ll be trying this! I have an award for you over on my blog today!
Inspired by eRecipeCards
Baked instead of fried… terrific recipe (especially when pondering super bowl snacks. now to work on the dips for these ;)
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Dave
Chris
I bet this would be also good with chipotle pepper for a smoky version. Or cut into nuggets. Trevor loves chicken nuggets but refuses to eat them anymore after seeing how they were made commercially.