Healthy Baked Chicken Tenders recipe. The best way to cook chicken tenderloins (aka chicken strips) is in the oven. They get so crispy and tasty. This Oven-baked chicken fingers recipe with parmesan cheese is the perfect quick meal for lunch or any weeknight dinner.
Are you looking for baked chicken tenderloin recipes? Try these healthy baked chicken tenders with parmesan and panko breadcrumbs.
What to Serve With
I served the crunchy chicken strips with homemade honey mustard dipping sauce. Insanely delicious, my kids really enjoy this recipe and even asked me to make more for lunch the next day!
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Who doesn’t love crispy fried chicken tenders? Chicken tenders are my favorite comfort food that always reminds me of my childhood. I still remember how I always begged my parents to buy some KFC fried chicken or KFC chicken tenders every weekend. Fried chicken is cheap, delicious and always comforting!
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If you love Fried chicken, you are not alone! Today, I am going to show you how to make a healthier version of fried chicken tenders. We are going to cook the chicken tenderloins in the oven. This oven-baked chicken tender recipe is made with simple ingredients and is very easy and quick to make.
Chicken Tenderloin:
For this recipe, I highly recommended using pre-cut chicken tenders. The pre-cut makes the cooking preparation so much easier and faster. However, if chicken breast is your only available option, feel free to use that.
Chicken tenderloin is white meat. It’s located on either side of the breastbone, under the breast meat.
How to Cut Chicken Breast into Chicken Strips:
To make chicken tenders from chicken breast, you just need to cut the chicken breast into long strips. Just be sure to cut the strips into the same size so they can cook evenly at the same time (about 1/2-inch strips)
Try this Delicious 5-Stars Rating Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce!
A Delicious Chicken Recipe with Easy Ingredients:
To make this chicken fillet recipe, you will need chicken tenders, grated Parmesan cheese, panko breadcrumbs, egg, all-purpose flour, oil, paprika, and a pinch of salt.
The Best Breadcrumbs for Crispier and Crunchier Food:
Panko is a Japanese breadcrumb. It’s traditionally used as a coating for deep-fried foods such as tempura or tonkatsu. Panko has a light, airy, and delicate texture that helps it crisp as it cooks. As a result, you will get crispier and crunchier food.
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I purchased the Panko breadcrumbs at my local Trader’s Joe for under $2 per 7oz bag. Please keep in mind that Panko is definitely not gluten-free.
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How to Make Oven-Baked Chicken Tenders:
To make these crispy chicken strips, you only need to follow these simple steps:
- Coating the chicken tenders with all-purpose flour.
- Dipping the chicken tenders into the egg-paprika mixture.
- Coating the chicken tenders with the panko-parmesan and oil breadcrumb.
- Lastly, you need to bake for about 8 minutes then flip the chicken and bake for another 8 minutes or more at 425F.
Have you tried this recipe? Be sure to come back here, rate the recipe card and let us know what you think about this chicken tenders recipe!
Healthy Baked Chicken Tenders
Ingredients
- 1 pound chicken tenders (about 6-7 medium pieces)
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 large egg (lightly beaten)
- ½ tsp smoked paprika powder
- 1 cup panko breadcrumb
- ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
- 3 tbsp olive oil
optional:
- ¼-½ tsp salt
- a pinch of pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°F
- In a large plate, place the flour. In a shallow dish, beat the egg, and season with paprika. In a third shallow dish, mix panko bread crumb, Parmesan cheese, olive oil and add the optional salt and pepper if needed.
- First, dry the chicken tenders with paper towels and coat the chicken tenders with the flour. Give a little shake to remove excess flour.
- Dip the chicken into the egg mixture. Then coat with bread crumbs and press down to adhere.
- Place all chicken tenders on a lightly greased baking sheet.
- Bake for about 8 minutes (less or more time depending on the thickness). Then turning the chicken tenders, continue cooking for 8 more minutes (less or more time depending on the thickness) or until the chicken is no longer pink or cooked through and the coating is golden brown.
- Serve with homemade honey mustard dipping sauce.
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Melissa Chapman
These chicken tenders look great and baking is better than frying and avoids all the oil. Who needs a restaurant if you can make such a scrumptious meal yourself
Alli Smith
Your baked chicken tenders look so good. I love cooking with panko bread crumbs and I know the grandkids will love this chicken and I love that it’s baked.
cait
my kids are a HUGE fan of chicken tenders so i def want to try and make these myself for my famiy! YUM!
Liz Mays
I definitely have to make some of these chicken strips as a fun, family-friendly dinner. The fact that they’re baked with panko instead of fried makes them a great option.
Amber Myers
These look so good! We will have to try them for dinner. We always love having chicken tenders.
Jeanette
If I can make healthier chicken tenders and have my kids with him I am all for it! I think I need to try this recipe with my kids.
Shannon Gurnee
This looks like a delicious recipe! I bet my family would be all over this recipe!
Christy G
Chicken tenders are my favorite and my kids love them too. We tend to eat more chicken than we do any other meat so I’m always looking for more recipes. I’m picky and don’t care for fried chicken or tenders. Baking them is so much healthier and if cooked at the correct temperature they don’t end up dry tasting. I love that you can even add additional spices or dipping sauce to change up these chicken tenders.
Agnes Dela Cruz
Chicken is very versatile when it comes to cooking. You can create simple and easy like this recipe to a more extravagant way of cooking.
HilLesha
My daughter loves chicken tenders, so I will have to save this recipe. Thank you for sharing it!
Chef Dennis
I’ve seen so many Chicken Recipes before but this one looks really delicious. Can’t wait to go to my kitchen and try this recipe!
Ruth I
This looks so good I think I can finish 20 of this. Best eaten when watching Netflix and chilling. This is my next project.
Sarah Bailey
Oh my goodness, these look incredible. What a great idea for a healthy look on chicken strippers, they look so much more tasty as well.
Cathy Mini
Aww this recipe really makes me hungry. I am looking forward to making this recipe, yummy!
Kathy
Those look so good. I have always wanted to make these myself before. Your recipe sounds so amazing. Can’t wait to try making them.
Brandy
We love our homemade chicken nuggets, but never thought to make some chicken tenders. I bet the kids, even my picky eater, will be drooling over these healthy baked chicken tenders. I’m going to try your recipe as soon as we have an actual home again!
Rena
These look delicious. My grandkids will love it and I can finally stop eating tacos on our Friday night “dates”! All I have to do is say it’s chicken cooked in cheese and they’ll eat it up lol! The toddler two food groups.
Pam Wattenbarger
I love baked chicken tenders. They don’t hurt my stomach like fried ones but are still delicious.
Bohemian Babushka
Those chicken tenders look divine and delicioso! Babushka has yet to try Panko Breadcrumbs. Now that The Grands are spending more time at Casa BB this might be the perfecto time and recipe to do so.