Description
The best recipe for juicy, flavorful Super Crispy Chicken Tenders made with chicken breasts and buttermilk. Plus oven and air fryer options!
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon hot sauce
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 2 cups flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 3/4 teaspoon course ground black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon paprika
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
- vegetable oil, for frying
Instructions
- Step 1: Cut the chicken breasts into four tenders each and soak them in a bowl with the buttermilk and hot sauce for 30 minutes.
- Step 2: Add the eggs to one bowl and the flour and spices to a second bowl.
- Step 3: Dip each piece of chicken from the buttermilk bowl to the flour mixture.
- Step 4: Dip it into the eggs then back into the flour mixture.
- Step 5: Shake excess flour gently off and put the chicken onto a baking sheet.
- Step 6: Repeat with all the pieces.
- Step 7: Heat the oil (three inches deep) in a Dutch oven on medium-high heat to 350 degrees.
- Step 8: Fry the chicken in small batches for 5-7 minutes or until golden brown.
Notes
1 serving is 4 chicken tenders.
- Prep Time: 40 minutes
- Cook Time: 21 minutes
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Deep Frying
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4 chicken tenders
- Calories: 431 kcal
- Sugar: 3 g
- Sodium: 1724 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5 g
- Trans Fat: 0.02 g
- Carbohydrates: 51 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 36 g
- Cholesterol: 172 mg
Keywords: crispy chicken tenders, buttermilk chicken, fried chicken, American dinner