Our friend Emilee recently made these Sticky Buffalo Chicken Tenders and shared the recipe with us for you. While I don’t eat chicken anymore, her family loves this easy recipe she adapted from Creme de la Crumb. We switch up a few things to make this more Weight Watchers friendly. Her family loves this recipe and asks for it often, so I am sure your family will as well!
Sticky Buffalo Chicken Tenders
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Emilee says her family loves these because they already are in love with Wingers Sticky Fingers. Since I have never even heard of this restaurant before so wasn’t sure what to expect. After checking out the recipe she shared and seeing the pictures, I am pretty sure this one is going to be a favorite buffalo chicken tenders recipe for many!
Ingredients for Buffalo Chicken Tenders:
1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, pounded to 1/2″ thickness
1/4 cup flour
3 eggs
1 cup Italian Seasoned Panko breadcrumbs
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup Frank’s Red Hot Sauce
1/2 teaspoon Garlic Powder
3 tablespoons water
Directions for Buffalo Chicken Tenders:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees and spray a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray or line with silicone baking mats.
Cut boneless skinless chicken breasts into strips or chunks (we find chunks hold coating better).
Add the chicken into a large Ziploc bag that contains just the flour. Shake to coat.
Place Panko breadcrumbs into a shallow bowl. In another shallow bowl, whisk eggs until combined well.
Dip flour coated chicken into eggs, then into Panko breadcrumbs to coat.
Place coated chicken on the prepared baking sheet. Spray tops with non-stick cooking spray.
Bake for 15 minutes for nuggets or 20 minutes for strips or until chicken is browned and cooked through.
While chicken is in the oven, you will make your sauce mixture.
In a medium saucepan, bring the brown sugar, garlic powder, water and Frank’s red hot sauce to a boil. Remove from heat and stir well.
When chicken is cooked through, remove from the oven and toss with sauce. This will just coat the chicken.
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, pounded to ½" thickness
- ¼ cup flour
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup Italian Seasoned Panko breadcrumbs
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup Frank's Red Hot Sauce
- ½ teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 3 tablespoons water
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees and spray a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray or line with silicone baking mats.
- Cut boneless skinless chicken breasts into strips or chunks (we find chunks hold coating better).
- Add the chicken into a large Ziploc bag that contains just the flour. Shake to coat.
- Place Panko breadcrumbs into a shallow bowl. In another shallow bowl, whisk eggs until combined well.
- Dip flour coated chicken into eggs, then into Panko breadcrumbs to coat.
- Place coated chicken on the prepared baking sheet. Spray tops with non-stick cooking spray.
- Bake for 15 minutes for nuggets or 20 minutes for strips or until chicken is browned and cooked through.
- While chicken is in the oven, you will make your sauce mixture.
- In a medium saucepan, bring the brown sugar, garlic powder, water and Frank's red hot sauce to a boil. Remove from heat and stir well.
- When chicken is cooked through, remove from the oven and toss with sauce. This will just coat the chicken.
Makes 6 Servings
7 PointsPlus per Serving
8 SmartPoints per Serving on Beyond the Scale
5 SmartPoints per Serving on FreeStyle or FlexPlan
This recipe is a great hit with the whole family, and you could easily adapt the sauce to your preference on the heat. While we prefer Frank’s Red Hot Sauce, you can use any hot sauce or buffalo sauce for this recipe. We also recommend serving with a low-fat bleu cheese or a healthy ranch dip sauce. We love our Healthy Ranch Dip since it is only 1 SmartPoint per serving or Zero points on the Freestyle or Flex Plan.
Emilee served this with a side of macaroni and cheese, but you could easily add this to a nice side salad or any favorite side dish. The best part of this recipe is that you can make it work for your dietary needs! This sticky buffalo chicken tenders recipe is going to become a favorite for your family!
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More Chicken Recipes:
- Buffalo Chicken Pasta Recipe
- Instant Pot Italian Creamy Chicken Pasta Recipe
- Chicken and Bean Soup Instant Pot Recipe
- Chicken Taco Soup
- Instant Pot Roasted Chicken Breast and Vegetables
- BBQ Apricot Chicken Recipe
Tracy says
Made these tonight. Sooo good!
Sara Teichman says
We made these tonight. They are AMAZING!
Gloria says
How many would a serving be
Katie says
It depends on how you cut the chicken. It could be one tender or 4 depending on how you cut them. 1/4th of the recipe is a serving.
Linda says
Making these for our Super Bowl Party! Thanks!
Jordan M Taylor says
Made this tonight– only changes I made was using chicken tenders from the local meat market (so they were already thinned!) and I used Frank’s buffalo sauce. DELICIOUS! Will definitely make again.
Jessica says
These were amazing! Just came across your site for the first time and had to try these. I will be making these again and again!
Sonja Jensen says
Made these tonight and it’s a keeper! Love the sauce! Fingers were crispy out of the oven and sauced them to the plate. Followed directions exactly. I had bought Franks to use with a recipe so this was perfect. Thanks so much. Subscribed.