Easy Baked Chicken Tenders
These crispy baked chicken tenders are breaded with seasoned panko crumbs for that extra crunch factor. Baking means there's no guilt of frying!
⏱️ Total: 30 mins
🔪 Prep: 15 mins
👨👩👧👦 Yield: 4 servings
🏷️ Main course
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1.25 cups panko bread crumbs
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon ground paprika
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 4 skinless, boneless chicken tenders, cut into 1/2-inch strips lengthwise
Instructions
- Gather all ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray with cooking spray.
- Place egg in a shallow dish. Place panko, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt, and pepper into a large zip-top freezer bag and mix well.
- Dip 2 chicken strips into egg, then place into panko mixture and shake to coat. Place coated chicken pieces onto the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with remaining chicken.
- Spray each chicken tender with cooking spray twice.
- Bake tenders in the preheated oven for 7 minutes. Flip and continue to bake on opposite side until no longer pink in the centers, about 7 minutes more. Remove from the oven.
- Set an oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler.
- Broil tenders in the preheated oven for extra crunch, about 1 to 2 minutes more.
- Serve hot and enjoy!