Baked Honey Lime Chicken Tenders
We love this Baked Honey Lime Chicken Tenders healthy recipe alternative to fried chicken, andthe sauce is so good.
Serving4 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, (or chicken tenders)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- ¾ cup flour
- ½ cup Panko Bread crumbs
- 2 Tablespoon butter
Sauce
- 1½ Tablespoon lime juice
- ½ cup honey
- 1 Tablespoon hot sauce
- ½ cup brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Slice chicken into 2 inch strips, or chunks.
- In a large gallon sized bag, mix together salt, pepper, flour, and bread crumbs.
- Place chicken strips into bag and shake bag until all chicken is coated.
- In a 9x13 pan, heat butter in oven until melted.
- Add chicken to pan evenly spaced.
- Bake for 12 minutes. Remove from oven and flip chicken. Bake for additional 10 minutes.
- While chicken is baking, whisk together all ingredients for sauce.
- Remove chicken from oven, and pour sauce over chicken, coating all the pieces.
- Bake for an additional 5 minutes.
- Remove from oven and serve.
Notes
This recipe could easily be made into a freezer meal. However, there are a few things you should note.
- For this particular recipe, we recommend making and preparing the chicken as directed, but not adding the sauce.
- We recommend making the chicken, freezing it, then removing them from the freezer and continuing the recipe, as directed in the instructions.
- We don’t recommend pre-making the sauce for this recipe.
Nutrition
Calories: 498 kcal · Carbohydrates: 86 g · Protein: 22 g · Fat: 9 g · Saturated Fat: 4 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 69 mg · Sodium: 881 mg · Potassium: 432 mg · Fiber: 1 g · Sugar: 62 g · Vitamin A: 211 IU · Vitamin C: 5 mg · Calcium: 52 mg · Iron: 2 mg