We love this Baked Honey Lime Chicken Tenders healthy recipe alternative to fried chicken, and I could seriously drink this sauce with a straw, it is that good.
Your whole family is going love these Baked Honey Lime Chicken Tenders.
They are also incredibly easy to make, so you are going to love them as well. They come together in a matter of minutes and taste amazing.
My kids love dipping them in ranch, but you honestly don’t need any more sauce with these bad boys. They have so much flavor and are so tender, no dipping is needed.
They are simple, fast, healthy, and most importantly, out of this world delicious.
Your family is going to go crazy for these.
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How to make baked honey lime chicken tenders:
- Cut your chicken breasts into smaller strips, or you could also use chicken tenders.
- In a bowl or gallon sized ziploc, combine the dry ingredients.
- Add your chicken tenders to the mixture and coat them completely.
- Grease your pan with non stick cooking spray and place them in a row.
- While the chicken strips are baking, combine your sauce. If you are having a hard time combining it, you can put it in a pan and let it heat up a little to better combine and mix it.
- After cooking the strips, and combining the sauce, pour the mixture over the baked chicken tenders, and serve warm.
You could also squeeze a little lime juice over them for a little extra lime flavor.
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Could I make these Honey Lime Chicken Tenders into a freezer meal?
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.
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Baked Honey Lime Chicken Tenders
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 Tablespoons butter
Sauce
- 1½ Tablespoons 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 9×13 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
- 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.
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Thank you. Sounds so refreshing.
This sounds so good! Is there enough sauce to serve it over rice, or is it meant to eat alone?
Where can I find a copy of this recipe that will “pin”?
How much of the bread crumbs do you use? You didn’t list a measurement. Thanks!
Hi Candace! Thanks for bringing that to our attention. It’s 1/2 cup Panko Bread crumbs.
Just made this tonight. My boyfriend and I loved it, he is a picky eater so I’m was happy that he enjoyed it. Just one question, my panko didn’t stick to my chicken. Any reason why that would happen? I made my chicken into cubes but don’t feel like that would matter. Even with that slight issue, it was amazing.
We haven’t had a problem with it sticking to the moist chicken. You could beat 2 eggs and dip it in the beaten eggs, then in the panko crumb mixture.
Hi! How can I make this into a freezer meal to make ahead of time? I’m thinking of coating the chicken and then freezing it in a foil pan. Do you think it would defrost okay and that the breadcrumbs would stay intact? Maybe you could give me a better idea! Thank you!
Hi Paula. That’s what I was thinking. Make the chicken tenders and put them in a freezer container covered well. Thaw in the fridge and then bake as directed. Then make the sauce before serving.
What do you use for hot sauce? Is this like Tabasco sauce? If my family doesn’t like spicy could I leave it out?
We use Frank’s hot sauce and it comes in different levels of heat.
I followed recipe and the breading basically disappeared when I baked them. I think egg first then breading would have worked. I turned the oven up to 400 when they weren’t getting done after 20 minutes. Could be my oven though. The sauce was yummy and sticky! I served it with veggie fried rice. We liked it !
The sauce is delicious, but the tenders are disappointing. The panko didn’t stick at all. Just flour covered tenders. I’ll use a different method for the tenders next time but keep the yum sauce.
I buy chicken tenders to save a step…does this recipe use about 1 lb of tenders? I don’t want to be short on the sauce!
Probably closer to 1 1/2 pounds.
Not my favorite. Planko crumbs didn’t stick, sauce wasn’t thick so it didn’t stay on the chicken. Chicken got mushy cooking it.
This recipe is so yummy and easy! My kids love it!
Disappointed. Wish I read the reviews first. This recipe looked so good. But as the reviews say, the coating disappears into the chicken and is way too much flour! I was expecting/hoping for a crispy coating outside The panko doesn’t stick. Would be better on crispy fried chicken.