Cereal-Breaded Baked Chicken Tenders

Submitted by Debber

"Two bowls and a pan--not much of a mess! Probably want to double the recipe since there will be NO leftovers!! Everyone loves these little crunchers!"

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Ready In:: 25mins
Ingredients:: 7
Serves:: 3-4

ingredients

1 lb chicken breast, cubed
Bowl 1
¹⁄₄ cup ranch salad dressing
Bowl 2
1 cup crushed corn flakes cereal
¹⁄₂ cup grated parmesan cheese
¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt
¹⁄₄ teaspoon pepper
¹⁄₈ teaspoon garlic powder

directions

Preheat oven to 400; grease an 11x7 baking pan; set aside.
Pour Ranch dressing into Bowl 1.
Combine Bowl 2 ingredients, set aside.
Toss chicken in Bowl 1, then Bowl 2; fluffing artistically :-) .
Place chicken cubes in single layer on baking pan.
Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Serve with additional Ranch dressing.
VARIATION: Use Bleu cheese dressing instead (much more yumm-o for the grown-up palate!).
VARIATION #2: There's always the honey-mustard salad dressing route, too.

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Reviews

These were excellent! I baked for close to 30 minutes, but I cut into strips, not cubes. I made half with ranch with garlic seasoning and half with blue cheese and montreal seasoning. They were both delicious!

Cookin it up
Really delicious and super fast to make. I cut up the chicken and just sloshed the ranch on top of the pieces and then dunked the pieces into a ziploc bag in which I had crushed the corn flakes coating. Only dirty prep dishes were the cutting board and knife!

Bokenpop aka Mad
I used an egg wash instead of a dressing because we all like different dipping sauces. They were pretty good. I ran out of the crust mixture and instead of grating more chz and everything, I crushed up some more corn flakes and mixed w/ approx. 2tsp. of Cajun seasoning-these were actually better than the original recipe and easier...we were fighting for them. lol

a-torres
These turn out awesome! I made two different kinds, the cubes/bites did turn out much more moist then the strips. The strips I made with mustard and cracker/pretzel crumbs and the bites were ranch with the remaining cracker/pretzel crumbs but I added some bread crumbs to it. As you can see I pretty much used whatever I had! lol So I'm not sure if the strips were less moist because they have to cook longer OR if its because I used mustard intstead of something that is mayo based. So next time I'll try the strips with a mayo/mustard mix and see if they turn out more moist. But anyway I absolutely love this recipe!! You can do so many different combinations with it! I can't wait to have fun with this recipe. Thank you so much :-)

Jillian1222
My family calls me the chicken tender queen because of this recipe. My grandchildren, daughter, brother and sister devour these tenders. The only thing I change, due to necessity, is using crushed Ritz crackers instead of corn flakes. I don't think I have ever bought a box corn flakes! But I'm sure they work just as well. I, as another reviewer suggested, use a storage bag to mix the dry ingredients to shake and cover the chicken. So, so good!!!

Balto Beth

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Tweaks

My family calls me the chicken tender queen because of this recipe. My grandchildren, daughter, brother and sister devour these tenders. The only thing I change, due to necessity, is using crushed Ritz crackers instead of corn flakes. I don't think I have ever bought a box corn flakes! But I'm sure they work just as well. I, as another reviewer suggested, use a storage bag to mix the dry ingredients to shake and cover the chicken. So, so good!!!

Balto Beth
We enjoyed these lil nuggets. I didn't realize I was running out of Ranch dressing, so I made 1/3 of them with Ranch, another 1/3 with Blue Cheese dressing, and then another 1/3 with mustard. The mustard ones turned out great too! Instead of crushed corn flakes, I used some leftover Italian flavored breadcrumbs.

Heidi T.
I used an egg wash instead of a dressing because we all like different dipping sauces. They were pretty good. I ran out of the crust mixture and instead of grating more chz and everything, I crushed up some more corn flakes and mixed w/ approx. 2tsp. of Cajun seasoning-these were actually better than the original recipe and easier...we were fighting for them. lol

a-torres

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