Honey Mustard Chicken Tenders
These easy homemade Honey Mustard Chicken Tenders are full of flavor and can be cooked in the air fryer or oven!
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons plain nonfat Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons mustard (I used yellow mustard, but Dijon or brown mustard can be substituted)
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon light mayonnaise
- 1.25 lbs raw boneless skinless chicken breast tenderloins (you can also buy breasts and cut them into strips)
- ⅔ cup cornflake crumbs (these are sold by the other bread crumbs)
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard powder (such as Colman’s – found by the spices)
- ½ teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add the yogurt, mustard, honey, and mayonnaise and stir together to combine. Once fully mixed, add the uncooked chicken tenders to the bowl and stir to coat. Cover the bowl or transfer to a sealed container and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, or up to a day.
- When ready to make the tenders, in a shallow dish, stir together the cornflake crumbs, dry mustard, parsley, paprika, salt, and pepper until thoroughly mixed.
- One at a time, take the honey mustard-coated chicken strips and press them into the dish of corn flake crumbs and flip so that both sides are coated in crumbs.
- Air Fryer: Transfer the crumb-coated strips to the basket of your air fryer in a single layer without the tenders touching each other. My air fryer basket fit six tenders comfortably with space around them, so I was able to cook the tenders in two batches of six (12 tenders total). When you have a batch of chicken tenders positioned correctly in the air fryer basket, lightly mist them with cooking spray. Set the air fryer to 390 degrees Fahrenheit and cook for 5-6 minutes. Flip the tenders over and continue to cook your tenders for another 5-6 minutes until cooked through. Oven: Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. When all the chicken tenders are coated and on the baking sheet, spray the tops of them with cooking spray and place in the oven to bake for 18-20 minutes until cooked through.
Notes
WW Points per serving*: 3 (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
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Nutrition Information per serving*:
254 calories, 17 g carbs, 6 g sugar, 5 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 34 g protein, 0 g fiber, 257 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com) Weight Watchers Points Plus (an older plan):
6 per serving* (PP calculated using a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the nutrition information below) *Since people may cut/buy different sized chicken tenders, I recommend determining the servings by weight. My finished tenders weighed a little over 21 ounces, so each serving was about 5.25 ounces by weight. For me this was around 3 tenders. Inspired by Life's Ambrosia and The Comfort of Cooking
254 calories, 17 g carbs, 6 g sugar, 5 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 34 g protein, 0 g fiber, 257 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com) Weight Watchers Points Plus (an older plan):
6 per serving* (PP calculated using a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the nutrition information below) *Since people may cut/buy different sized chicken tenders, I recommend determining the servings by weight. My finished tenders weighed a little over 21 ounces, so each serving was about 5.25 ounces by weight. For me this was around 3 tenders. Inspired by Life's Ambrosia and The Comfort of Cooking
Nutrition
Calories: 254kcal