Recipe: Tasty Baked Cheddar Ranch Chicken Tenders

Baked Cheddar Ranch Chicken Tenders. Incredibly tender, juicy flavorful Baked Cheddar Ranch Chicken Tenders coated in the most AMAZING ranch/cheese cracker breading! These chicken tenders are so finger-lickin'-good they will fly off the plate! These baked Cheddar Ranch Chicken Tenders make an easy, family-friendly meal!

Skip the regular breadcrumbs and grab the cheese crackers for a family favorite recipe for Baked Cheddar Dijon Chicken Tenders. A dollop of Dijon mustard takes these crispy tenders from blah to brilliant in a way only Dijon can do. Crisp bacon, shredded cheddar cheese and crispy panko bread crumbs combine for a flavorful, easy to make chicken tender dish. You can have Baked Cheddar Ranch Chicken Tenders using 6 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Baked Cheddar Ranch Chicken Tenders

1. Prepare 2 of chicken breasts.
2. You need 2 1/2 cups of buttermilk.
3. You need 1 packet of ranch dressing mix.
4. You need 3 cups of cheezits.
5. You need 1 cup of all-purpose flour.
6. It’s 2 tsp of Dijon mustard.

Here's what you need: chicken breasts, buttermilk, ranch dressing mix, cheese cracker. Open the bag and place a marinated piece of chicken in the cracker crumbs. Coat the chicken with the crumbs and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. No one will ever believe that these crisp chicken fingers are completely baked and cooked on ONE PAN with veggies!

Baked Cheddar Ranch Chicken Tenders instructions

1. Preheat oven to 425˚F..
2. On a cutting board, slice chicken breasts against the grain into strips..
3. Place the chicken strips in a bowl and add in buttermilk and ranch packet. Stir until well-coated..
4. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least an hour..
5. Pour cheese crackers into a resealable bag and crush with a rolling pin until they become finely ground..
6. Coat in flour. Shake off the excess..
7. In a separate wide, shallow bowl, whisk together the eggs with the Dijon mustard. Place chicken in bowl. Coat well..
8. Now, open the bag and place a marinated piece of chicken in the cracker crumbs. Now coat the chicken with the crumbs and place on parchment lined baking sheet..
9. Bake for 20 minutes, flipping halfway..

To make the pot even sweeter, you can bake your veggies right alongside your chicken tenders, making this an easy-peasy full-rounded meal! We trim real chicken tenders by hand and dip them twice in beer batter. Your Nearby Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen. , View all hours. This Ranch Cheddar Chicken is the best baked chicken recipe I've ever had! It's so moist and has a ton of flavor!