Easy and Quick Baked Chicken Tenders

[Music] hey I'm Yankel and when it comes to easy meals lots of leftovers meal prep and multiple options chicken tenders are the way to go I'm gonna show you the easiest way to do it [Music] with three pounds of beautiful chicken tenders now these are nearly entirely defrosted but I want them fully defrosted before we start cooking so I'm gonna head over to the sink and we're gonna put them into a glass bowl with some running water [Music] right into the bowl some cool running water [Music] and we're gonna leave the water running just a trickle so that there's always movement in the ball that's perfect while that's happening we're gonna preheat our oven to 375 I'm going let's see roast 375 beautiful that's gonna be the perfect temperature to give us a little bit of browning on the tenders cook them quickly but not overcook them all right let's check on our tenders they only needed a little bit in the water to be fully defrosted mostly I want them to come apart real easily without tearing that feels good enough to me now I'm actually gonna bring the bowl with me because one of the keys to getting a nice roast on these tenders is making sure they're dry first so let's head over to the counter and dry out our tenders so the first thing I'm gonna do is lay a little bit of paper towel down on my tray really want to absorb as much of the moisture as possible now I'm just going to open these tenders up and we're gonna lay them on the paper towel [Music] blow them up a bit super-attractive process taking raw chicken out of plastic but kind of one of those things we have to figure out how to make look good that's what we do all right break them up one more sheet of paper towels dry them real nicely we are gonna add a little bit of moisture via olive oil and we're gonna put a little bit of salt on the chicken tenders that'll help draw some of the natural moisture out while it cooks and then we're gonna let it rest in that moisture so that it goes back in so that when you bite it's always gonna be juicy all right we're gonna go right into a bowl we're gonna add spices I'm just using dried spices things that I always have in my pantry they always taste good they add really nice flavor even a little bit of texture because of how we're gonna bake it so I've got onion powder garlic powder and paprika and of course we always want a good amount of salt and pepper now you can substitute your favorite dried spices you can go with fresh herbs if that's something you wanted to do this is really just the easiest way to make these tastes absolutely amazing now a healthy dose of olive oil I'm just going to mix it all together till it's really nicely coated and lay it out on the tray [Music] cute music one last dousing salt-and-pepper and one more splash of olive oil right across the top really going to give them some beautiful color flavor and texture and I highly recommend using an olive oil that you enjoy the taste of taste it if it tastes good use it if you don't enjoy it find a different one all right we're going into the oven 375 degrees for about 15 minutes I think our chicken tenders are all done they cook really quickly and the one thing we don't want to do is overcook them because then they're not very good so these have nice color they look pretty juicy temperature is where we need it to be even a little bit fast so we are good now we're gonna let them rest right in the pan there's a little bit of moisture there that's gonna get reabsorbed we want every drop we can get these are amazingly versatile I put these on sandwiches I cut them up and put them on salads I cut them up and make chicken salad out of them sometimes I just heat them up and serve them with a vegetable one tray of these and I've got meal prep four or five meals for the week easy you can dress them up however you like and you can see plenty of moisture there plenty of juice in the pan remember let them rest for just a few minutes in the pan before you go to platter or eating [Music] look when it comes to cooking it doesn't have to be complicated baking something is fine all you have to do is dress it up with some spices use whatever you have around experiment a little bit and have a good olive oil on hand it makes everything fantastic I'm Yankel see you next time [Music]

Channel: ButcherBox

Views: 418,082

Keywords: chicken tenders, chicken tenders recipe, chicken recipes, easy, easy recipes, baked chicken, quick baked chicken tenders, quick and easy chicken tenders, butcherbox recipes

Id: ZOr8NwH4f90

Length: 6min 49sec (409 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 29 2019