Beautiful balance of flavors is bursting here, in this tasty chicken dish. Crispy chicken tenders are made with sriracha sauce right in the batter and served with a cool, sweet honey sour cream sauce. For the brave ones, drizzle some more sriracha sauce on top of cooked chicken tenders.
My little man’s obsession with sriracha sauce continues! And, I continue to take advantage of that and make different dishes for him to try. There are a few key ingredients that I can add to a dish that will get him to agree to taste it and sriracha and honey are two of the bigger ones. Those two and honey mustard actually. I haven’t figured out a way to use all three and I have a pretty strong feeling that mustard will clash with sriracha, whether it’s sweet or not.
I’m beyond happy that he is agreeing to try more and more new dishes lately. Finally, I’m starting to see a light at the end of this picky eater tunnel. I don’t like it that he doesn’t have as wide variety in his diet and it’s so hard to pack lunch for him for school. I know that there is a fat chance of him eating lunch from school cafeteria and having more things to pack is always nice. I just think it’s hilarious that he loves spicy foods. I would have never guessed in a million years that sriracha would be my bargaining ingredient. I get chocolate, I get ranch, I even get honey mustard, but sriracha, that was a surprise.
Luckily, sriracha and chicken are awesome together and it’s a great way for him to eat more protein. If you remember, he discovered sriracha sauce when I made Sriracha Chicken Tacos and has been loving it since then. So I decided to put this spicy twist on our favorite chicken tenders recipe and it paid off big. I’m thinking of tackling veggies next, to see if sriracha will get him to eat more of those.
As I mentioned above, these crispy chicken tenders are already cooked with sriracha sauce in the batter but for the brave ones, you can also mix some sriracha and honey together and drizzle over cooked chicken tenders for a bigger sriracha flavor. I don’t think that I’d be able to handle that much hot sauce without a gallon of milk following it, but I know many people that can do it in a heartbeat.
This is actually why I made this sweet, creamy, and citrusy sauce to go along with this crispy chicken. It’s a great combination of flavors and it acts as a perfect cooling agent for the spicy sriracha.
Sriracha Crispy Chicken Tenders with Honey Dipping Sauce
Ingredients
- 10-12 raw chicken tenders
- 3/4 cup low fat buttermilk
- 2 Tbsp Sriracha
- Salt
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp paprika
- Salt
- 3-5 cups vegetable oil for frying
- Sauce:
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1/2 Tbsp honey
- 1 tsp lime juice
Instructions
- Heat oil to 350 degrees. You can use a deep cooking pan but don't fill it more than 1/2 way because the hot oil will fizz and raise as you add the chicken.
- Place a couple of paper towels on a plate for the cooked chicken. Paper towels will soak up excess oil.
- In a medium bowl, mix buttermilk sriracha and salt and in another medium bowl, mix flour paprika and salt.
- Pat chicken tenders dry with a paper towel. Dredge each chicken tender in the flour mixture first, then dip it in buttermilk mixture and then, toss it back in the flour mixture.
- Fry battered chicken for 8 to 10 minutes, depending on the size of the tenders. Remember, use a metal slotted spoon or metal tongs to take out chicken tenders.
- For the sauce, mix all three ingredients until smooth.
- Serve right away.
- **If you want to add a drizzle of sriracha sauce, mix 2 Tbsp of sriracha with 1 Tbsp of honey.**
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Kristie says
Have you converted these for air fryer yet?
LyubaB says
Sorry Kristie, I have not.
Hayley says
What’s with the lack of comments here? Best tenders ever. I made these and they were amazing. Super tasty. Thank you.
LyubaB says
Aw, thank you, Hayley! I am so glad you liked them!
Ddellia says
Just got to try these. Can’t find the chicken
Dip. Recipe.