Doritos-Crusted Chicken Tenders
These Doritos-Crusted Chicken Tenders are turn a favorite snack into a satisfying, protein-packed meal!
Ingredients
- 4 teaspoons all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 ¼ lbs (20 oz) raw boneless skinless chicken breasts cut into 12 strips (you can alternatively buy chicken tenderloins)
- 1 large egg
- 5 oz Nacho Cheese Doritos
Instructions
- In a small dish, add the flour, salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder, and cayenne, and stir to combine. Place the chicken strips into a gallon Ziploc bag and add the flour mixture. Seal the bag and shake to coat the chicken.
- In a shallow dish, beat the egg and set aside.
- Place the Doritos in a Ziploc bag and crush into crumbs using your hands, a rolling pin, or a meat mallet. Place the Doritos crumbs in a separate shallow dish from the egg.
- One at a time, take the flour-coated chicken strips and coat them in the egg, allowing the excess to drip off. Then press them into the dish of Doritos 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 380 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 16-20 minutes (flipping the tenders over once halfway through) until cooked through.
Notes
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WW Points per serving*: 6 (Points calculated using the recipe builder in the WW app)
Nutrition Information per serving*:
383 calories, 24 g carbs, 1 g sugar, 15 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 36 g protein, 2 g fiber, 328 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com) Weight Watchers Points Plus:
10 per serving* (PP calculated using a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the nutrition information) *Since people may cut/buy different sized chicken tenders, I recommend determining the servings by weight. My finished tenders weighed a little over 24 ounces, so each serving was about 6 ounces by weight. For me this was around 3 tenders.
383 calories, 24 g carbs, 1 g sugar, 15 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 36 g protein, 2 g fiber, 328 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com) Weight Watchers Points Plus:
10 per serving* (PP calculated using a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the nutrition information) *Since people may cut/buy different sized chicken tenders, I recommend determining the servings by weight. My finished tenders weighed a little over 24 ounces, so each serving was about 6 ounces by weight. For me this was around 3 tenders.