Wasabi-Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders

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December 10, 2015
Dinner Ideas
December 10, 2015

Wasabi-Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders

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Wasabi-Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders

dunking a Wasabi-Almond Crusted Chicken Tender into ketchup

What makes for the perfect game day snack

Football season is in full swing, and that means game day snacks are on my agenda. Growing up in a football household, Sundays were aptly deemed “Football Sundays.” The dads would sit around drinking beers and watching the game, while the kids would run around the house tossing a kid-sized football between bites of delivery pizza.

Now that I’m an adult, I spend game days watching with my boyfriend. We’re the ones sitting on the couch drinking beers, our eyes glued to the TV. Not much has changed, except I’ve swapped mediocre pizza for homemade game day snacks.

Game day snacks, in my opinion, have two key characteristics. They are bursting with flavor, and can be picked up with your fingers. Dips, chips, wings, and things. 

Wasabi-Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders with ketchup

These Wasabi-Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders are my new favorite Sunday snack. They’re made with Wasabi & Soy Sauce Almonds. Like woah, guys. The only way I can describe how good these are is the following:

Scene: Car, coming home from yoga. Rebe has brought the package of Wasabi & Soy Sauce Almonds and hands them to Me.
Me: (eating almonds) holy s***, these are amazing.
Rebe: yeah? that’s great.
Me: (chomping down) no like these are SO good.
Rebe: uhh, don’t you need those for your post?
Me: (scarfing) I CAN’T HELP MYSELF I’LL JUST HAVE TO GET MORE AT THE STORE

Plus, almond crusted chicken is a flavor party in your mouth like no other. It’s savory and salty and protein-y all at the same time. The wasabi and soy combo brings it to another level entirely.

Wasabi-Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders on baking tray

Tips for making wasabi-almond crusted chicken tenders

Don’t blend the almonds too finely — Yes, you want the crushed almonds to stick to the chicken tenders, but if you make them too fine there won’t be any additional crunch to these tenders. And you want that crunch. So pulse the wasabi almonds in a food processor, but only until they’re just crushed up.

Save half the almond meal — When you begin rolling these chicken tenders in the eggs, milk, and almonds, save half the almonds for the second half of the batch. This will prevent the almond meal from getting too soggy. (If you dunk the chicken tenders into moist almond meal the chicken won’t crisp up in the oven).

Cut the chicken evenly — To ensure that these almond crusted chicken tenders bake at the same rate, do your best to cut them into even-sized strips. Obviously, some variation in size is normal, but you want them to be fairly similar in size and shape.

Wasabi-Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders with can of almonds

Though I miss the days of tossing a tiny tike football around the house, I wouldn’t trade these tenders for delivery pizza any day. I’m happy to be an adult 🙂

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Wasabi-Almond Crusted Chicken Tenders

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Ingredients

For the chicken tenders

For the sriracha ketchup

  • 1/3 cup ketchup
  • 1 tablespoon sriracha sauce

Instructions

    1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
    2. In a food processor, pulse the almonds until mixture resembles sand. Place half of almond meal on a large plate, reserving the other half (this will help to keep the almond meal dry as the battered chicken touches it).
    3. Whisk eggs and milk in a small bowl. Trim chicken into roughly 1.5″x3″ strips. Dip each tender into the egg mixture, then coat with almond meal on both sides. Place onto prepared sheet. Once your first half of almond meal begins to get wet, dump it out and replace it with the reserved second half of almond meal.
    4. Bake for 25 minutes, or until golden brown.
    5. While the tenders are cooking, make the sriracha ketchup. Combine sriracha and ketchup in a bowl and whisk until combined. Serve with tenders.

More chicken recipes from Broma Bakery:

Lightened Up Creamy Chicken Corn Chowder

Slow Cooker Asian BBQ Pulled Chicken Sandwiches

Buttermilk Fried Chicken

Watercress, Apple, and Farro Green Chicken Salad

This post is sponsored by Blue Diamond Almonds. Ditch the chips and grab some Game Changing Flavors this football season! 

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  1. Interesting idea. Got to ask you something though – since I love spicy food, do you think It would be too extreme if I add some chili sauce once I got them backed?