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Make sure to preheat the air fryer before cooking the nuggets and spray the air fryer and nuggets with cooking spray to ensure they don't stick. Cook at 400 degrees for 6-8 minutes depending on the thickness of the nuggets. The following the same instructions for breading the chicken.

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Start by cutting either full chicken breasts or chicken breast tenders into nugget sized pieces. This recipe works great for chicken nuggets as well. You do not have to defrost them first, just add them to the air fryer frozen. If you are cooking frozen raw chicken tenders, plan on cooking them for 20-25 minutes at 375 degrees. Bump the temperature up to 400 degrees and flip the tenders halfway through cooking. If you are using pre-cooked frozen chicken strips (either homemade or store-bought), they will take about 10-15 minutes. This assumes you are using fresh raw chicken and making your own tenders homemade. When you are making homemade chicken tenders, they usually take about 8-10 minutes in the air fryer when cooked at 375 degrees. How long to cook chicken tenders in the air fryer? For some green, consider making these 10 Minute Garlic Green Beans.Make these Crispy Baked Potato Wedges, which is one of my favorite side dishes of all time.Instead of making traditional potato fries, consider making them with sweet potatoes or butternut squash.For a lower carb option, consider serving these with some Crispy Turnip Fries or Baked Parsnip Fries.I also love these air fryer chicken tenders served over a big green salad. However, I almost always cook the side dish in the oven since the air fryer only holds so much at one time. Since these chicken strips need to be cooked in batches in the air fryer, consider starting the first batch while you continue to bread the remaining tenders.Īnytime I am serving a 'fried' style dish like these chicken strips, I like to serve healthier versions of other restaurant style dishes like fries or onion rings.These chicken tenders can also be cooked in the oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.This works best when you are also adding an additional flavor like lemon juice or hot sauce. You can also marinate the chicken in the egg wash for up to 30 minutes to add extra flavor. Try adding hot sauce, lemon juice, buttermilk, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, or mustard. To add more flavor to the tenders, consider adding some flavor to the egg wash.You can also play with the ratio of regular breadcrumbs and Panko breadcrumbs and try out different spices and herbs.

You can use plain, whole wheat, or seasoned.

These tenders will work with any combination of breadcrumbs.

Then just pop them in the air fryer for an easy meal. The other great thing about this recipe is that you can make a bunch and freeze them for future meals.

The kids were already asking me to make them again before we finished dinner. We served our tenders with some baked fries and homemade honey mustard. They come out super crispy and honestly, no one will miss the fact that they aren't deep fried.

Lately, I have been continuing to make restaurant type dishes at home and after trying lots of versions of a chicken tender, this air fryer version is my favorite. They create healthier versions of your favorite fried foods, like these air fryer chicken strips, while maintaining all the flavor and crunch. If you are someone who loves deep fried food but is trying to eat healthier, you need an air fryer. Serve them with some Baked Potato Chips and homemade coleslaw for a meal everyone will love.

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Plus they are freezer friendly and easy to make. They come out crispy and crunchy, just like they would in a restaurant but they are so much healthier. There are so many things to love about these crispy Chicken Tenders made in the air fryer.

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