Baked Fried Chicken Tenders
This is my best oven baked fried chicken so far.
Ingredients
- 10 chicken tenders
- 1 ½ cups buttermilk- make your own by using 1 tablespoon of white vinegar per 1 cup of regular milk.
- 2 ½ cups flour.
- ⅓ cups cornmeal.
- 2 tablespoons butter.
- 2 tablespoons oil.
Spice Mixture
- 1 tablespoon salt.
- 1 teaspoon pepper.
- 1 teaspoon paprika.
- 2 teaspoons cardamom powder.
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder.
Instructions
- Mix Spices together, take just 1 tablespoon of the spice mixture and add it to 1 cup of buttermilk.
- Rinse the chicken, and soak overnight -in your fridge - in the buttermilk.
- When you are ready to cook, pre-heat your oven to 400F.
- Microwave butter and oil until butter is melted, spread half the butter mixture on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Mix, flour, cornmeal and the remaining of the spices very well in a bowl.
- Using a fork, gradually mix the remaining buttermilk into the flour until there are little lumps throughout. You might need more flour or more buttermilk to get decent amount of lumps.
- Coat chicken tenders with the flour mixture pressing with your fingers to adhere the lumps nicely and evenly to your chicken pieces.
- Arrange chicken on the buttered baking sheet, with a spoon, or a brush, brush the remaining butter and oil mixture on the top side of the chicken.
- Bake until it reaches the desired color and crispness, turning once halfway, mine took 30 minutes total.
- Serve and Enjoy!