Chicken Tenders with Two Dipping Sauces

You could buy chicken strips/tenders in the frozen section 

OR go to fast food places and buy some chicken something or other.  

You can make your own, these are easy, 

and that way you know exactly what is going into your food!

This is a kid's meal but fit for adults, too.

Starting with the dipping sauces.  Tonight I made honey mustard and spicy Thai dipping sauces.  So gather the ingredients and let's get cooking!

Honey Mustard -- equal parts of honey and dijon mustard.  The honey is a product and gift from a friend who is a bee keeper, he gives us quart jars of honey from his bees!!--we are so lucky to live where we live!  

Thai Sauce  -- 1/2 C sugar, 1/2 C water (boil to dissolve the sugar), 1/2 C lemon juice OR vinegar, grate in some ginger root and some garlic.  Add hot sauce sparingly!  I added a splash of fish sauce, be careful, this stuff is salty!  

Photos show grating the ginger root and garlic.  Just a tip on ginger root, you can chunk it, peel it, and then freeze.  It keeps forever and you can grate it frozen.  EASY!

Take a chicken breast and slice it into strips.  The three breading stations -- seasoned flour, egg wash, and panko bread crumbs.

The chicken strips go into the egg wash after being coated with seasoned flour.  Egg wash is simply a beaten egg with some cold water added.

There they go into the panko bread crumbs.  You can use regular bread crumbs if you can't find panko, but panko bread crumbs make them super crispy!

And Panko Bread Crumbs make me crazy, crazy, that's all....

All coated and ready to go into a lightly oiled skillet to brown and crisp and become delish!

This is my new favorite non-stick skillet!  It is ceramic w/o PFOA and is stable on exposure to high heat.  We have no teflon or other non stick skillets.  Only ceramic and stainless steel cookware.  This baby cooks a crispy product--oh and we have a smaller one for fried/scrambled eggs.  

Done!  Nice and crisp and tender!  Ready for some dipping sauce....

Hummmmm, honey mustard OR spicy Thai dipping sauce?  

Either way, it's a winner!

yum!

Yum!

and YUM!  What else can you say about sauce dripping from a chicken tender???  

Dinner tonight was a kids meal fit for adults!  

Add in some steamed veggies and dinner is done!

Enjoy friends!!!