Cool Ranch Chicken Tenders

Cool Ranch Chicken Tenders recipe - chicken tenders coated in taco seasoning and ranch - baked not fried! Ready in 15 minutes!! Can coat tenders and freeze uncooked for later.

I get a lot of questions about what type/brand of chicken I buy. My favorite brand is Tyson ® Fresh Chicken. I love it because it is all natural* without added hormones or steroids**. It is delivered within days of leaving the farm, so I know it is fresh. It’s the next best thing to being on the farm! Which is good, because I’m not a farm kind of girl.

Tyson Fresh Chicken has a great site for easy meal planning – PickTysonFresh.com. The site has convenient recipe ideas that save time and effort. My kind of recipes! I am always striving to make quick and easy meals. I don’t want to spend all night in the kitchen. I want to have plenty of time to spend with Chicken Legs and the cats.

Put these chicken tenders on your menu ASAP! They are crazy good. We both took one bite and said “YUM!” The chicken is coated in a mixture of taco and ranch seasoning. It is so good. They tasted similar to Cool Ranch Doritos, but healthier. These chicken tenders are on the table in under 30 minutes. I had the chicken coated in the time the oven preheated and popped them in the oven for about 15 minutes. These were so good that I wished I had doubled the recipe so I had leftovers for lunch. I am already planning on making these again very soon!
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Cool Ranch Chicken Tenders recipe - chicken tenders coated in taco seasoning and ranch - baked not fried! Ready in 15 minutes!! Can coat tenders and freeze uncooked for later.


Cool Ranch Chicken Tenders
serves 4

  • 1 ½ lb boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Tenders
  • 1 (1-oz) package Ranch dressing mix
  • 1 (1-oz) package taco seasoning
  • 1 egg
  • 1 Tbsp milk
  • ⅓ cup flour
  • 1 cup panko bread crumbs

Preheat oven to 425.

Combine Ranch dressing mix and taco seasoning.

In a shallow dish, combine flour and 1 tablespoon of taco/Ranch mixture.

In a second shallow dish, whisk egg, milk and 1 tablespoon of taco/Ranch mixture.

In a third shallow dish, combine panko bread crumbs and remaining taco/Ranch mixture.

Coat chicken tenders in flour mixture, dip in egg mixture, coat in panko bread crumb mixture. Place coated tenders on baking sheet.

Bake for 15 minutes.

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  1. One of my favorite quick chicken recipes is using leftover grilled or roasted chicken in my favorite fried rice.

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  2. My favorite quick chicken recipe is chicken spaghetti. I cut the chicken breasts in bite-size pieces and stir fry, then toss with sauce and pasta.

  3. I have a chicken and dumpling recipe for the slow cooker that is my family's favorite!
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  4. You can't beat boneless chicken breasts when you need a quick dinner. I have a Le Creuset grill pan that does a nice job with them, either marinated and grilled as-is, or cut into chunks and skewered with veggies (onion, cherry tomato, mushrooms, zucchini, whatever) for a quick kebab. Either way, all it needs is a salad and some rice and it's an easy dinner in no time.

  5. My favorite quick chicken recipe is Sour Cream Chicken Bake (where the chicken is rolled in sour cream, then crushed Ritz crackers and baked in the oven).

  6. I cook up a bunch of chicken tenders by browning them in a pan and then dusting them with Old Bay Seasoning and sticking that in the oven to finish. Serve over rice.
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  7. My favorite quick chicken recipe for my family is crispy chicken strips with BBQ sauce. Everyone love it!

    Nicole.ddziedzic at gmail dot com

  8. My favorite quick chicken recipe is to butterfly a boneless skinless breast half, season it with jerk seasoning or any other dry rub, and grill it 4 minutes a side over a 350°F grill. Then serve it with a seasoned mayo on toasted bun.

  9. My favorite chicken recipe is my Cheesy Chicken and Corn and Wild Rice Egg Scramble that I created myself!

  10. One of my fav chicken recipes is dipping the chicken tenders in ranch dressing and then dredging them through a paprika and Rice Krispie mixture and then bake! Sounds kind of weird, but somehow it works and is really yummy!

  11. i like to bread my chicken in buttermilk let soak for a while then crush froasted flakes and add your seasings before you coast with froasted flakes though and bake my son loves it make sure you get most of the buttermilk off though

  12. My son's very favorite chicken is thin chicken strips sprinkled with plenty of lemon pepper, quickly cooked in a little canola oil. My favorite is just plain ol' baked (bone-in) chicken – not the quickest but the easiest and tastiest to me!

  13. My favorite quick chicken recipe is one you posted awhile back for crock pot chicken and gravy — so simple to throw together in the morning before work!

  14. I use the chicken tenderloins to make chicken sandwiches. Top with jack cheese, lettuce and tomato on a whole wheat bun.

  15. My favorite chicken recipe is crockpot Hawaiian Chicken. We serve it with brown rice and roasted snap peas. YUM!

  16. Lately during the summer we have been doing a lot of grilled chicken but normally we like to cut chicken breasts thin and make chicken sandwiches, but now after seeing this new cool ranch chicken we may have to make this soon!!

    L. Ackles
    alysmama1@yahoo.com

  17. I like to make a quick Chicken Parmesan by breading the chicken and baking it. I also make a quick sauce and cook noodles to top off the meal with some shredded mozzarella. Thanks for the chance to enter.

    Andrea D.
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  18. My favorite quick chicken "recipe" is to throw boneless skinless breasts in the crockpot with some sort of sauce/seasoning- BBQ, Italian dressing, spaghetti sauce, taco seasoning- whatever I have on hand! We normally shred the chicken and eat in wraps.

  19. I love McCormick's Smokin Sweet Tea marinade – marinade while at work – grill when I get home – either a breast or thigh – great on either – and then take leftovers and slice on a salad for the next day. Great stuff!

  20. My favorite is crockpot chicken with French onion soup, potatoes, carrots and green beans. Yummy! This is one of my families' favorites!

  21. The recipe for Ultimate Chicken Fingers that you shared on here. But I usually leave out the parm and sub regular salt for the garlic salt.

  22. One of our favorite ways to prepare chicken is in Chicken Bog. Shredded chicken, rice, and summer sausage, all mixed together. Yum!

  23. We make buffalo chicken tenders, breaded with panko and baked, that are quick, easy, and delicious!

  24. Our favorite quick chicken recipie is to marinade thinly sliced boneless, skinless chicken breasts in a mixture of lemon, olive oil, salt, pepper, & oregano. Then broil or grill. It's awesome!

  25. A favorite quick recipe is to marinade chicken in Italian dressing from a local restaurant and then grill.

  26. My fav chicken recipe is Bacon Cheddar Baked Chicked using Kraft Fresh Take. It is so yummy and easy and inexpensive. Plus they have several other flavors.

  27. My favorite quick chicken recipe is to take boneless, skinless breasts, pound them evenly, season with McCormick Roasted Garlic Seasoning and a little bit of Liquid Smoke and then put them on my George Foreman. I eat them plain or put them in salads or whatever crosses my mind.

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