plate of delicious chicken tenders sauces with a combination of Sauce Goddess Sticky Sweet and Buffalo saucessauce

Sweet Buffalo Chicken Tenders

Why have fatty chicken wings when you can have delicious Buffalo style chicken tenders? We’re adding our Sticky Sweet BBQ sauce to enhance the wing sauce flavor.

Nutritional Information

A standard serving of unbreaded chicken tenders (about 2-3 pieces) typically contains around 120-180 calories, making them a great choice for lean protein. We opted for grilling with this recipe.

Cooking Tenders

Achieving the perfect chicken tenders requires a balance of flavor, crispiness, and juiciness.

Below are some general rules to follow when preparing these delectable treats. For more detailed information, check out our Chicken Tenders blog.

Wet Marinade

Marinating the chicken tenders for at least 30 minutes before cooking can infuse them with additional flavor. That is what we are doing with this recipe, putting them in a wet marinade for 30 minutes.

Cooking Technique

For this recipe, we like to grill. They can be baked easily too. Simply use a sheet pan and the oven, toaster oven or air fryer.

The “Wing” Dip

Pair your chicken tenders with an array of dipping sauces. With this recipe we think a nice ranch-style sauces works great.

Sweet Buffalo Chicken Tenders

Jennifer

Cuisine

American

Category

Chicken, Grilling, Healthy Meal

When you can't decide between BBQ chicken and Buffalo wings, make this!

This recipe is a great combination of our Sticky Sweet Chicken and your favorite Buffalo wing sauce and butter of course.

We grilled and sauced chicken tenders with it to create a lighter version of wings.

Sweet Buffalo Chicken Tenders

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs Chicken Tenders

  • 1 cup hot sauce sauce (we like Crystal hot sauce for this one)

  • 1 cup Sticky Sweet Brown Sugar BBQ sauce

  • 6 Tbsp salted butter

  • 1 Tbsp BBQ Sweet Heat seasoning

Directions

  1. Combine all the ingredient except the chicken tenders into a sauce pan.

  2. Warm over low heat until the just butter melts.

  3. Place ¾ cup of the blended sauce in a bowl for serving.

  4. Let sauce cool for 15 minutes. This will be your cooking sauce.

  5. Sprinkle the chicken with BBQ Sweet Heat seasoning.

  6. Pour ¼ cup of sauce over all the chicken tenders.

  7. Preheat the grill on medium.

  8. Let the chicken marinade will the grill warms up.

  9. Cook the tenders until barely cooked on both sides. About 3-4 minutes per side.

  10. Dunk each piece in remaining cooking sauce and return to the grill.

  11. Cook and repeat the dunking process, flipping to the second side. Another 4-5 minutes per side.

  12. After a total of 10 minutes per side of cooking the chicken should be done. Test by holding the chicken tender with a tong in the middle and see if it is barely bending over each end. That’s done.

  13. Plate the tenders and pour over some of the excess reserved sauce (from the bowl you set aside). Serve the extra sauce on the side.
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