Tyson Chicken Tenders Recipe

Tyson's Crispy Chicken Strips are fully cooked and go from the freezer straight into the heat: 15 minutes at 390°F in the air fryer, which Tyson calls the preferred method, or 22 minutes at 425°F in the oven. The other varieties need different settings, listed below, together with a honey mustard sauce that takes two minutes.

What is in the bag

Tyson describes the Crispy Chicken Strips as fully cooked chicken breast strips with rib meat in a crispy breading, sold in a 25-ounce bag and kept frozen until they are prepared. A serving is 3 ounces, and the label gives it 200 calories and 13 grams of protein; the bag holds about eight servings. A serving of the card, 3 ounces of strips with a quarter of the sauce, comes to about 310 calories by USDA figures.

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Recipe

Tyson Chicken Tenders with Honey Mustard

Tyson's frozen Crispy Chicken Strips heated from frozen in the air fryer or the oven by the package directions, with a honey mustard dipping sauce. Four servings.

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Prep

5 min

Cook

15 min

Total

20 min

Serves

4

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 12 ounces frozen Tyson Crispy Chicken Strips (half of a 25-ounce bag)
• For the honey mustard:
• 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Instructions

1. Heat the strips from frozen, in one layer. In the air fryer: 15 minutes at 390°F. In the oven: 22 minutes at 425°F on a baking sheet. They are done when they are hot in the middle and crisp.
2. While the strips heat, stir the mayonnaise, the mustard, the honey and the lemon juice together until smooth.
3. Let the strips stand for 2 minutes and serve them with the sauce.

Nutrition

Calories:

310

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

How long to cook Tyson chicken tenders, by variety

The settings differ from bag to bag. These are from Tyson's product pages, each with the note that appliances vary and the time may need adjusting.

Variety	Air fryer	Oven	Calories per 3 oz
Crispy Chicken Strips	390°F, 15 min	425°F, 22 min	200
Southern Style Tenderloins	360°F, 14 min	425°F, 20 min	180
Buffalo Style Strips	360°F, 12 min	400°F, 18 min, turned halfway	170
Honey BBQ Strips	300°F, 14 min	400°F, 18 min, turned halfway	190
Lightly Breaded Strips	360°F, 12 min	400°F, 24 min	180

For all five the direction is to heat until warm and crisp. The Lightly Breaded Strips are the only ones with a microwave direction: two strips for a minute and a half. The spicy variety is the Buffalo Style, which has a cayenne hot sauce in its ingredient list.

One product is different. The Restaurant Style Uncooked Chicken Breast Strips are raw: Tyson's oven direction is 20 minutes at 425°F, a flip and 10 minutes more, to an internal temperature of at least 165°F, and never the microwave.

Crisp from frozen

• One layer, with space between the strips. Where strips touch, they steam and stay soft.
• Straight from the freezer. Thawed breading goes soggy before it crisps.
• A rack on the baking sheet lets the oven's heat reach the underside. Without one, turn the strips once.
• No oil. The breading is already set in vegetable oil, as the ingredient list says.

Honey mustard, and other dips

The sauce in the card is equal parts honey and Dijon mustard, with mayonnaise to make it creamy. For heat, stir in 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne.

Other dips on this site are the Bell Sauce, the Fire Ranch and the Cajun honey butter.

Three meals from a bag

• Wrap: two hot strips, shredded lettuce, shredded cheddar and a spoonful of the honey mustard in a warm flour tortilla.
• Salad: three strips, sliced, over romaine with tomato, cucumber and ranch dressing.
• Chicken Parmesan: lay hot strips in a baking dish, spoon 1/2 cup of marinara sauce over them, cover with 1 cup of shredded mozzarella and bake at 425°F for 8 minutes.

Tyson's direction for leftovers is to refrigerate or discard them.

Breaded at home

Tenders made from raw chicken are a different job. The Popeyes chicken nuggets and the Taco Bell crispy chicken nuggets on this site start there.