Baked Buffalo Chicken Strips

  4.1 – 29 reviews  

a favorite on game day. rich in flavor! Serve with blue cheese or ranch dressing.

Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 25 mins
Additional Time: 1 hr
Total Time: 1 hr 55 mins
Servings: 4
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  1. 2 cups low-fat buttermilk
  2. ½ cup hot pepper sauce (such as Frank’s RedHot®)
  3. 2 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into strips
  4. 1 (8 ounce) package panko bread crumbs
  5. 1 cup liquid egg substitute (such as Egg Beaters®)
  6. cooking spray
  7. 1 dash hot pepper sauce (such as Frank’s RedHot®), or to taste

Instructions

  1. Whisk together the buttermilk and 1/2 cup hot pepper sauce in a bowl, and pour into a resealable plastic bag. Add the chicken breast strips, coat with the marinade, squeeze out excess air, and seal the bag. Marinate in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or overnight.
  2. Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet; set aside. Remove the chicken from the marinade, and shake off excess. Discard the remaining marinade.
  3. Place the panko bread crumbs and egg substitute in separate dishes. Gently press the chicken into the bread crumbs to coat and shake off the excess. Dip into the beaten egg, then press into bread crumbs again. Gently toss between your hands so any bread crumbs that haven’t stuck can fall away. Arrange the breaded chicken on the prepared baking sheet. Spray chicken strips lightly with cooking spray.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, then gently flip the chicken strips and spray with cooking spray again. Continue baking the chicken until golden brown and no longer pink in the center, about 10 minutes more. Add a dash more of the hot pepper sauce, a return to oven. Bake until the sauce dries, about 5 minutes.
  5. The nutrition data for this recipe includes the full amount of the breading ingredients. The actual amount of the breading consumed will vary.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 360 kcal
Carbohydrate 53 g
Cholesterol 38 mg
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Protein 28 g
Saturated Fat 3 g
Sodium 1390 mg
Sugars 7 g
Fat 10 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Casey Wong
I love this. I make chicken breast with Panko bread crumbs all the time but they don’t taste this good . I used chicken breast and slice them. I would make sure you put the hot sauce on toward the end like the directions. Also let chicken sit in frig for a few hours. I think that really made it taste so good. I dipped chicken in ranch dressing OMG
Kristen Tucker
This is a good recipe. Used Panko breadcrumbs for the coating, worked very well. Ran out of breadcrumbs near the end, so didn’t do the first coating – only the second, after the egg, and it didn’t turn out as well- something about the double coating really gives it a good crunch. Moist chicken! Thanks 🙂
Timothy Brennan
Made them exactly as written and they were delicious. I would have liked them to brown a bit more but they were crisp and delicious.
Michael Miller
It was delicious, I used a hot wing sauce and let it set for 48hrs, also used the whole bottle and actual chicken tenders.
Melissa Leonard
Loved it, definitely making it again the only thing I changed was the sauce to Szechuan”. Delicious
Scott Campbell
I made this for my lunches and it was simple and quite tasty.
Tamara Rice
Not happy with how these turned out. I needed way more panko to do the double dip. The bottoms were super soggy and the coating came off when I tried to turn them. I also baked them on a rack it wasn’t a good turn out. The one saving grace was the marinade. It was AWESOME.
Christopher Bailey
Made buttermilk with milk and lemon juice. Baked three bone in thighs for 45min. Used Tabasco instead of Frank’s red hot. Used Korean red spicy sauce for dipping.
Jean White
Unless your chicken breasts are turkey sized this is a huge amount of marinade/crumbs. My review is for the marinade since I didn’t have panko or the egg sub. I had 6 chicken breasts and buttermilk that needed to be used. I absolutely love this marinade and will use it often. I used a combo of seasoned bread crumbs, parm and instant potato flakes with added garlic and black pepper. I’ve never been a fan of the double egg dipping so I left that out and just now realized that I forgot the added hot sauce at the end. I also cooked them on a rack and I used a lot of Franks in the buttermilk and could totally taste it on the chicken. Great marinade!
Alexis Hernandez
The buttermilk soak made this so tender! We really loved this and will add it to our regular meal plan. A healthy alternative to processed or fried chicken fingers. Thanks for sharing.
Courtney Dickson
These were really good. Placed on a well sprayed rack placed on a cookie sheet Did not have to turn them. No problem with them sticking. Cicken was juicy and delishious.
Ann Roy
these didn’t turn out for me – didn’t like at all!
James Clayton
These were great! I took the advice of another reviewer and cooked them on a cooling rack. I did not flip them, they were done in 20 minutes, and very little of the breading came off when I took them off the rack. I also used far less marinade than what the recipe called for. Will definitely make them again.
Kevin Smith
I tried this both baked and fried. They both taste great, but the fried do look more appetizing. I did reduce the buttermilk, but also added some of the marinade mixture to the eggs. And frying in coconut oil is wonderful.
Glenn Sellers
Very good, but prodices more than enough marinade and coating for at least 4 chicken breasts (that’s what I did, for a total of 40 good-sized strips). I did not have egg substitute so I just used regular beaten eggs. I also cooked slightly longer. If you use a decent amount of spray and a gentle hand you won’t lose much breading. I also tried the marinade on quartered and butterflied breasts; I patted them with a paper towel to remove the excess marinade, dredged lightly in a flour mixture (with salt, pepper, and garlic powder; no egg necessary) and fried up to make chicken sandwiches. Quite good but would probably be even tastier if the marinade was spicier, like half buttermilk and half hot sauce.
Charlene Chase
Delicious! Mine came out crispy & juicy!
Nicholas Hernandez
I just made this and it got a thumbs up from my wing loving kid! I used a tip from another recipe on the site that I saw. I placed a cookie cooling rack on the baking sheet, sprayed the rack liberally with Pam and baked the strips directly on the rack and they were crisp on both sides and barely lost any breading. With 5 min left in the cook time, I drizzled buffalo sauce on half of them for my family that likes it hot. The remainder, with out the added sauce were great too. I used 3 huge breast cut into large strips. Definitely plenty of marinade and breading for more chicken. This is a keeper for my recipe box!!
Jonathan Robinson
I baked these as directed then added the extra hot sauce when I reheated on the grill for dinner. They were plenty crunchy after baking and I lost very little breading using non-stick foil. I agree that it’s more marinade than necessary so I didn’t really measure, just mixed up enough to cover the chicken and marinated over night. They smelled and tasted like the hot sauce but the flavor was a little on the subtle side prior to adding the “dashes”. I have never used this double dip technique so it may be my fault but a lot of panko fell off in the egg. I ended up dabbing some on and then patting on more panko rather than dipping in egg. Messy process, but they turned out very good and I will definitely try them again.
David Chavez
Hey everyone – this is my recipe, But a few things seem to be changed by Allrecipes since it was published. I do a few things differently. 1) Do not place the full amount of bread crumbs or egg substitute out at once. I start with small amounts and replenish as needed. It minimizes the amount of waste. 2) I also spray with cooking spray pretty generously. I don’t leave them swimming in it, but if you use too light of a hand, you have a higher chance of the breading falling off. 3) You do have to REALLY spray the baking sheet to less breading sticks to it. I am very gentle when I turn them, but you will typically lose some breading. I don’t tend to lose a lot though. 4) When they are done cooking, I put buffalo sauce in a bowl and literally coat them in it. This really gives them true wing flavor. That said, it also makes them pretty spicy. If you don’t like as much heat, a dash works fine. I then return them to the over to bake for the 5 minutes indicated. Play with the recipe and see what works for you. I was just happy to have a non-fried alternative that had some crunch to it. Happy cooking!
Morgan Carr
Followed directions “verbatim” and for the most part the family enjoyed the taste and texture of the chicken strips. However, I could not get the crispy texture to the coating without drying out the chicken. Also, my chicken strips got “nekid” a couple of times. Very embarrassing. I will look for alternative. To much an amateur for this receipt.
Julie Byrd
With the exception of using chicken tenders, I followed the recipe exactly. Even though I sprayed the pan, the breading stuck and when I flipped the tenders they came up naked. The chicken did not pick up the hot sauce flavoring at all. Overall, this was a disappointment.

 

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