Creamy Honey Mustard Chicken Tenders

Creamy Honey mustard Chicken Tender Recipe

Chicken tenders are always easy and quick to cook. If you love it crispy then make these fried chicken tenders or make Honey Mustard chicken tenders recipe are just perfect for dinner. The honey mustard sauce is creamy, sweet and hint of pungent flavour from mustard. It is beautifully balanced, rich and finger licking good.

What are Chicken Tenders?

As the name says, chicken tenders are the most tender part of the chicken. These are not same as chicken breast. Chicken tenders are the part underneath Chicken breast and attached to it. So each chicken has two tenders. Tenders are realy quick to cook, even faster than chicken breast. They come in thin strips/filets, so no need of cutting. You can use as it it. You will easily find chicken tenders sold in your local store. So in your next visit, grab a packet of chicken tenders and make this honey mustard chicken tender recipe.

Ingredients you need

Chicken tenders- Use fresh or frozen. If frozen bring it to room temeperature. You can also use thin strips of chicken breast instead. Flour – All purpose flour to coat the tenders. Butter and Oil- Shallots- Finley minced shallots. You can also skip it, if you prefer. Garlic- Fresh minced garlic. Chicken stock – Substitute with vegetable stock. Heavy Cream – For a rich creamy sauce. don’t substitute it with low fat cream or half and half Whole grain Mustard, Dijon Mustard– two types of mustrad for a robust mustard flavour. Whole grain mustard also give some texture. Honey– to balance the pungentness of mustard. Rosemary – For some reason i feel rosemary is one of those herbs that compliments all the flavours in the honey mustard sauce.

Steps to make Chicken Tenders in a creamy Honey Mustard Sauce

Start with coating chicken tenders with flour mixture. Then cook on both the sides in butter until crispy and nice crust is formed. Because of the crust, the sauce clings better. The flour coating need not be thick, else the extra flour would go into the sauce and make it thick. To make Honey Mustard Sauce To the sauce saute garlic and shallots in butter until soft and aromatic. Then to the pan add stock, dijon mustard, whole mustard, Honey, rosemary. Mix well. Then lower the heat, slowly whishk the heavy cream. Let it simmer for 2-3 minutes. Then add cooked chicken tenders, simmer for another 2 minutes. And Honey Mustard Chicken Tender is ready to serve.