25 Easy Baked Chicken Tenderloin Recipes

Baked chicken tenderloins are perfect for a weeknight dinner when you need an easy recipe that the whole family will eat. Pair these chicken strips with your favorite dipping sauces and air fryer onion rings or air fryer tater tots for a minimal prep meal.

🔪 Helpful Tools:

• Shallow Dish - perfect for coating raw chicken in seasoned all purpose flour and then another one to dip chicken tenders in an egg wash and then a third for the bread crumb mixture.
• Baking Sheet - a love a rimmed baking sheet when baking chicken tenderloins.
• Cooking Spray - a spritz of non stick pan spray on the baking pan will make for easy removal of the baked chicken and an even easier clean up.
• Ziploc Bag - a zip-top plastic bag is perfect for when you are marinating chicken tenders.
• Instant Read Thermometer - Be sure to make sure the internal temperature of the chicken has reached 165 degrees f. before serving.

🍗 Easy Baked Chicken Tenderloin Recipes

1. Garlic Butter Chicken Tenders

Healthier chicken tenders cooked in a simple delicious garlic butter sauce. The chicken tenderloins turn out so tender, juicy, succulent, and flavorful. A weeknight dinner ready in just 15 minutes!

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2. Marinated Baked Chicken Tenderloins

Marinated Baked Chicken Tenderloins are super easy to make, so tender and are one of those recipes that kids and adults love. The chicken marinade ingredients are simple with the minimal prep.

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3. Sweet & Spicy Sticky Chicken Tenders

You only need 5 ingredients - and 15 minutes - to make these Sweet & Spicy Sticky Chicken Tenders! Dip them in ranch dressing or honey mustard sauce for an easy appetizer or dinner!

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4. Thai Sticky Chicken Fingers

Thai Sticky Chicken Fingers are a crunchy, sticky, and irresistible gluten-free appetizer, dinner, or fun recipe for any occasion. Absolutely addicting!

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5. Spicy Baked Chicken Tenders

A wonderful Asian twist to your favorite baked chicken tenders. Chicken tenders are marinated in a sweet and spicy sauce, then baked, not fried, for a healthy and flavorful dinner everyone will love in the family.

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6. Baked Parmesan Chicken Tenders

These are great to make ahead on the weekend  and you can reheat them during the week for lunch and dinner. These Baked Parmesan Chicken Tenders are also great in a wrap or on top of a salad.

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7. Baked Ranch Chicken Tenders

Crispy, tangy and delicious, perfect for a family meal! They’re simple to make and can be made gluten free.

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8. Chicken Scampi with Garlic Parmesan Rice

A quick and easy skillet meal recipe for tender chicken scampi over perfectly cooked buttery, garlic parmesan rice.

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9. Rice Krispies Chicken Tenders Recipe {Crispy Buttermilk Fried Chicken}

Use crisped rice cereal to make some of the crispiest chicken ever. This easy chicken tenderloin recipe is an easy family dinner recipe that the kids will love! My son will dip them in barbecue sauce or my homemade hot sauce.

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10. Parmesan Ranch Baked Chicken Tenders

These are also low carb and keto chicken tenders. No flour or breadcrumbs. Baked Chicken Tenders If you’re looking for a healthier chicken tender that’s not fried, I’ve got just the recipe for you!

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11. Honey Garlic Chicken

Seared chicken tenders smothered in the most amazing sticky soy sauce! This family favorite is easy to make, it’s DELICIOUS, and can be on the table in 15 minutes. You will LOVE the sweet and garlicky sauce poured over the crispy, juicy chicken. 

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12. Crispy Baked Chicken Tenders with Hot Honey

A coating of spices and mayonnaise on these Crispy Baked Chicken Tenders keeps them juicy while breadcrumbs make them crisp in the oven.

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13. Buttermilk Chicken Tenders Recipe

These extra crispy homemade chicken tenders with buttermilk are coated with the perfect seasoning.

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14. Tender Baked Chicken Fingers with Yogurt Marinade

Dipped in yogurt and coated with deliciously seasoned Panko breadcrumbs these crispy chicken strips have an irresistible crunch! The perfect easy dinner recipe.

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15. Naked Italian Chicken Tenders

This has become one of my go-to meals for busy weekdays. It’s so light and flavorful, which makes it perfect for a hot summer day (or any other day, because it’s that good). All you

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16. Cornflake Chicken Tenders (Oven Baked Recipe)

Cornflake chicken tenders are crispy baked chicken tenders that are battered and coated with crushed cornflakes and seasoning.

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17. 20-Minute Honey Garlic Chicken Tenders

A quick and simple recipe for Honey Garlic Chicken Tenders is about to become your new favorite weeknight meal. The sweet sauce is amazing with a side of rice.

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18. Baked Chicken Tenders

Baked Chicken Tenders - incredibly crunchy, tender and flavorful baked chicken tenders coated dipped in a buttermilk mixture and coated with a well-seasoned flour and breadcrumbs.

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19. Cheez-It Chicken Tenders

Ready in 15 minutes and so CRISPY thanks to a Cheez-It Cracker coating! If you like Cheez-Its, you're going to LOVE this recipe!

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20. Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders

Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders with just five ingredients and 30 minutes these are the PERFECT game day treat! A sticky, sweet, salty, crunchy appetizer.

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21. Oven Fried Chicken Tenders

These Oven Fried Chicken Tenders are the best period! You won’t believe how I get them so crunchy and crispy just in the oven without all the fat!

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22. Almond Flour Chicken Tenders

Almond flour chicken tenders are a great option when you want to keep things low carb and healthy. Fitting every diet from paleo, whole30 and keto using almond flour is a gluten free alternative. So, dive in these juicy chicken tenders spiced to perfection!

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23. Everything Bagel Baked Chicken Tenders

This Everything Bagel Chicken Bake is a main course home-run with juicy chicken tenders, seasoned with everything bagel seasoning and crunchy panko bread crumbs.

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24. Oven-Baked Chicken Bites

Oven-Baked Chicken njuggets are pieces of boneless, skinless chicken breasts that are seasoned and baked topped with cubes of butter.

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25. Baked BBQ Chicken Tenders

These Baked BBQ Chicken Tenders are my kid’s favorite dinner dish! Seasoned, baked, and brushed with BBQ sauce. The perfect family-friendly dinner idea.

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Sarah Mock is a classically trained Chef and graduate of Johnson & Wales University. A culinary blogger for 14 years Sarah helps the home cook prepare her recipes with professional results.