Pretzel Crusted Buffalo Chicken Tender Salad
This salad is the perfect combination of cool & creamy and hot & spicy! Pretzel Crusted Buffalo Chicken Tender Salad will make for an excellent lunch or dinner any time of year.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings/2 tenders each 1x
- Category: dinner
- Method: pan-frying
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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For the Pretzel Crusted Buffalo Chicken Tenders
- 1 large bag of salted thin pretzels
- 1 pound chicken tenders
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/3 cup buffalo sauce
For the Blue Cheese Dressing
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup crumbly blue cheese
- 1/4 teaspoon Worcester sauce
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 tablespoons water
For the Salad
- 3 heads of romaine lettuce - washed & roughly chopped
- Cherry tomatoes - halved
- Red onion - thinly sliced
Instructions
Pretzel Crusted Buffalo Chicken Tenders
- Make the pretzel crumbs. Using either a food processor or a blender, pulse the pretzels until they are a combination of fine and course crumbs. You will need 1 cup of pretzel crumbs.
- Sprinkle the salt, pepper and garlic powder on both sides of the chicken tenders.
- Set up the breading station. Put the all purpose flour on a large plate. Beat both eggs in a medium-sized shallow bowl. Put the 1 cup of pretzel crumbs on a large plate.
- Bread all chicken tenders by first dredging the chicken tenders in the flour. Then dip them in the eggs. Lastly, press both sides of the chicken tenders into the pretzel crumbs.
- Heat a large frying pan over low/medium-low heat coated in olive oil. Add the chicken tenders to the frying pan. Do not over crowd the pan. You may need to repeat the frying process 2-3 times. Fry the chicken tenders for 5 minutes per side, 10 minutes total, or until done. Chicken should be cooked to 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
- After frying, drizzle the pretzel crusted chicken tenders with the 1/3 cup of buffalo sauce.
Blue Cheese Dressing
- Mix all ingredients for the dressing together in a medium sized mixing bowl.
Assemble the salad
- Mix the romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes and red onion together in salad bowl. Top the salads with the buffalo chicken tenders and the blue cheese dressing. Enjoy!
Notes
- You can serve this "family style" in a large bowl or on individual salad plates.
- Add as many cherry tomatoes and sliced red onion to your salad as you prefer.
- Make this recipe gluten free by substituting in gluten free all purpose flour and gluten free pretzels. Also make sure that all other ingredients used for the blue cheese dressing are gluten free.