Air Fryer Chicken Tenders
Super fast, super delicious and way better than any fast food chicken tenders! All made healthier in your air fryer and with all grain free, gluten free and dairy free ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2-2 lbs. boneless, skinless chicken breasts or tenders
- coconut or avocado oil spray
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup arrowroot
- 3/4 tsp. paprika
- 3/4 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- 3/4 tsp. sea salt
- 1/2 tsp. celery salt
- 1/2 tsp. onion powder
- 1/2 tsp. ground mustard
- 1/2 tsp. dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
Instructions
- Clean chicken of any fat, veins, tendons, etc. Cut into strips or desired sized pieces
- Add egg to a shallow baking pan or plate and beat well. Add chicken pieces and toss all around to coat each piece completely in egg.
- To another shallow baking dish or plate, add all of the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Preheat air fryer to 400 degrees and set it for 10 minutes.
- While it is preheating, begin breading your chicken by coating each piece thoroughly in the dry ingredients and tapping off any excess.
- Once preheated, spray the fry basket with your oil spray and lay in as many tenders as you can without them touching. Spray the chicken with the oil spray as well.
- Turn each piece over when your air fryer instructs you to do so. If there are any dry looking areas, use a little more oil spray.
- When chicken is done, remove to a serving plate or tray and cook the remaining chicken.
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Notes
If you're making a big batch, you may want to heat your oven to around 250 degrees and keep the chicken in the oven to keep warm while you cook the rest. I usually make enough chicken for two batches for my family of four and it goes so quickly that I don't always bother heating up the oven. The first batch to come out of the air fryer just won't be piping hot when we're ready to eat, which is actually ideal if you're serving these to children.
This recipe is easily scaled up or down. The dry ingredients in the amounts listed should easily cover up to two pounds of chicken. If you're doing way less than that, cut everything back by half. Conversely, if you're serving a large family, want lots of leftovers or want to batch cook and freeze some, just double everything.
For reheating leftovers, I highly recommend you reheat these tenders in the air fryer. I usually reheat foods at 350 for 4-5 minutes. You want a lower heat because you're not actually cooking the food, just heating it through and crisping up the coating.