Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders

4 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes

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

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

Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders

Triple this Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders recipe, I promise they’re that good. You won’t even miss the breading in most chicken strips because instead you have CRISPY BACON.

Plus its sweet and sticky and bacon-y.

Five ingredients in this Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders!

Serving ideas/Flavor ideas for your Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders:

  • Want it a bit spicier? Add in ¼ teaspoon of crushed red pepper or a squirt of Sriracha.
  • If you want an even deeper caramel flavor, try dark brown sugar.
  • Serve with ranch dressing or honey mustard for dipping sauces.
  • Have lots of paper towels to save smears from your couches as people are watching the game.
  • If you’d prefer to make this with boneless thigh meat cut the thighs in three strips.

You can also cut your chicken pieces into bite sized chunks and cook them off as bites (I am making these for the next Dodgers game and I will snap some pictures!).

Crispy, sweet, sticky and BACON. Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders

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Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders

Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders with just five ingredients and 30 minutes these are the PERFECT gameday treat! A sticky, sweet, salty, crunchy appetizer.
Yield 4 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Appetizer
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder

Ingredients
 

  • 2 chicken breasts boneless skinless
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 8 strips bacon

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • Cut each chicken breast into 4 long, thin chicken strips.
  • In a bowl add the brown sugar, salt and pepper.
  • Add the chicken tenders and toss in the brown sugar.
  • Wrap the chicken in a strip of bacon and put into your baking dish.
  • Sprinkle over the remaining brown sugar.
  • Cook for 20-25 minutes or until bacon is cooked through and crisp (as pictured).

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Nutrition

Calories: 416kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 29g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 101mg | Sodium: 720mg | Potassium: 541mg | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 50IU | Vitamin C: 1.3mg | Calcium: 28mg | Iron: 0.8mg
Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders with just five ingredients and 30 minutes these are the PERFECT gameday treat! A sticky, sweet, salty, crunchy appetizer.
The perfect treat for your game day parties! Brown Sugar Bacon Chicken Tenders!
Crispy, sweet, sticky and BACON. Bacon Brown Sugar Chicken Tenders

About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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    1. To be honest, I haven’t tested this recipe with other sweeteners. I’m hoping that a brown sugar substitute would work for you. Let me know please!

  1. I’m almost never attracted to bacon wrapped recipes but my brain had a glitch and I went for it.
    Not one iota of regret. Super easy. My chicken was well done before the bacon so I hit it with the broiler for a few minutes.

  2. We just made these ….so good!
    We cooked bacon half-way first, drained and cooled it while chicken marinated in the brown sugar mixure.
    We loved these!

    1. It’s simply the juices formed while baking brushed over the chicken to add even more flavor! Let us know what you think of the recipe 🙂

    1. Everyone who knows me well knows that I love all things bacon! Let me know how you like the recipe!

    1. I haven’t tested this recipe in an air fryer but if you do, I recommend lightly spraying the fry bin to help with the clean up!

  3. What’s not to love in these super delicious and flavorful chicken tenders? The bacon was so crispy and the chicken was so juicy. Such a winner!

  4. My kids really enjoyed these sweet chicken tenders! They were flavorful and pleasing, we can’t get enough of them.

  5. I made these delicious bundles of chicken wrapper in bacon we all loved them turn out awsome wouldn’t change a thing

  6. Made this recipe a few weeks ago, fantastic. Used a foil shishkabob tray over a cookie sheet so the chicken cooked beautifully!!

    Thank you

  7. I am going to make this recipe tomorrow sounds so yummy I hope I am not disappointed and it sounds so delicious I will post after I try them. Can’t see why it wouldn’t be anything but awesome!!

  8. I’m having to at this time get 60-70 mg daily.One piece has 29mg. Oh, I will have make this tonight.
    Thank you

  9. I make these all the time. I use a rack inside the baking pan to keep the chicken out of the grease released. I also mix a couple teaspoons of Chili Powder in with the Brown Sugar for a tad spicyness. Yum!!! Yep, and I also broil for a few minutes to crisp up the bacon. Delicious!!!!