Name: Chicken Fire Poppers Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 eggs; ½ tsp garlic powder; ½ tsp onion powder; 1 lb Chicken Tenders; 1½ cups panko bread crumbs; canola oil for frying; ½ cup sugar; ½ cup brown sugar; ½ cup honey; ⅓ cup Frank's hot sauce

Chicken Fire Poppers Recipe

Regina Flores Modified: November 12, 2023

How To Make Chicken Fire Poppers

Tender slices of chicken are breaded and fried before being baked in a sweet and spicy honey sauce to make these amazing chicken fire poppers.

Preparation: 15 minutes

Cooking: 30 minutes

Total: 45 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

2eggs
½tspgarlic powder
½tsponion powder
1lbchicken tenders,cut into 1-2-inch pieces
1½cupspanko bread crumbs
canola oil for frying
½cupsugar
½cupbrown sugar
½cuphoney
⅓cupFrank’s hot sauce

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In a small bowl, beat the eggs with the garlic powder and onion powder.
In a second bowl add the panko crumbs.
Dip the chicken in the egg mixture, then coat with the panko crumbs.
In a large skillet, heat about ½ inch of canola oil over medium-high heat.
Fry the chicken on both sides for 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until golden and crispy.
Put the pieces into a 9 by 13-inch baking pan.
In a bowl, combine the sugar, brown sugar, honey and hot sauce and mix to combine.
Pour the sauce over the fried chicken and carefully stir to make sure it is coated.
Bake the chicken, covered, for 15 minutes
Remove the chicken from the pan, and with a spatula to scrape out the sticky sauce, pour the sauce over the plate of chicken.