And I’m really jealous of my friend Merri who is going to a pre-screening tonight at 8 p.m.
Check out her festive nails for the occasion!
Please report back with your thoughts!
Dinner
Dinner tonight hit the spot.
Chicken fingers + Sweet potato wedges + broccoli
Truth be told, this dinner was born out of a craving for ketchup! I really don’t like ketchup by itself (bleh!) but looove it on burgers and hot dogs. It’s also perhaps my favorite condiment for chicken finger dippin’!
These chicken fingers were healthier than most, as I baked them rather than frying them in oil.
Baked Chicken Fingers
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 8 chicken fingers 1x
- Category: dinner, recipes
Description
These chicken fingers are healthier than most, as I baked them rather than frying them in oil.
Ingredients
- 8 chicken tenders
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 2/3 cup breadcrumbs
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Combine breadcrumbs, paprika and salt in a shallow dish. Pour eggs into another shallow dish.
- Dredge chicken tenders in eggs and then immediately roll in breadcrumbs.
- Place chicken fingers on a baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray and bake for approximately 15 minutes or until chicken is completely cooked in the middle.
- Serve with ketchup, honey mustard or your favorite dipping sauce.
Yum!
Ryan and I both said these were great, but I think my favorite chicken fingers are the ones I make with Italian breadcrumbs. Mmm!
After dinner, Ryan and I took Sadie on an hour-long walk. It’s absolutely beautiful outside right now!
When we arrived home, I dug into one of these little babies…
Recipe coming your way soon!
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I’m hoping to see it this weekend! I hope no one gives too much of the movie away tomorrow, though I guess I have read the book 🙂
Your dinner looks awesome 🙂
Looks yummy! I make similar ones but withstand flour! I’m a bit behind on the Games, I haven’t read any of the books yet. . .
Oat flour***
I’m really excited to see the hunger games. I am actually a manager at a movie theatre and people are going crazy over it. I know a couple of my co-workers watched it yesterday and said it was fantastic! Thinking I will check it out this weekend 🙂
Ooh, yum, that dinner looks fantastic! I could go for some chicken fingers right now. An hour-long walk after dinner sounds so nice 🙂
Oh I cannot WAIT to go see the Hunger Games tomorrow night. My husband is out of town, and I can’t find anyone to go with me, so I’m going solo! Pathetic, yet…awesome?!? 🙂
Going to the movies solo is NOT pathetic.
I’ve made some that are very similar, but the ones I made and a few more different spices. Love these though! So delicious and addicting!
oh my gosh. Chicken tenders are one of my favorite foods, I love them with honey mustard. Sadly I can’t order them anymore because the breading has gluten. I need to make some myself! And I am SO JEALOUS of everyone going to see the hunger games tonight!
Okay, am I the only person who is NOT into the Hunger Games? I feel like it’s Twilight all over again, and I’m the only one that didn’t read the books.
I am much more interested in your dinner. 🙂
Lauren, I was reticent for exactly the same reason. I was wholly unimpressed with the Twilight series (both the books and the movies – YUCK! And was only mildly interested in Harry Potter – I thought it was just a Lord of the Rings for kids )… but you really should read the books.
While there is obviously a ton of hype (which usually makes me wary and less interested) , it is pretty well justified in this case. The series very well written, and the heroine is portrayed as both very capable and intelligent — instead of just generally useless — and the plot is highly intriguing.
This is one instance where I say, don’t pass judgment on the hype before you give it a chance. It is really worth it. May the odds be ever in your favor! 😉
I am loving your take on chicken fingers! I have used a similar recipe to bake fish with, but hadn’t thought of chicken, yum!
How did you cook your sweet potatoes? I love to eat them and am always looking for new ways to fix them. Thanks!
i chopped the potato into wedges, tossed it in a bit of olive oil and salt and baked it at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes. 🙂 easy and delicious!
I am SO excited for the hunger games!! Hoping to see it with a friend this weekend 🙂
I do something similar with chicken fingers, except I heat up a pan with a little olive oil, put the chicken in there to brown on both sides a little, and then finish them up in the oven. So yummy!! And I love dipping them in ketchup, too. Or BBQ sace, or honey mustard …. 😉
Lovin’ the look of those chicken fingers! I prefer them baked than fried, personally 🙂 and your friend’s nails made me laugh – that’s dedication!
As kids, we always, always ate our chicken fingers with honey! I don’t know what got us started on that exactly, but I haven’t had it that way since I was about 9… I may have to give it another go!
Chicken fingers are the perfect vehicle for ketchup!
This dinner looks fantastic!
I laughed when I saw this post because my dinner was inspired by a craving for ketchup, too! Baked carrot fries… yum! Now I definitely want to try these chicken fingers!
Love the nails!!
My dinner was condiment driven too.. I was craving some honey mustard! Those hunger games nails are awesome. Did she do them herself or explain at the salon that she wanted hunger game nails:) bet it isn’t an everyday request.
Those chicken fingers look really good! I made scrambled eggs tonight so I could dip them in ketchup!
I can’t wait to see the movie, but I am too old for midnight showings.
i was literally just searching for chicken breast recipes for dinner tonight…think ill make this! thanks!!
btw, ive never read hunger games..but i think tonights the night i download it on kindle. apparently people like it? hah
I cannot wait to see the movie! Maybe tomorrow night or Saturday.
My husband is just as excited about The Hunger Games as I am…and we NEVER agree on movies.
Friends used to make fun of me for dipping my chicken fingers in ketchup. Thank you for making me feel normal! I usually switch from ketchup to dipping them in honey. I’m five years old, apparently.
I love Merri’s nails!!!!! DISTRICT 12 all the way. I just finished the Hunger Game’s last night (all 320 something pages of it) since my friends told me that I wouldn’t be allowed to go to the premier if I didn’t finish it. Lucky thing I did, I am in LOVE.
Baked breaded chicken is a go-to dinner for me! So tasty! Can’t wait to hear about the recipe 🙂
I love chicken fingers but never eat them because they are fried! Baking them is a great idea, I’ll have to try it soon! 🙂
Those nails are insane! That is a true hunger games fan, in my opinion. haha.
And I LOVE ketchup. I frequently base my meals around it…no shame. (:
That looks like the perfect dinner!! I’m the same way with bbq sauce. I swear I make tofu just to be able to slather it with my favorite sauce.
“Hunger Games” was awesome! I just saw it at apre-screening!
I make baked chicken nuggets for my daughter (and my husband and me too). They are so much better than any fried ones! That is actually a meal I somehow forgot about (happens to me alot, which is one reason I started a blog to keep track!). They will be on the menu for this weekend, thanks!
I can’t wait to see the Hunger Games, but I’m going to wait until next weekend. I CAN’T STAND a packed theater 😉
I’m with YOU! The only thing that can beat my love for HG is my hatred for packed movie theaters haha! So unfortunately the movie will have to wait…
Same here! I’m waiting until the crowds thin out.
I am SO EXCITED to see the Hunger Games… Eee!!!
Looks yum, another great coater is oats! I am probably the only person in the world who is going to see Hunger Games with NO exceptions having not read the book!
The movie was fantastic! There were a few changes from the book (aren’t there always?!), but overall I loved it and can’t wait to go again!
At first glance, I thought those were your awesome nails, with the hunger games tix! They are still awesome btw! =] I am sOOOo excited to see this movie! xoxo =]
The movie was AWESOME! I cried 4 separate times during the first 30 minutes. As much as I love Harry Potter, I really wish they had stayed as true to the book as this movie did. (things were left out obviously, but at least the things they added in weren’t as egregious!)
Yes, every recipie including oats is very appriciated!
I love baked chicken fingers! I never make them though for some reason. Definitely going to have to change that. 🙂
I am so excited, my library finally came in with the Hunger Games book I put on reserve! I’m hoping to read the entire book asap so I can see the movie. Yay! 🙂
I neeeeeeed to read the book!
Love the recipe! Can’t wait for the other one 🙂
Mmmm you’re making me want to roast up some sweet potatoes for lunch!
Those nails are so awesome!! Can’t wait to see the movie. I’m waiting a few weeks so all the stinky kids can get it out of their system (and out of the theatres)! Terrible I know 🙂
Haha, I def have made dinners based on the sauce I’m craving… Teriyaki = chicken teriyaki and rice or honey mustard = chicken fingers!
P.S. I’m seeing HG on Sunday with some gf’s but have no clue what to expect since I didn’t read the book- but I’m expecting it to be just as crazy as it was for Harry Potter and Twilight 😛
This dinner looks great! I have some almond flour I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with. Wondering if I could use it instead of the breadcrumbs on the chicken? Ketchup might be a little gross for the dinner but I could probably do a honey mustard?
Hahaha – nice post JB! The movie was AWESOME. I do wonder what it would be like to see the movie without reading the book though and wonder if I would catch all the nuances.
That dinner looks great. I love ketchup so much my boyfriend always asks me “do you want fries with that ketchup?”
Hunger Games did not disappoint! I was jealous of everyone going at midnight too then at last second my boyfriend won tickets (an hour before the show). It was awesome!
I must disagree with many of the previous comments about the movie. I did not like it, did not like the changes they made (omissions and additions), and was disappointed so much that I vowed at the end never to see another movie that was adapted from a book.
The cinematography was fabulous but the screenplay was seriously lacking. The movie failed to capture the pervasive desperation in the districts, Katniss’s distrust of everyone around her, the government’s cruelty and inhumanity, and provided so little character development that you did not really care about their survival.
So, the costumes, set, and locations were awesome–a lot of it closely matched what I had envisioned when reading the books, but the gem of the book–Katniss’s internal dialogue and revelations–failed to translate onto the big screen.
saw it last night at midnight! it’s only one of 3 movies that i’ve ever had a desire to go see at a midnight showing. it was excellent! very true to the book and of course it is so much better than twilight because suzanne collins is a talented writer, unlike stephanie meyer (IMO). everything in the movie matched what i envisioned in my brain as i read the books. what i couldn’t get over is how many parents had young children (age 8-10) there. teenagers/children are killing each other in this movie. while it’s not exceptionally graphic compared to other movies, it’s disturbing. the kids are fighting in an organized death match.
I was one of those kids who LOVED ketchup! I ate it with bread (french baguettes, even!), with eggs, and right out of the packets!
The movie was AMAAAAZZZZINGG! I went to the midnight premier =D It was well worth getting home at 3am haha.