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I know super long blog post title but this little recipe is packed with so much flavor I couldn’t leave one little bit out!! Are you looking for a way to dress up boring chicken strips? Want a meal that is done in a little over 30 minuets that uses just a few ingredients?? This recipe for Sweet Chili Ranch Chicken Strips with Apricot Sweet Chili Dipping Sauce is just the recipe for you!
I love Ranch Dressing it is one of my favorite dressings so when I learned about the new flavors Hidden Valley had released I had to find out what they were all about! Off to my favorite Fry’s store I went!
I have to tell you Fry’s is one of my favorite grocery stores. Fry’s always has what I need, is clean and everyone there is so helpful!
Look at all these new Hidden Valley Ranch flavors! Yum!
Look one with BACON!! How delicious is that?? I found the Hidden Valley Sweet Chili flavor and into my basket it went! This bad boy is coming home with mama! I have plans for it!
I grabbed a few more groceries one being the apricot preserves needed to accompany the Sweet Chili Chicken Strips! We will get to that later! I love this dressing it is exactly what the name describes it to be sweet and spicy with a little kick of some heat! I love heat!
Now you can use chicken tenderloins for this recipe but what I did was just cut my boneless skinless chicken breasts into strips that were close to the same size. This made the chicken strips a bit bigger than using tenderloins and because they were a bit bigger they did not dry out!
Next all you do is add your chicken and about 3/4 c. of the Hidden Valley Sweet Chili Ranch Dressing into a zipper lock plastic bag, place in your fridge, and let the chicken marinate in the dressing for about an hour . I actually left mine in until the next day and they were fine!
Once the chicken is marinated you take it out and dredge it in spices and panko bread crumbs and bake in the oven! That is it easy peasy!
Now the dipping sauce is pretty tasty too. I even like to dip veggies in it!
Ingredients
Method
- Place chicken strips and 3/4 c Sweet Chili dressing in plastic zipper bag. Mix so chicken is completely coated with dressing. Place in fridge to marinade for at least an hour and up to 24 hours.
- When ready to cook chicken remove from fridge. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. In a separate plastic zipper bag place Panko bread crumbs, paprika, onion salt and seasoned salt mix well. Carefully remove one chicken strip at a time from marinade and place in bread crumb bag and coat well with bread crumbs. Place on baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray. Repeat until all chicken strips are coated. Place baking tray in oven and bake for 30 minuets.
- While chicken strips are baking prepare dipping sauce by combining all dipping sauce ingredients in a small bowl and mix until combined.
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This would be perfect as a make ahead meal for a picnic dinner at the beach! Can’t wait to pick up some Hidden Valley Ranch and give this a try! #client
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