Oven-baked chicken tenders, adapted from Taste, spiced up with a crunchy Middle Eastern spice blend of toasted, coarsely ground hazelnuts, sesame, and spices. You can serve them with a sweet-sour sauce of honey and balsamic vinegar or on a bed of salad of choice.
Originally from Egypt, dukkah is a mixture of nuts (hazelnuts, almonds or pistachios), seeds and spices. The traditional way to serve fragrant Dukkah is with olive oil and bread – dunk the bread in olive oil, then the dukkah. You can also use for a crust on lamb or fish.
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- Preheat oven to 180C/350F. Spread the hazelnuts over a baking tray and cook in preheated oven for 3-4 minutes or until toasted. Rub the hazelnuts between a clean tea towel to remove as much skin as possible. Place the toasted hazelnuts in the bowl of a food processor and process until coarsely chopped. Transfer to a large bowl.
- Heat a medium frying pan over medium heat. Add the sesame seeds and cook, stirring, for 1-2 minutes or until golden. Add to the bowl with the hazelnuts.
- Place coriander, cumin seeds and black peppercorns in a dry frying pan over medium heat, and cook, stirring frequently, for 1-2 minutes or until aromatic and seeds begin to pop. Transfer seeds to a mortar and pestle with sea salt. Pound until finely crushed. Add the crushed spices to the hazelnut mixture and mix well.
- Place chicken tenders on a plate. Coat both sides with hazelnut dukkah. Place them on a baking pan. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Bake at 190C/375F for 18-20 minutes or until golden and cooked through.
- Place the lentils in a medium saucepan and cover with cold water. Set the saucepan over medium-high heat, bring to a boil and cook until they are just barely tender and still quite red, about 2 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water to halt the cooking process. Shake out all excess water, and then put the red lentils into a large bowl.
- Cook the broccoli in a large saucepan of boiling water for 3-4 minutes or until bright green and tender crisp. Refresh under cold running water. Drain and add to the lentils in the bowl.
- Whisk together the honey, red wine vinegar and the remaining olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Add the dressing, red onion and grape tomatoes to the lentils and broccoli. Toss to combine. Transfer salad to the serving plates and top with dukkah coated chicken tenders.
90 comments:
I get an education, as well as plenty of inspiration, every time I visit here, Angie. Nut crusts are one of my obsessions, but I've never heard of this one. I'd love to try it on fish!
I love the crust on your chicken- so many flavors and so much crunch! The lentil salad is gorgeous as well- a perfect meal! :)
A perfect meal. Looks delicious. Beautiful flavours. Love it :)
This is such a nice meal that my family would love it!
I am just droooollllling here... So crunchy n yummy
Angie , the spices alone sounds delicious ! And looking at those crunchy chicken tenders , who would have thought that it's baked not fried ?! Into my mouth now lol
I ALWAYS have dukkah in a jar...so many different uses for it! My favourite is freshly prepared dukkah, warm (homemade) bread and olive oil - divine!
Oh wow! Such a delicious meal! Your homemade dukkah sounds good!
So scrumptious anf tasty! A great dish.
Cheers,
Rosa
Great meal! I especially like the chicken!
Whoa... that looks super delicious, Angie. You are amazingly creative with food ingredients! I have a lot to learn! ^.^
Wow! Wow! this is perfect dish to me!!!!
Gorgeous Angie. This is quickly become my favorite salad.
Sam
Your dukkah sounds wonderful, Angie. I can see it coating lots of things. Serving the chicken over the lentil salad is perfect. Love lentil salads!
I always learn something new with your recipes Angie. Love the sound of duke - I wonder if you could coat tofu too. Yum with the bread and oil - I could live on that! Have a wonderful week.
Looks fantastic! Such a beautifully composed dish!
What a delicious meal. Love the dukkah spices!
Angie, the meal looks fabulous! I am sooooo sold! Delicious!
I baked chicken a lot and love it. Your spiced crust with the hazelnuts sound awesome! The lentil salad is right up my alley, too!
wow, damn deliicous!!!
i just grab a pack of chicken tender and gonna try this recipe a.s.a.p
Dedy@Dentist Chef
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Your dukkah crust sounds terrific. I'd love to try this recipe!
I just learned about Dukkah on Chop, the FoodNetwork show. I must look for it in our Whole Foods, XOXO
This chicken looks wonderful, love the dukkah crust! A perfect lunch on top of the lentil salad!
This looks so pretty and delicious, Angie! I love the spices and hazelnuts on the crust, so flavorful and looks perfect with the lentil and broccoli salad!
Angie, the crust on these tenders looks amazing! Love that you served them over a broccoli salad---sounds like a perfect dinner to me!
I love dukkah! What a great use of this mix.
I am totally sold on this recipe, I love Middle Eastern flavors! And I am in love with dukkah, got to give this a try soon!
I love the salad. The chicken tenders look very tasty😊
love the crust!!! looks outstanding!
This looks so fresh and tasty!! Your food photography always blows me away! <3 - www.domesticgeekgirl.com
This looks LUSH, so crispy and full of flavours, love this! Making this this week :)
Wonderful recipe Angie! This really must be so good. I love your photos too. This is good for any day of the week. Have a good day!
You had me at dukkah! It's one of my favorite ever spice blends!
WOW! Love the flavors and textures!
Love these chicken tender Angie!
Look georgeous and delicious!
Angie - what a fabulously flavored chicken - love your combo of hazelnut and all those spices!
I love that crunchy coating you have on the chicken! The best! This looks wonderful.
I feel like I've been reading about Dukkah a lot lately. I guess that just means I'm going to hve to try it soon!
I love everything about this, Angie. Being a huge fan of nuts and seeds I know I would love the duddah coating. Great idea!
The chicken looks so crunchy and yummy. Wish I could take a bite!
Like that this crust is gluten free.
This is absolutely the most scrumptious chicken tenders we have seen, Angie! Mmm, your crunchy dukkah would be so wonderful with lamb :)
simply a beautiful creation! well made
Have never heard of dukhah. What an interesting combination of ingredients and what a clever way to use them. I love adding a crunchy ingredient to salads and with your crunchy chicken you get the crunch and the protein. What a salad Angie!
I love the idea of using dukkah as a crust - I have some in my pantry so am going to try this for sure. I also really like your lentil salad - what a nice healthy and delicious meal!
This is really interesting, but delicious way to make chicken. I love the salad too... I can see how they could complement each other harmoniously! Beautiful!
This is a delicious and balanced meal and I like the Middle-Eastern twist to it with the dukkah-crusted chicken.
This looks just fantastic. The crust on that chicken is superb. I wish I could dig my teeth into those chicken tenders. Great presentation of this dish!
What an awesome coating for the chicken tenders...I love everything about it...I have a container of dukkah from Trader Joe's but yet have to use it...and your recipe just came handy...thanks for the recipe Angie...
Have a wonderful week ahead :)
I am so getting into dukkah! Can't wait to try your version! Sounds great!
the oven baked chicken tender looks so delicious with that golden crust!!!!
Mouthwatering yummy chicken
the crunchy coating for your chicken sounds absolutely wonderful! what an excellent mix of flavors.
This looks absolutely fabulous!! Pinning this to make soon! Love the crust!
I love the crust on the chicken! Looks so tasty! Love chicken, pinning for later!
looks super delicious..loved the crust...
I'm always amazed for your beautiful photographs! This is a great recipe I would like to re-create!
This looks INCREDIBLE!
I sooooooooo want to devour these immediately. xx
great job getting them so crispy and flavorful i love that you dusted them first. It looks delicious especially with that refreshing salad of veggies
You have taken chicken tenders and brought them to a new healthy level. Very nice!
Velva
These chicken tenders look delicious. I love how you keep everything healthy and delicious.
Angie, you are making me so hungry now!
Wow, Angie...I've not tried dukkah before but can't wait to make some. Sounds like a wonderful combination of nuts and spices. And coating your chicken tenders with it makes them seem 'all grown up'! Thanks for teaching me something new every time I visit! : )
What a colorful and tasty dish!!.....Abrazotes, Marcela
This is a great recipe, really tasty and original. GG
This looks fabulous, Angie. Actually, I have a friend coming over on Saturday night, and I think this looks like the perfect meal to make for her. Thanks for the inspiration :-)
Dear Angie, Such a beakutiful chicken meal. I love the tenders and the salad is perfect. xoxo Catherine
I'm seeing dukkah everywhere and I must try this spice blend! This sounds like the perfect recipe to appreciate it. Love that these chicken tenders are oven baked too (mostly because I don't like the mess/danger involved with frying! :) beautiful Angie.
I am inspired. They are the healthiest yummiest chicken tenders I've seen in a while. The coating looks so crispy and perfect. I just learnt what dukkah is. Your blogs teaches new things everytime.
I love the spices that you used in the recipe. I can imagine how flavorful and crunchy they are. Love that they are oven baked, too. ;)
That is a beautiful, nutritious, delicious dish. Lovely presentation Angie :)
Lovely nut crust, Angie! It would work so well for just about anything I'm sure, but it sure does make the venerable old chicken tender look much more appetizing!
I wonder if this would work with tofu as it does look really good :D
@Emma @ Bake Then Eat I am very sure tofu will work great too.
Ohh!! I love dukkah. Hadn't thought about using it this way. I'll certainly be making this recipe. Thanks Angie. You've done it again.
Gina
I love every component of this meal Angie, looks delicious!
Those look like the best baked chicken I've ever seen. And I've been wanting to try dukkah for ages now. Superb!
Angie, I learn something new every time I visit your blog! I've never heard of dukkah, but it sounds like something I need to make and have on hand at all times!
Hi Angie,
Wow! This is fabulous!
I love the crust and the color, must be so delicious!
mui
I love the fullness of the crust. I also use nuts for breading and everyone likes it.
I somehow missed this one... it looks and sounds incredible!
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