Puritan Backroom–Style Chicken Tenders

Name: Puritan Backroom–Style Chicken Tenders
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 cup, water; 1/2 cup duck, sauce; , Salt and pepper; 2 pounds, chicken tenderloins, trimmed; 1 3/4 cups, all-purpose flour; 1/4 cup, cornstarch; 2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1 1/2 teaspoons, garlic powder; 1/4 teaspoon, cayenne pepper; 3 quarts, peanut or vegetable oil

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2018

Main Courses

Chicken

SERVES4

TIME45 minutes, plus 1 hour marinating

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The chicken tenders served at the Puritan Backroom in Manchester, New Hampshire, are hard to resist: crunchy on the outside and almost impossibly juicy, mildly sweet, and deeply seasoned throughout. (Read about our visit here.) To replicate...

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