Chili's Honey-Chipotle Chicken Crispers

This is something my son loves to order at Chili's and I haven't made it for a while.  I got the recipe from food.com and it is A-Mazing!!!  It is the perfect combination of sweet and heat in that yummy chipotle sort of way...

Here is what you will need... I took separate pictures of the ingredients for the wet and dry parts of the recipe

For the...

Honey-Chipotle Sauce

2/3 cup of honey

1/4 cup of water

1/4 cup of ketchup

1 tablespoon of white vinegar

2 teaspoons group chipotle chile pepper

1/2 teaspoon salt

Batter:

1 egg

1/2 cup of whole milk or heavy whipping cream

1/2 cup chicken broth

1 1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

1/4 teaspoon paprika

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder or garlic salt

3/4 cup flour

Breading:

1 1/2 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

3/4 teaspoon paprika

1/2 teaspoon black papper

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder or garlic salt

Chicken tenders

6 cups of vegetable shortening or oil for frying

Don't get overwhelmed by the ingredients, this is very easy.  I just separated the different parts into different pictures.  Okay, let's get started.

Start by heating your oil in the deep fryer to 350 degrees.  If you don't have a deep fryer you can cook them in a deep pan with the oil on the stove top.

Next, we will get the batter together

Crack your egg into a large bowl.

Add 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream (or milk).

Then add 1/2 cup of chicken broth.

1 1/2 teaspoons of salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

1/4 teaspoon paprika

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder or garlic salt

Whisk for about 30 seconds

Then whisk in 3/4 cup of flour. 

Set aside.

Now for the Breading...

In a large shallow dish that you will use to bread the chicken breast...

Add 1 1/2 cups of flour

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

3/4 teaspoons paprika

1/2 teaspoon black papper

And then 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt and whisk ingredients together.

When you are ready to fry the chicken, dip each piece of chicken into the wet batter.  

Lift the chicken out of the batter and let the excess drip off.  Place tenderloin in dry breading mixture.

Flip tenderloin over to coat completely.

Now carefully place tenderloin into the 350 degree oil. Repeat these steps with each tenderloin cooking only as many that will fit in your pot having chicken covered with oil.

Cook/Fry for 4 minutes or until golden brown.

Remove chicken from the oil and allow to drain on paper towels.

Now we can make the sauce.

In a sauce pan, pour 2/3 to 1 cup of honey

Add 1/4 cup of water.

1/4 cup of ketchup

1 tablespoon of white vinegar

2 teaspoons ground chipotle chile pepper

Then 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

Whisk the ingredients together and and bring to a boil on medium high heat. Once it begins to boil reduce heat and simmer for 2 minutes.

Put all of the fried chicken pieces into a large bowl and pour honey chipotle sauce over it.  Toss in the sauce to get it evenly distributed onto all of the pieces.

And Wah-la

Serve with ranch dressing.  Sooooo yummy!!!