[Homemade] Mac and cheese w/honey & garlic chicken tenders

I went to look at a tenders recipe, this is what it says: "go and buy your favorite chicken tenders at the grocery store". Well f*** me for asking, right?

I'm gonna write a recipe for you, because I love ya -

Chicken

  1. Dip chicken in flour mix (it's flour mixed with pepper, salt, cayenne pepper, whatever, all optional depending on how good you want it to actually be). If you have used self raising flour at this point, pick up your jacket, and please exit the kitchen.
  2. Dip in egg wash. (it's just whisked egg, no soap needed at this stage)
  3. Re-dip in flour mix.
  4. Shallow fry on moderate heat (should sizzle when you put in pan), the reality is you need to use common sense depending on how chunky you prepared your chicken. If you really thought ahead, and if I was a nice guy, step one would have told you how to cut the chicken - cut it to the size of your expectations, yes, delicious, bite size expectation, pieces.
  5. Let it sit for a second you hungry f***, make a simple sauce while you wait.

Sauce

  1. Oil, garlic in pan. Don't brown it, just little it sizzle until you cook that rawness out.
  2. Add a big dollop of honey, add some soy sauce, if you have the heat too high this will go badly - remember how I said don't brown the garlic? So turn down the heat already before you splash boiling, salty sauce in your eye.
  3. Sit there, watch it closely, it should be simmering and reducing - step 4 quick, we aren't finished.
  4. This is gonna need some pepper, even a squeeze of lemon/lime, its already salty d**khead, don't add salt, you could add a dash of mirin, whiskey, something similar to give this an edge imho. Siracha would also go down well (thats hot-sauce to our more "basic" American chums), but don't overdo it, you don't want it to actually taste like siracha, unless you do? In which case ignore previous steps 1-3 and spray siracha in a cold pan (important), then scrape it out of the pan (don't cook it!) and onto your chicken, like a chump, gr**s, you're weird, now go wash the pan and your hands you grubby s**t.

edit: yes they censor the g word on this sub.

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