Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Tenders with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce

Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Tenders with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce are smoky and spicy with the right amount of sweetness.  They make a great appetizer or entree.

How are you doing with your spring cleaning?  We’ve been knee-deep in major spring cleaning.  I was able to arrange my schedule to where I had five (count ’em five!) days off in a row.  In that period of time, we:

• Had the windows washed
• Had outdoor and some indoor furniture cleaned
• I cleaned and organized our attic

The attic is another story for another day!  Buying all that crap seemed like such a good idea at the time!  It all got used for a while but in the end wasn’t anything truly important, life-changing or sentimental.  The “stuff” is all going to local charitable and religious organizations so my guilt is mildly reduced and it will now help people in need.

However, here’s a recipe you’re going to want to keep around!  Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Tenders with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce!  I make these A LOT for my clients and they never fail to please!

Everything is better with bacon and chicken tenders are just screaming to be wrapped in a slice of smoky, delicious bacon!  Here’s another recipe with bacon-wrapped goodness!  Pumpkin, Chipotle and White Cheddar Grits with Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp!

You could do two slices around the tender, but I think the bacon would then be overwhelming.  Chicken tenders are just the right size with one strip wrapped around to cook through in a non-stick skillet in about 10 minutes.

My amazing 89-year-old father grows some of the most beautiful raspberry bushes on the planet and we are the happy recipients of the abundance each year.

We still had some in the freezer from last year which is what I used.  Use frozen raspberries from your local grocery store or even raspberry preserves to make this sauce.  (Raspberry preserves can be on the sweet side, so sure to adjust the sweetness to your taste.)  This dish can be adapted easily to the Paleo diet by using honey instead of the sugar.

Now let’s eat!

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Bacon Wrapped Chicken Tenders with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce

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Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Tenders with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce are smoky and spicy with the right amount of sweetness.  They make a great appetizer or entree.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

• SAUCE
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1/2 small red onion, finely chopped (approximately 1/2 cup)
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1 (12-ounce) bag frozen raspberries
• 2 chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
• 2 tablespoons adobo sauce
• 2 tablespoons balsamic or raspberry vinegar
• 1/4 cup sugar (or as needed)
• salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• TENDERS
• 1 (8-ounce) package chicken tenders (tenderloin)
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 8 slices bacon (or 1 per tender)

Instructions

1. SAUCE: Heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the onion, reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring often until soft, approximately 8-10 minutes.
2. Add the garlic and cook 30 seconds. Add the remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer 8-10 minutes or until thickened and reduced by 1/3. Remove from the heat and cool.
3. Puree in a food processor or blender.
4. Strain through a sieve, pressing on solids to extract as much sauce as possible. Serve sauce with chicken tenders.
5. TENDERS: Season chicken tenders with salt and black pepper. (You may wish to lighten up on the salt as the bacon is salty.)
6. Wrap a bacon slice around each chicken tender.
7. Preheat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Place the chicken tenders in the pan with the end of the bacon strip down. (This will help "seal" the bacon onto the chicken.)
8. Brown the chicken well on all sides until bacon is crisp and chicken is cooked through to 165 degrees.

Nutrition Information

Yield

2

Serving Size

2 as entree, 4 as appetizer
Amount Per Serving Calories 657 Total Fat 33g Saturated Fat 8g Trans Fat 0g Unsaturated Fat 22g Cholesterol 65mg Sodium 2003mg Carbohydrates 65g Net Carbohydrates 0g Fiber 12g Sugar 40g Sugar Alcohols 0g Protein 27g

The nutritional information above is computer-generated and only an estimate. Please do your own research with the products you're using if you have a serious health issue or are following a specific diet.