Chicken Selects were terminated in 2013. The product briefly returned in 2015 as a limited-time promotion. In August 2017, a similar chicken tender product named "Buttermilk Crispy Tenders" was added to the menu. However, they were discontinued in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strips of tender chicken breast in a seasoned, crispy coating.

This fall, they were reintroduced as Buttermilk Crispy Tenders, and fans loved them so much that now they're being temporarily discontinued due to high demand and lack of supply. Naturally, people are not happy about this. In the Twittersphere, fast food lovers are mourning the loss of their fried chicken must-have.

That's not for lack of trying, as its Chicken Select Tenders were a permanent menu item from 2002 to 2013. After being dropped, they were brought back in 2015, winning some fans, but not being popular enough to stick around.

Buttermilk fried chicken: Southern-style fried chicken marinated in buttermilk for a tangy flavour, then traditionally pan-fried in a skillet rather than deep-fried.

These are the ingredients you'll need to make this buttermilk fried chicken recipe: For the chicken: Whole chicken (cut into eight pieces), seasonings (black pepper, salt, paprika, white pepper, dried rosemary, ground thyme, dried oregano, dried sage, and cayenne pepper), and buttermilk.

We start with all white-meat chicken cut from the tenderloin, breast and rib and mix it with a marinade for flavor and juiciness and to help them keep their fun shape. Once everything is mixed, we create the four famous Chicken McNuggets® shapes - bell, boot, ball and bone.

Ingredients: EITHER: Chicken Breast Meat (57%), Water, Allergen Ingredient: WHEAT Flour, Vegetable Oils (Sunflower, Rapeseed), Starch, Yeast Extract, Modified Starch, Salt, Spices (contain Allergen Ingredient: CELERY), Acidity Regulators (Sodium Carbonate, Trisodium Citrate), Allergen Ingredient: WHEAT Gluten, Raising ...

McDonald's, according to Nation's Restaurant News (NRN), announced Friday they are temporarily taking the chicken tenders off the menu because of supply problems. With no artificial preservatives, colors or flavors, the chicken tenders are touted as made using 100% white meat chicken.

McDonald's temporarily removed chicken tenders from the menu as a result of the coronavirus pandemic - however, the change could become permanent.

Chicken tenders were first made in Manchester, New Hampshire at the Puritan Backroom in 1974. Restaurants in Savannah, Georgia, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana have challenged this claim with later assertions to the invention of chicken tenders, although the general consensus supports the claim in Manchester.

Chicken Selects were terminated in 2013. The product briefly returned in 2015 as a limited-time promotion. In August 2017, a similar chicken tender product named "Buttermilk Crispy Tenders" was added to the menu. However, they were discontinued in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It's made up of water, milk proteins, milk sugars (lactose) and a small amount of fat (about as much as low-fat milk). When butter was made at home, the buttermilk was left out overnight to ferment and thicken on its own. What you buy now is cultured buttermilk.

Originally, buttermilk referred to the liquid left over from churning butter from cultured or fermented cream. Traditionally, before the advent of homogenization, the milk was left to sit for a period of time to allow the cream and milk to separate.

Commercially available cultured buttermilk is milk that has been pasteurized and homogenized, and then inoculated with a culture of Lactococcus lactis or Lactobacillus bulgaricus plus Leuconostoc citrovorum to simulate the naturally occurring bacteria in the old-fashioned product.

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