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Back-To-School Juicy Juice Ice Pops & BBQ Chips Chicken Fingers Recipes

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Back-To-School Juicy Juice Ice Pops & BBQ Chips Chicken Fingers Recipes

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own. 

Back-to-School season means hectic schedules, busy weekdays, school lunch packing and weeknight dinners. We eased back into our school year schedules but are still hanging on to our summer vibes with delicious Apple Blueberry ice pops we made using Juicy Juice 100% juice and fresh berries.

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Ingredients:

Materials:

  • ice pop mold

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We put about 10 blueberries in each ice pop mold, then filled each one with Juicy Juice Apple Juice. Next, we placed the molds in the freezer overnight to freeze.

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These Juicy Juice Apple Blueberry ice pops are the perfect after school snack with absolutely NO no high fructose corn syrup, NO cane sugar and NO artificial sweeteners. It’s the perfect snack to enjoy while completing some homework or doing some reading at home.

Juicy Juice’s Back to School Campaign is dedicated to helping families for the “back to busy” back to school season with easy, fun and flavorful lunchbox, dinner and snack solutions from Chef Jeff Mauro of the Food Network’s The Kitchen.

Courtesy of Jeff Mauro

Makes 4 servings

  • 1 cup BBQ sauce
  • 1 lb. chicken tenders
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 large bag of BBQ kettle chips
  • 3 eggs, whisked
  • Chopped parsley
  1. Place chicken in a zipper-top bag with BBQ sauce and marinate between 2 and 8 hours.
  2. Open bag of chips and squeeze out air. Using a meat mallet, “pulverize” the chips until crumbly and place in a pie tin.
  3. Place eggs in a separate pie tin and the flour in a separate pie tin to set up breading station.
  4. Preheat oven to 450.
  5. Spray a wire-racked sheet pan with non-stick cooking spray
  6. Take chicken out of BBQ sauce and dip into flour, then dip into egg, then coat entirely in chips.
  7. Place chip-coated chicken on wire-racked sheet
  8. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until internal temp registers 165 degrees.
  9. Garnish with chopped parsley and serve with side of Mango Dipping Sauce (recipe below)

Mango Dipping Sauce

  • 1 cup of Juicy Juice® 100% juice, mango flavor
  • ½ cup mayo
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 tablespoon stone ground mustard
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  1. In a small sauce pan, bring mango juice to a gentle simmer. Reduce by half and cool.
  2. In a bowl, add in mayo, honey, mustard and about ¾ cup of the cooled reduced mango juice and whisk until combined.
  3. Adjust thickness with more mayo or more of the remaining mango juice until desired thickness is achieved. Add seasoning, if desired.