Honey bbq chicken strip sandwich whataburger

The Whataburger Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich is one of their most loved chicken sandwich menu items. If you don’t live near a Whataburger, you can still make one of them at home.

If you have never been to Whataburger, you will soon find out that they sell much more than burgers. Some of their well-known menu items include their Chicken Fajitas, Grilled Chicken Breast Sandwiches, Cinnamon rolls, Honey-butter biscuits, Breakfast-on-a-bun.

Everything is cooked to order and you can have your food customized any way you desire.

The honey barbeque chicken strip sandwich is one of Whataburger’s all-time favorites.

• Whataburger History
• A Texas Treasure
• About the Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich
• Ingredients
• How to Make a Chicken Strip Sandwich
• Whataburger Honey Barbecue Sauce
• Whatatreat!
• Love Whataburger? Try these copycat recipes!
• Favorite Sandwich Recipes
• Whataburger Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich

Whataburger History

Everyone who has discovered Whataburger loves what you can get to eat there. Whataburger dates back to 1950 when Harmon Dobson envisioned a huge, five-inch burger that would make people say “What a burger!” The first restaurant, in Corpus Christi, Texas, only made $191 total in the first three days.

Then word got around that Harmon’s burgers were one inch bigger than everyone else’s and on the fourth day, Harmon recorded the following in his diary: “Big day – $141.80 – What a workhorse – 551 burgers.”

A Texas Treasure

In 1961, when Whataburger had over seventeen locations, the first iconic white-and-orange striped A-Frame restaurant building was opened in Odessa, Texas. The reason for the brightly-colored roofs? Harmon was a pilot and wanted them to be seen from the sky. (Sadly Harmon died in a plane crash in 1967.)

In 2001, the same year the Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich made its debut, the Texas Legislature designated Whataburger as an official Texas Treasure.

Today, Whataburger is still a family-owned business with more than 800 restaurants across ten states. Whatasuccess! Whataburger’s history is very interesting.

This popular sandwich has crispy chicken tender strips, Monterey jack cheese, and honey barbecue sauce between slices of thick and buttery Texas toast.

Ingredients

Here’s a list of what you need:

• Texas Toast
• Butter
• Monterey Jack Cheese slices
• Honey barbecue sauce
• Chicken tenders
• All-purpose flour
• Salt
• Pepper
• Garlic salt
• Buttermilk
• Oil for frying

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How to Make a Chicken Strip Sandwich

1. Combine flour, salt, pepper, and garlic salt in a bowl.
2. Pour buttermilk into the flour mixture and stir to combine.
3. Coat the chicken tenders with the batter and place them on a rack and allow them to dry.
4. Heat oil to 350 degrees.
5. Gently place a few of the battered chicken tenders into the hot oil.
6. Cook until they are golden brown.
7. Drain on a clean wire rack that has been placed on top of a baking sheet.
8. Butter both sides of the Texas Toast.
9. Cook the bread on a skillet or a griddle until the bread is golden brown.
10. Flip the bread over and brown the other side of the bread.
11. Place three chicken strips on four slices of bread.
12. Top strips with Monterey Jack Cheese.
13. Spread barbecue sauce on the remaining four slices of bread.
14. Place bread with BBQ sauce on top of the cheese.

Whataburger Honey Barbecue Sauce

Get saucy – this sticky and sweet sauce is a big treat on chicken. I bet you didn’t know that you can purchase Whataburger’s Honey BBQ Sauce online. It’s so much easier to buy Whataburger’s authentic sauce than trying to make it yourself.

You can imagine you’re eating at a Whataburger’s while never leaving your house. Below are three links I found if you don’t happen to live near an HEB or Central Market store where you can just walk in and buy the sauce.

Other sauces that you should try are their spicy ketchup, their mustard, and their creamy pepper dressing. All are so good, it makes it hard when you go there when you have to decide which sauce you are going to enjoy.

Whatatreat!

If you’ve never eaten one of these honey barbecue chicken strip sandwiches, you’re about to find out just what you’ve been missing.

If you’re not blessed with having a Whataburger near you, this mouthwatering sandwich can easily be made at home.

Just be careful when you’re biting into this delicious sandwich that you don’t get BBQ sauce all over your shirt!

Love Whataburger? Try these copycat recipes!

• Whataburger Breakfast Burger
• Chicken Strips
• Whataburger Patty Melt

Favorite Sandwich Recipes

• Arby’s Chicken Salad Sandwich
• Baconator Breakfast Sandwich
• Bennigans Monte Cristo
• Burger King Whopper Sandwich
• Copycat Chick Fil A Sandwich
• Country Fried Steak Sandwich
• Egg McMuffin Sandwich
• Frisco Sandwich
• Panera Steak Sandwich
• Sloppy Joe Recipe
• Starbucks Breakfast Sandwiches

Be sure to check out more of my sandwich recipes and the best fast food copycat recipes here on CopyKat.com!

• 8 slices Texas Toast
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 8 slices Monterey Jack Cheese
• 4 tablespoons honey barbecue sauce

Chicken Strips

• 1 1/2 pounds chicken tenders
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
• 2 1/2 cups buttermilk
• oil for frying

Chicken Tender Instructions

• Make the seasoned flour by combining flour, salt, pepper, and garlic salt. Stir the flour until it is well blended.

• Make a batter of the seasoned flour and buttermilk by pouring in about 1/2 cup of the buttermilk into the flour. You want the batter a little shaggy. 

• Coat the chicken with the batter and place on a rack and allow it to dry. The batter may fall off when cooking if you don’t allow the batter to try the chicken.

• Discard remaining buttermilk.

• Heat oil to 350 degrees.

• Gently place 3 or 4 breaded chicken tenders into the hot oil. Cook chicken tenders a few at a time until they are golden brown. Drain on a clean wire rack that has been placed on top of a baking sheet. 

Chicken tender sandwich assembly

• Butter both sides of the Texas Toast. Cook the bread on a skillet or a griddle until the bread is golden brown, flip the bread over and brown the other side of the bread.

• Place three chicken strips on four slices of bread, then top with 2 slices of Monterey Jack Cheese, and then spread about 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce on one slice of the bread.

Calories: 1230kcal | Carbohydrates: 97g | Protein: 67g | Fat: 63g | Saturated Fat: 24g | Cholesterol: 197mg | Sodium: 2493mg | Potassium: 994mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 1030IU | Vitamin C: 2.1mg | Calcium: 620mg | Iron: 16.1mg