Taco Bell has introduced three new items to expand its already-popular chicken menu, including strips and a new burrito and taco.
After a successful test in 2024, Taco Bell brought its crispy chicken nuggets back to the menu in April 2025 and revealed plans to make crispy chicken a permanent menu item before the end of the year.
The company teased several new products during its Live Mas Live showcase back in March, and now they’re finally available.
Introduced on Thursday, June 12, Taco Bell’s new Crispy Chicken Strips, burrito, and taco are finally available for customers to enjoy.
Taco Bell releases three new chicken items
According to Allrecipes, the biggest of the three new items, Crispy Chicken Strips, are marinated in a jalapeno buttermilk flavor and are coated with tortilla chip breadcrumbs before being fried. They’re available alongside new Spicy Ranchero and Avocado Ranch sauces.
Taco Bell has revealed two items that feature the new chicken strips as well, including a burrito that uses two of them inside. To accompany the meat, the Crispy Chicken Burrito comes with purple cabbage, lettuce, pico de gallo, and cheddar cheese in a tortilla with your choice of the same two sauces as the strip meal.
The smallest of the three items comes in the form of a taco that features the same ingredients as the burrito, but with just one chicken strip instead of two.
Although it’s not directly marketed the same, the Crispy Chicken Taco is Taco Bell’s closest competitor to the upcoming McDonald’s Snack Wrap that will feature the McCrispy Strips that came out back in May.
Years after it was removed from the menu, the McDonald’s Snack Wrap returns on July 10, 2025, and features two flavors, ranch and spicy, to align the offering with their existing McCrispy sandwiches.
