Delicious baked chicken nuggets
Chicken nuggets are easy, convenient, and delicious. Try this recipe for extra-crispy, juicy, and tasty nuggets that your kids -and you- will love!
Prep Time 30 minutes mins
Cook Time 25 minutes mins
Total Time 55 minutes mins
Course Main Course, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 4
Calories 440 kcal
Food processor
Baking tray
Baking net
To make the juiciest nuggets, we need to start with a marinade.
Add into a bowl the garlic, pickle juice, vinegar, milk, salt, and pepper. Then mix everything well and put it aside.
Nuggets can be done in two ways: using uneven chicken pieces or making fun shapes.
Uneven chicken pieces
Cut the chicken breasts into pieces of about an inch and a half wide. Then the chicken pieces will go into the marinade pool.Mix and make sure to cover well the chicken pieces.
Fun shapes
Add the marinade to the whole breasts, covering well the chicken pieces.Cover both preparations with plastic wrap and stick them in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Coating
In the meantime, let's prepare our coatings. The chicken will have to go through three layers.Spread flour on a plate. In a separate bowl, combine milk and a beaten egg.Crush Honey Nut Cheerios in a food processor until you get a flour-like consistency. If you don't have a food processor, check the video at 2:39 for an alternative method :)You'll have enough time to prepare your homemade sauces too. Prepare a baking net over a tray with oil spray. Then pass each chicken piece through the flour, the milk mixture, and coat with the Honey Nut Cheerios crunchy layer.
Leave the nuggets on the oiled baking net.
To make the nuggets with fun shapes, take the marinated breasts. Cover and grind the chicken in a food processor for a few minutes until you obtain a paste. Add whole wheat flour and an egg to the chicken paste. Mix with the same food processor until you have a malleable dough, perfect to shape it the way we want!
Place parchment paper on a clean surface and put your preferred cookie cutters on it.
Smear some butter on the inside of the molds. Then, with a couple of spoons, take some chicken dough and put it in the molds.
Press well so that it takes the desired shape and then release it pushing a little. Try not to make them thicker than the width of your finger.
Then, follow the same coating process with the three layers we did before. Put the shapes breaded nuggets in the tray and spray with oil on top.
Put the nuggets in a preheated oven at 435 °F (220 °C) for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
Let the nuggets cool for a few minutes before serving.
And enjoy with your favorite sauce!
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