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Chicken nuggets served

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
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Course Main Course, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 4
Calories 440 kcal

Equipment

  • Food processor
  • Baking tray
  • Baking net

Ingredients
  

Marinade

Coatings

Mustard and honey sauce

Sriracha and BBQ ketchup

Instructions
 

  • 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!

Honey Dijon mustard

  • Add Dijon mustard and honey in a small container and mix well.

Sriracha BBQ ketchup

  • Add ketchup, bbq sauce, and sriracha in a small container and mix well.

Video

Notes

Keyword back to school, chicken, crispy, juicy, nuggets