WOAH NELLIE!!!!!
On some TV show, I saw people making their own chicken nuggets, and I gotta say, I scoffed at them. But with my crazy eating, chicken nuggets out of the box make me a bit sick. And there were directions on the shredded wheat box on how to make your own chicken nuggets. So off I went.
The following recipe is my own adaptation. The box recipe didn't include an egg, which I thought it needed.
Ingredients:
3 boneless chicken breasts, thawed and cut into bite sized pieces (I'm thinking of using chicken tenders next time)
1.5 cups shredded wheat cereal
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt (measurements are approx. I just throw stuff in!)
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1 egg
1 Tbsp plain yogurt (or mayo)
(you can add some mustard, honey or honey mustard in if you want.
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400
2. Put shredded wheat cereal into food processor. Pulverize.
3. Add in garlic salt, paprika (and any other spices you want)
4. beat together egg, yogurt (and mustard or anything else)
5. Dip chicken bites into egg mixture, coat evenly.
6. Put dipped chicken into cereal mixture, coat evenly
7. Place on greased cooking sheet
8. Bake for 20-25 minutes, turn over about half way through.
Seriously, I thought it'd be a disaster, but we gave it a try and it was YUMMIE!!!!!!
The benefit to these is 1) I can eat them without feeling sick to my stomach. And 2) There isn't any extra added additives or sodium!
I'm pondering if I would be able to batter and dip a bunch of nuggets and then freeze them before cooking them ... then cook the number I want at any given time. Not sure about this. Just doing some thinking.
2 comments:
I've made my own for some time now. Instead of egg, though, I've used sour cream, or more recently Jack Daniels mustard. I use Bisquick with some paprika and ranch dressing powder for the coating.
The shredded wheat sounds interesting. Does that make them crunchy?
And you can definitely freeze them. Put them on wax paper on a cookie sheet til they're frozen, then bag them, to keep them from sticking to each other.
The shredded wheat made them pretty crisp. Very similar to the ones from the box.
Your ideas are awesome, Juno!
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