Chicken Nuggets Recipe

Make your frozen ground chicken nuggets at home in just 30 minutes! This recipe makes juicy fried nuggets full of chicken flavor. The recipe is kid-friendly and has very few ingredients.

Ingredients

• 1 slice bread
• ¼ cup milk
• 500 grams of ground chicken

Seasonings

• 1 teaspoon onion powder, or 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion, squeeze excess water
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder, or 1 teaspoon garlic paste
• 1½ teaspoon chicken powder or ½ chicken cube/bullion mixed with a little cornflour.
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• ½ teaspoon salt, more to taste
• ½ teaspoon pepper

To Coat

• 2 large eggs, for egg wash

• 3 cup bread crumb, to coat
• Oil, to fry

Instructions

• Take milk in a bowl and put the bread slice in it. Let it soak in the milk then mash it.
• Add mashed bread, garlic powder, onion powder, lemon juice, salt, and pepper to ground chicken and mix well. The chicken mixture will be sticky, It’s ok. Set in the fridge to chill for 15 minutes.

Prepare Breading Station

• In a bowl, whisk eggs, and add salt and pepper to make the egg wash. Take some bread crumbs on a large plate. Also, keep a baking sheet or large trays to set prepared nuggets.

Roll Out nuggets

• Grease hands with oil and roll out small ground chicken mixture balls. Coat each ball with bread crumbs. This will make balls firm enough to handle.
• Now shape the balls into squares or circles with your hands. Dip each nugget in egg wash and then again in bread crumbs.

Frying Instructions

• For frying, throw a few nuggets directly in hot oil. Do not crowd the wok and fry on medium heat for 2-3 minutes.  Then increase heat and fry for another 2 minutes until golden. Do not overcook, that will make the nuggets dry.
• Take out on a kitchen towel and serve hot with any dip or ketchup.

Freezing Instructions

• Put nuggets on a tray and freezer for two hours until rock solid. Don’t stack, keep each nugget separated.

• Once frozen, store plastic zip lock bags or in a container putting layers of butter paper in between the nuggets. To fry frozen nuggets, throw nuggets directly in hot oil. Fry on medium heat for 4 minutes. Then increase heat fry for another 2 minutes until golden from the centre.