I suggest you serve them alongside whatever vegetables are in season. Serving suggestions: mustard is a particularly good accompaniment to these nuggets.Keep a bowl of warm water and a tea towel handy. Work with clean hands: keep your hands as clean as possible during the crumbing process - you don't want to be using messy, flour-coated hands when dipping the chicken into the egg, as it can create a sludge and impact the texture of your nuggets.They're good sprinkled over pasta, cooked vegetables, salads and many other dishes. Make extra breadcrumbs: if you can, make extra toasted breadcrumbs and store them in an airtight jar for a few days.Happily, I can report that chicken strips are likely to prompt the same impulse to dance as chicken nuggets.īuying breadcrumbs is fine if you don't have a food processor to make them fresh. Then, once the chicken has been crumbed and baked, you can cut it into strips. To do this, slice the chicken in half horizontally like you would when making schnitzel. However, making your own is an excellent way to use leftover bread, and the process is quite satisfying.Ĭoating each piece of chicken to create nuggets does take time, so by all means use larger pieces of chicken to fast-track the process (note: doing so will require fewer breadcrumbs). If a food processor isn't available to you, shop-bought breadcrumbs, such as panko, will certainly work. Having attempted multiple variations to see which sort of coating produced the most delicious, most tempting nugget (one that would please cautious three-year-olds and adults alike), I settled on the following recommendation: use nice bread, toast slices of it in the oven, then use a food processor to blitz the hardened, golden slices into breadcrumbs.Īnother trick to help make these nuggets extra yummy is to add a bit of garlic powder to the flour mixture. I knew this was the winning batch of chicken nuggets when my three-year-old son took a bite and began to dance in the kitchen.Īs you might expect, it all came down to the breadcrumbs.

Making chicken nuggets