I’ve got a great recipe for kids (or kids at heart) today! Kids (and my husband) love chicken nuggets. I think it’s the bite sized aspect of them. They’re easy to handle, easy to dip, and delicious. Unfortunately, chicken nuggets are full of preservatives and sometimes aren’t even real chicken! I decided to come up with a healthy recipe that’s really easy to make!
Healthy Chicken Nuggets
Servings: 2
Amount per serving: 193 calories—18g carbs– 1g fat—26g protein—1g sugar
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken breasts cut into bite seized pieces (4 oz breasts)
- ¼ cup flour **the calorie count accounts for 2 tbs flour because only about half gets used—just an fyi
- ¼ tsp onion salt
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- 1 egg white
- 1 cup panko crumbs **calorie count accounts for ½ cup because about half gets used
- Cooking spray
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix together the flour, garlic powder, and onion salt.
- Separate the flour, panko, and egg white into 3 different bowls
- Beat the egg white until soft peaks form
- One at a time, coat each piece of chicken in flour, then the egg white, then the panko and place on a greased (cooking spray) baking sheet. **TIP: make sure to coat well with egg white and panko so it really gets crunchy!
- When the nuggets are on the tray, lightly spray the tops of all of them with cooking spray.
- Bake for 5 minutes, flip each nugget over, and bake for another 5 minutes. Serve and enjoy!!
These chicken nuggets are great! My husband said he could eat a hundred of them! If you wanna make it spicy, try adding 1-2 teaspoons (depending on how spicy you want it) or so of cayenne pepper to the flour mixture!
Directions for easy printing
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix together the flour, garlic powder, and onion salt.
- Separate the flour, panko, and egg white into 3 different bowls
- Beat the egg white until soft peaks form
- One at a time, coat each piece of chicken in flour, then the egg white, then the panko and place on a greased (cooking spray) baking sheet. **TIP: make sure to coat well with egg white and panko so it really gets crunchy!
- When the nuggets are on the tray, lightly spray the tops of all of them with cooking spray.
- Bake for 5 minutes, flip each nugget over, and bake for another 5 minutes. Serve and enjoy!!
LOVE. LOVE. LOVE.