Please recommend your baked chicken nugget recipe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:14:26, you're equating "more healthful" with "lower fat." That seems like a questionable equation. You can't reduce the healthfulness of a food to a single component, and not all foods are equally healthful for all people at all times.

I couldn't agree more that you cannot reduce the healthfulness of a food to a single component. I do think, however, that all other things being equal (i.e., same exact ingredients EXCEPT the fat), in most situations the one with less fat is better. The only exception I can think of is an underweight kid. Also, I would bet the store-bought ones have a lot more sodium, because they always do. Other than that, they're pretty much equivalent to what you would make at home: chicken and breading. I am not saying that I would personally seek to make my own, I might decide it's not worth the hassle given a close second in a box, but I think in this cas it is pretyt clear that you can make a more healthful version at home.

[Anonymous]

Cut up chicken breasts, dipped in milk (not egg), rolled in breadcrumbs (italian seasoned or plain with our own spices added -- cajun or lemon pepper) or pulverized cheese-its (seriously!), and baked. They're awesome!!

[Anonymous]

I do the chicken breasts in bread crumbs and while my son does eat them, he is the first to tell you that they are NOT nuggets. They are tenders. Gotta love how a kid who will eat sand has such high standards.

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Does anyone have any idea how River Falls in Potomac makes their chicken fingers? My son absolutely loves theirs and my attempts to replicate don't come close.

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We are a dairy-free/gluten-free household and we have found success with dipping raw chicken into crushed Frito chips, then into raw egg, then back into the Fritos. They taste great - and have a nice kind-of fried flavor (because of the Fritos) but still the nice oven-baked quality.

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Today I just put random stuff in a pound of ground chicken, spices, feta cheese, 2 eggs, a little bit of bread crumbs and a few blended carots and broccoli (previously steamed), then breaded the and baked them and they turned out great. My son is an unbelievably picky eater and he ate a few. He didn't ask for more, but he ate them!

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We just made the Chicken Nugget recipe from Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious cookbook (you can google it and find the recipe). Her's calls for frying it and we did that with more oil because ours was sticking but next time I'm going to try and bake it. I would add some more spice to the recipe but my younger son gobbled these up. And there was an entire layer of spinach snuck in there which made me happy that I got something healthy into him for a change.