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Homemade Chicken Nuggets!? This is a dream come true for me! 

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I love chicken nuggets, but I don’t eat them that often because of all of the odd ingredients that they contain. When you look on the ingredient list of frozen chicken nuggets, you see many crazy ingredients and a whole bunch of oils and unhealthy crud. When you make chicken nuggets homemade, you know exactly what goes into them. There are no oils or unhealthy crud in HOMEMADE chicken nuggets! 

Weelicious Lunches

This recipe for homemade chicken nuggets is from the new Weelicious Lunches cookbook by Catherine McCord. Let me tell you a little bit about Catherine’s cookbook. The cookbook is about healthy lunches for kids. The whole family will enjoy these recipes, but they are meant to give kids healthy recipes that taste great, so that they will eat it and not trade it away at lunch.

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Ugh! Raw chicken mixed with a bunch of other ingredients to make the nuggets is sort of DISGUSTING!!! The only (semi) odd ingredient in my homemade chicken nuggets is mashed potatoes, which actually adds a nice flavor and texture to them.

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I hate working with chicken. I like eating cooked chicken, but I don’t like touching it that much when it’s raw. I had to suck-it-up to make these chicken nuggets.

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After you roll the raw chicken into nuggets, you roll the nuggets in panko and Parmesan. This makes them have a crispy crust!

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Catherine from Weelicious has created some perfect chicken nuggets! These Homemade Chicken Nuggets tasted amazing. They went perfectly with some leftovers that we had from the night before. I would recommend making these for picky eaters. They taste even better than the frozen nuggets with all of the cruddy ingredients in them!

Well as you can see, I loved these chicken nuggets.  I can’t believe that chicken nuggets without the junk you see on the ingredient list of frozen nuggets can taste SOOOOO good! And even a kid can take away junk from chicken nuggets… Like Me!

Homemade Chicken Nuggets

Homemade Chicken Nuggets

By Lori Lange
Sooooo much more delicious and better for you than any of those frozen nuggets!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 4 servings (5 nuggets per serving)
Calories 207 kcal

Ingredients
  

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 375℉. Place a cooling rack on a baking sheet lined with foil. Spray the rack with nonstick spray.
  • Place the chicken, mashed potatoes, parsley, salt, garlic powder, onion powder and parsley in a food processor and pulse until smooth and combined.
  • In a shallow bowl or plate, combine the panko and Parmesan.
  • With moistened hands (or spray hands with nonstick spray), roll 1 tablespoon of the chicken mixture between your palms and flatten into a "nugget" shape. Gently press the nugget into the panko mixture to coat. Set the nugget on the prepared rack/pan. Repeat with the remaining chicken mixture. Lightly spray the nuggets with cooking spray.
  • Bake for 20 minutes, or until crispy outside and cooked throughout. Serve with ketchup, ranch dressing (or the Veg-Wee Dip shared in the Weelicious Lunches cookbook).

Nutrition

Serving: 1servingCalories: 207kcalCarbohydrates: 15gProtein: 27gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 74mgSodium: 535mgPotassium: 532mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 46IUVitamin C: 7mgCalcium: 40mgIron: 1mg
Keyword chicken, chicken nuggets
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149 Comments

  1. I like to eat cookies – choc chip, sugar, oatmeal raisin. The cookbook looks amazing! Thanks for the opportunity to win it – my kids would love some new lunchbox ideas!

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  4. My son is such a picky eater he always wants junk food for lunch. I would love to find a new spin on healthy for him. Soft spot for me would be chocolate…it is the best and worst all at once.

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  9. I like McDonald’s food. Even when most processed things don’t taste good to me anymore something about McDonald’s “food” will always appeal to me. ::blushes::

    Thanks for the chance to win!

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  10. I love to eat McDonald’s Hamburgers, i hate the Cheeseburgers but i go crazy for the Hamburgers!! Doesn’t make much sense I know, but you love what you love, lol!!

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  13. This is a funny question because I think I love ALL junk food! I like pork rinds and usually can’t stop eating them until the bag is empty (but I pay for it later). I also love Simply Caramel bars.

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  25. I love snickers. Its something about the peanuts, nugget and the caramel that I cant stop eating!!!!! Absolutely nothing beats a snickers bar!!!! I saw a recipe to make a snickers cake that I have got to try. It looks just like it. I hope it taste almost as good.

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  33. I can only pick one?!? I guess I’d have to choose brownies with chocolate chips and a chocolate fudge topping with vanilla bean ice cream. Darn, now I’m hungry. Lol

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  34. I definitely have a junk food weakness. Diet Dr. Pepper (like Bryn above) but I also really love Milano cookies and those cookies that are shaped like tubes and filled with chocolate. Yum.

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  37. Conversation hearts…I don’t know what it is about them. They are not even that flavorful, but I can eat a whole bag. Disgusting!

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  47. This time of year, I crave all the Halloween candy. I’ve been wanting to get candy corn. I bet a bag of candy corn could stay preserved in a cupboard for years, but if I brought one home, it’d be gone within two days….

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  52. Gah! I hate admitting it but I love chips…. The veggie ones are okay but there’s something wonderful and awful about the bad ones.

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  55. I love diet Dr Pepper and a snickers bar for those terrible, awful, horrible, no good days. Thankfully I don’t have many of those!

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  58. I like to drink Coke every once in a while. eewwwhhh I know. You can clean rust with this! I crave it occasionally 😉

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  59. Root beer floats! Oh, and Peanutbutter M&Ms, recently bough a huge bag from Sam’s Club, and it’s almost gone!

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  66. I love avocados. and chips and dip and cookies! and nuts. and meat. and….. OK, I love just about everything!

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  67. I love to eat take out chinese food still. I don’t even want to know what goes it in, because it’s probably absolutely gross but I love it anyways!

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  69. Entenmann’s crumb topped donuts–they’re so delicious, but every time I look at the label I can’t help but cringe and feel guilty for liking them so much!

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  72. I just love Cheetos. Trader Joe’s has a (very slightly) better version, but either way junk food is junk food.

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  77. Yum! This recipe looks great! I’m going to try it! Well, I guess my favorite thing would be Nutella. I know Catherine has a recipe for that, too! 🙂

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  79. Cheezits. When I was in high school I often made a lunch of white cheddar cheezits, a brownie and grapfruit juice. I know, ew. Oh, and tater tots.

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  80. I love chocolate chip brownies, blondies they are called by some, congo squares by other… yummy is what they are!

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  81. Ugh I can’t help but love Totino’s Pizza Rolls and also frozen pizzas. I don’t know what’s with me since we actually make really good homemade pizza at home (crust, sauce, everything), but I really do like a decent frozen pizza 🙂

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  85. As much as I like homemade mac&cheese, I also love the orange stuff with totally fake ingredients from the “blue box”….there’s something about it that just tastes great to me.

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  86. Lays original chips, topped with salsa, cheese (pop in microwave to melt cheese) and top with sour cream!!! so much junk!!!

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  88. My main “junk” food is anything chocolate – fudge, cookies, cakes, trifles, brownies, candy bars, cobblers, etc…..

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  99. I’ve got to tell you – my daughter, when she was in high school, would often call me at work and ask what she should do to start dinner before I got home. She too hated raw chicken. BUT today she is a CHEF and doesn’t mind it at all!

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  102. I have never been able to turn down a double-stuffed Oreo. Newman O’s are a good substitute, but still aren’t the real thing!

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  104. Hmmmm … I really don’t eat any junk food — don’t keep it in my house. Never go to fast food places. However, if there were potato chips sitting around I would probably grab a handful of those. This is a great chicken nugget recipe. I’m going to try them tonight for our movie night!

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  105. I just made my own Milky Way bars, and I have to say that I loved knowing exactly what went into them. However, the store-bought ones are also very hard to resist!

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  131. I like ice cream but when you cant pronounce the ingredients I don’t like to eat it so I make my own, that’s the way it usually is in the manufacturing process. so if you want a good thing, make your own. thanks for the recipe.

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  136. I love my Chocolate Scotcheroos recipe.

    I agree with you, I don’t like to handle raw chicken any more than I have to. Will be making the nuggets for my grandsons, though!

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  137. I must confess-I occasionally allow myself to eat a candy bar-Snickers, Milky Way, M & M’s. No bar is safe. : )

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  138. Hello Brooks,
    I am loving your recipe for the chicken nuggets – however, I usually pick recipes based on calorie content. I know you’re a young kid and it’s a lot of work, but are you considering including nutritional content soon? I’d love that. Thanks,
    Kate R

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  139. My all time favorite junk food is cookies. Oatmeal peanut butter cho chip is probably my favorite cookie. Unless it’s Christmas time, then the rules change.

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  140. Mmmmmm, candy corn! Probably because you can only get it for a limited time. I crave it when they run out until it hits the shelves again, and then I stock up!

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