Ground Chicken Nuggets

5 from 26 votes

Easy to make and good to eat nuggets. And you can freeze them too.

Course Snack

Cuisine World

Keyword ground chicken nugget

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 8

Total Time 38

Servings pieces

Calories 139kcal

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 little cornflour.
2 tablespoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon salt more to taste
½ teaspoon pepper

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.

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

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

For frying, throw 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.

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 for 2 minutes until golden from the center.

Chicken: You can use ground chicken made with breast and thigh for best taste. Or if you have chicken breast or boneless chicken pieces in hand. Just process in the chopper until smooth and you can use it.
Dry chicken breast with a kitchen towel. Cut each breast into small pieces. Then ground into a fine paste in a food processor. Also, add 1 tablespoon of butter or cream as the chicken breast mince is very lean and dry.
Chicken powder: This gives you that bright chicken flavor if you don't have chicken powder, use chicken cube or bullion mixed with cornflour to make chicken powder.