Crispy Chicken Nuggets

By Barbara Day, M.S., R.D.

This is one of my grandkids favorite recipes, their parents and their grandparents, love it as well. Any leftover tenders I use in salads.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  In a small dish, stir together flour, garlic salt, salt, pepper and paprika.  Using a blender or food processor, grind cereal to a dry bread crumb consistency and place in a separate small dish; stir in cheese.  Place the egg substitute in a third dish and the half and half in a fourth small dish.  Dip each tenderloin in half and half and then in the flour mixture, coating well.  Repeat.  Next dip each tenderloin or nugget in egg substitute, followed by the cereal, coating well.  Place tenderloins on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray.  Spray tenderloins lightly with cooking spray; bake 10 minutes.  Turn tenderloins over and coat again with cooking spray.  Bake for an additional 8 – 10 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and no longer pink, and cereal coating looks crisp.  Serve with your favorite dipping. sauce. 

Tips: Chicken tenderloins can be found in the fresh meat case or freezer section, alongside other cuts of chicken.  You can also choose to cut a fresh chicken breast into strips.  Cook extras, and reheat in a toaster oven.  Serve one or two in a bun for a delicious chicken strip sandwich or wrap in a whole-wheat tortilla with shredded lettuce and a light dressing for a quick chicken wrap. 

 

Per Serving:  405 calories, 47 grams protein, 7 grams of fat, 44 grams of CHO,  10 grams of fiber,  960 mg sodium.

 

Preparation Time: 15 minutes Bake Time: 20 minutes

                             

Serves:  4 servings of 4-ounces each serving

 

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 tsp garlic salt

1  tsp salt

1  tsp black pepper

¼ tsp dashes paprika

2 2/3 cup Fiber One cereal

½ cup grated Parmesan cheese

1 cup liquid egg substitute

1 cup fat-free milk or fat-free half & half

1 pound skinless, chicken breast tenderloins, trimmed of gristle, cut into small cubes to make chicken nuggets

Nonstick cooking spray

Shopping List

all-purpose flour

garlic salt

paprika

Fiber One cereal

grated Parmesan cheese

liquid egg white substitute

fat-free milk or half & half

4 –oz skinless, chicken breast tenderloins

Nonstick cooking spray

By Barbara Day, M.S., R.D.  is a registered dietitian with a Master’s Degree in clinical nutrition. She is the Chief Blog Organizer for www.DayByDayLiving.net   Barbara does fundraising and social media for Veterans Lodge (www.VeteransLodge.org) The former publisher of Kentuckiana HealthFitness Magazine, Kentuckiana Healthy Woman magazine and radio show host of Health News You Can Use, Barbara has over 30 years of experience in promoting healthy lifestyles to consumers. Barbara is a former runner who walks, a spinner, hiker a mother and grandmother to 13 grandchildren.