Nuggets are pieces of poultry meat in a complex breading, fried in oil until crisp. This dish is well known to regulars in the fast food chain. For those who do not have the opportunity to visit such establishments often, there are several ways to offer how to cook nuggets in the conditions of ordinary home cooking.

How to Make Classic Chicken Nuggets

From a culinary point of view, nuggets are breaded, deep fried poultry.

To learn how to cook such a dish correctly, for a start it is worth considering the classic version.

In this case, to work you will need:

  • 1 chicken breast;
  • 2 eggs;
  • salt (to taste);
  • Wheat flour;
  • pepper;
  • breadcrumbs;
  • refined vegetable oil.

How to make nuggets from these products:

  1. First you need to prepare the main ingredient. To do this, remove the skin from the breast and carefully cut the meat from the bone. Cut the remaining pulp with a sharp knife into pieces no more than 1 centimeter thick. In this case, cuts must be made across the fibers.
  2. Combine the salt with pepper and evenly process the pieces of meat with this mixture.
  3. Pour flour and crackers into separate plates. Break the eggs into a bowl and mix them slightly with a fork.
  4. Next, pieces of meat must be lowered into each container in the following order: flour - eggs - breadcrumbs.
  5. Put the billets in a pan and fry in boiling oil for 3 minutes on each side.

Serve nuggets preferably hot along with any flavorful sauce.

Cooking like in McDonald's

Fast food lovers find it difficult to give up their usual dishes. Yes, this is not required. After all, at home, you can make the same nuggets that they are prepared in every McDonald's.

For this you need:

  • 0.5 kilograms of chicken;
  • 1 raw egg;
  • some salt;
  • 3 tablespoons of lemon juice;
  • 5 cloves of garlic;
  • 70 grams of any vegetable oil;
  • pepper;
  • 50 - 60 grams of breadcrumbs.

Cooking Method:

  1. Cut the meat arbitrarily into pieces.
  2. Fold them in a deep plate, and then sprinkle with pepper and salt, add chopped garlic and mix well.
  3. Beat the egg in a cup, adding about 70 milliliters of water to it.
  4. Pour crackers into a shallow plate.
  5. First, dip a piece of meat into the egg mass, and then roll in breadcrumbs. At the same time, it is better to hold it with a fork so that the breading does not stick to the hands.
  6. Put the billets in a pan with hot oil.
  7. Fry on both sides until a characteristic crust appears.

You do not need to eat nuggets right away. First they should be put on a napkin so that it absorbs excess fat. After that, rosy pieces can be served with tomato, garlic or any other sauce.

With soda and starch

Sometimes housewives complain that the nuggets they cook turn out to be rather dry, and the breading simply drains into a pan and is fried separately.

This can be fixed if you use a different technology and a completely different set of products:

  • 1 chicken fillet;
  • salt;
  • 10 grams of potato starch;
  • 1 lemon;
  • pepper;
  • 12 grams of baking soda;
  • flour.

How to make nuggets from all this:

  1. First, the fillet must be divided into portions, cutting the meat across the fibers.
  2. Put the resulting slices in a bowl and salt.
  3. Then they need to be sprinkled with soda, and to extinguish it, pour over lemon juice.
  4. Add starch, mix and leave the meat in this state for 15 minutes.
  5. After processing each piece in flour, fry them in a pan on both sides.

A crusty crust will be a signal that the dish is ready.

Turkey filet nuggets

Cafes and fast food restaurants usually make chicken nuggets. But at home, you can experiment a little and take, for example, turkey fillet. This meat is also considered dietary. And to taste it is not inferior to chicken at all. In addition, in the conditions of home cooking, you can use an unusual breading.

This will require:

  • 0.5 kilograms of turkey;
  • 100 grams of wheat flour;
  • 1 egg
  • salt;
  • 150 grams of corn flakes;
  • 5 grams of ground pepper;
  • 30 grams of crackers;
  • one and a half teaspoons of dried garlic;
  • sunflower oil;
  • ½ teaspoon of grated ginger and turmeric.

Preparing these nuggets is very simple:

  1. Turkey meat (it is better to take the fillet) cut into slices with a thickness of not more than 1.5 centimeters.
  2. Fill blanks in a bowl.
  3. Sprinkle them with pepper, turmeric, garlic, salt and ginger.
  4. Add beaten egg and mix well.
  5. Grind the flakes in a blender, and then combine them with flour and breadcrumbs.
  6. Roll pieces of meat alternately in the prepared breading and fry on both sides in hot oil until each of them is browned.

Deep-fried cooking is much faster. The meat is processed immediately from all sides, and it is not necessary to turn it over.

In the microwave

Experienced housewives can make delicious chicken nuggets even in the microwave. True, there is one subtlety. Inside the chamber, the workpieces are no more than 5 minutes and may not have time to bake properly. Therefore, the meat must first be marinated.

For such a recipe, you need to take:

  • 250 grams of chicken breast pulp;
  • 2 egg whites;
  • 40 milliliters of soy sauce;
  • 50 grams of breadcrumbs;
  • pepper;
  • salt;
  • any dry spices.

Process technology:

  1. The washed and dried breast is put in a bowl and pour in soy sauce. 20 minutes will be enough for marinating.
  2. Cut the processed meat into small pieces.
  3. Mix salt with spices and pepper.
  4. Grate workpieces with this compound.
  5. Beat the whites lightly with salt.
  6. First dip the meat into the egg mass, and then roll in breadcrumbs.
  7. Put the pieces on a dish and send in the microwave for literally 5 minutes. In this case, the power of the device should be maximum.

For a more original serving, each piece on a plate can be pierced with a skewer (or toothpick), and pour the sauce into a separate bowl.

With cheese filling

If you want some kind of variety, you can cook nuggets with aromatic cheese filling at home. But in this case, it is better to grind the meat into minced meat - so the filling will not leak out.

The ingredients for this recipe will need the most common:

  • 750 grams of chicken fillet;
  • 120 grams of flour;
  • salt;
  • 4 eggs;
  • pepper;
  • 300 grams of hard cheese;
  • favorite spices;
  • refined sunflower oil.

Cooking takes place in several stages:

  1. Cut the fillet into slices, and then chop in a blender.
  2. Add salt, 1 egg, a little pepper to it and mix well.
  3. Cheese randomly cut into cubes.
  4. Beat the remaining eggs.
  5. Pour flour and crackers into separate plates.
  6. Take a piece of minced meat and make a cake out of it. In the center, put a piece of cheese, and then roll up the workpiece in the form of a ball.
  7. For breading, first roll each product in flour, then dip in eggs, and then process in breadcrumbs.
  8. It is better to deep-fry such balls until a beautiful golden crust is formed.

This dish is ideal for a children's holiday. Yes, and adults will also like it.

Oven filet nuggets

Anyone who is contraindicated in fried food can cook no less tasty chicken fillet nuggets, baking them in the oven.

Moreover, you need a classic set of ingredients:

  • 3 chicken fillets;
  • 5 grams of salt;
  • 100 - 120 grams of wheat flour;
  • 3 raw eggs;
  • a pinch of pepper;
  • 35 grams of vegetable oil;
  • 160 - 180 grams of crackers.

How to make nuggets in the oven:

  1. Rinse the fillet, remove excess films from it, and cut the pulp itself into pieces arbitrarily. Each of them should be no more than 4 centimeters in size.
  2. To prepare the breading, prepare three plates. In one will be flour, in the other crackers, and in the third you need to beat the eggs.
  3. Now you can safely proceed to the processing. The meat must be alternately lowered into each plate in the following order: flour - egg - crackers.
  4. Place the wire rack on the pan. Then put the blanks on it.
  5. Bake at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. In this case, the pan must be placed in the chamber at an average level.

This dish can be done if a friendly party is planned in the house. The hostess will have more free time that she can devote to her guests. All that remains for her is to prepare the meat, and the oven will meekly do the rest.

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