Most of us are familiar with a dish called nuggets. It consists of slices of fillet (most often chicken) breaded, fried in vegetable oil, so that the meat is covered with a crispy crust. Today we offer a closer look at this dish and learn how to cook nuggets at home.
Most often, chicken or fish fillet is used for cooking. However, if you like experiments, you can also try veal. As for the side dish, this dish goes well with vegetable salads.
Standard Nuggets Recipe At Home
This dish does not require complex and expensive ingredients, and it will take very little time to prepare it.
Necessary products: a pound of chicken, a couple of eggs, flour, breadcrumbs, pepper and salt, as well as vegetable oil for frying.
Cooking process
Cut the fillet into small pieces, salt and pepper. Also, if desired, you can add any seasonings. Roll the fillet slices in flour thoroughly. Beat the eggs. Dip the pieces of chicken boned in flour into the egg mass. Then breading with breadcrumbs. In a deep frying pan, heat the oil. Spread future nuggets in it. In this case, the oil should completely cover the chicken pieces. Fry the meat on both sides until golden brown. Delicious homemade nuggets are ready! It is best to serve them on the table in the heat of the heat. Enjoy your meal!
Cheese Fish Nuggets Recipe
We bring to your attention the option of preparing this fish fillet dish . In combination with cheese, it turns out to be very aromatic and tasty.
In order to cook fish nuggets at home, we need the following ingredients: a pound of pollock, four chicken eggs, 150 grams of hard cheese, 200 grams of flour, vegetable oil, as well as salt, pepper and other seasonings to your taste.
Cooking process
We clear the fish of scales, bones and viscera, carefully rinse and cut into small pieces. Add salt, pepper and seasonings. On a fine grater, grate cheese finely and mix it well with flour. In another plate, beat the eggs and add a little salt. Dip the pieces of fish fillet in an egg, then roll in flour with cheese and send to a pan with heated oil. Fry on both sides until golden brown. Fish nuggets at home ready! This dish is preferably served hot. It goes well with mashed potatoes and a fresh vegetable salad.
Savory Fish Nuggets
This recipe is for real gourmets. These nuggets, unlike other options, are not fried in vegetable oil in a pan, but baked on a baking sheet in the oven.
To prepare a delicious dish, we need to stock up on the following products: a pound of fresh cod, a couple of eggs, half a lemon, black pepper and salt to taste, a quarter cup of milk, 4 tablespoons of Greek yogurt, two tablespoons of Dijon mustard, one tablespoon of hot sauce, two glasses of breadcrumbs.
Cooking process
We break the eggs in a plate, add mustard, hot sauce, milk, yogurt to them and mix until a homogeneous creamy mass is formed. Pour breadcrumbs into a separate bowl. We prepare a baking sheet, spreading baking paper on it.
Squeeze half a lemon on the washed cod fillet , add salt, pepper and other seasonings and cut lengthwise into long strips. Each of them is cut into small pieces of the same size. Dip the fillet in the egg mass, and then roll it thoroughly in the breadcrumbs. We spread the pieces on a baking sheet and send it to the oven preheated to 200 degrees. Bake them for about 10 minutes until golden brown. Serve spicy fish nuggets at home with tartar sauce. Enjoy your meal!
Sweet nuggets with vegetables and rice in sweet and sour sauce
If you want to treat yourself and your home to a delicious and original dish, then be sure to try this recipe. Cooking nuggets at home in this way will take you no more than an hour, and the result will exceed all expectations.
So, first you need to prepare the following ingredients: a glass of rice, a pound of fish fillet (for example, sea bass), 200 ml of vegetable oil for frying, 5 tablespoons of flour, the same amount of starch, a tablespoon of milk, a glass of sparkling water, 150 ml of Chinese sweet and sour sauce, three bell peppers, one onion, 4 tablespoons of soy sauce and herbs for decoration.
Cooking process
We start with the preparation of batter. To do this, combine the flour with salt and starch in a bowl, add milk and sparkling water, mix well and remove for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. Rinse and boil the rice. Cut the washed fish fillet into small pieces.
We proceed to the preparation of the sauce. We wash and clean peppers from seeds and cut them into thin strips. Peel and chop the onion. In a preheated pan with a small amount of oil, fry the pepper and onion, then add sweet and sour and soy sauce, half a glass of plain water, mix, bring to a boil and cook for about 8 minutes.
Dip the pieces of fish in the sauce, and then fry in a large amount of heated oil until they are covered with a golden crust. We spread rice and nuggets on a dish and decorate with greens. Enjoy your meal!