No matter how you struggle with the addiction of your family's younger generation to fast food, the best dishes for children will still be hamburgers, french fries and chicken nuggets (nuggets). And if you want such dishes to do as little harm to growing organisms as possible, you will have to master their production in your own kitchen. You surely follow the quality of the starting products, and the fact that the oil does not burn, and the absence of dyes, stabilizers and flavorings. It is possible that the dish will be appreciated by all family members, including a strict mother, since it’s easy to make chicken nuggets, the children will certainly not be hungry, and the taste of this snack can be varied and even made it refined and elegant.
Cooking secrets
Most often, nuggets are prepared from chicken fillet, cut into small pieces. In order for the dish to be definitely possible and not cause complaints from the children, it is worth considering some nuances:
- When beating the fillet, the main thing is not to overdo it and not turn it into a sheet of paper. If, however, it turned out too thin, the plate rolls up in a tube and is breaded in this form.
- Chicken nuggets are fried very quickly at home. So it’s not recommended to leave the pan for a short while: they’ll burn.
- Slicing should not be too large, otherwise the slices are fried for a long time and lose their juiciness.
- To make the appearance of the dish correspond to the reference - McDonald's, turmeric and ground red pepper are added to the breading, but not hot, but sweet, paprika.
It is necessary to cook a dish enticing for children at once, so that nothing remains for tomorrow. Lying nagens no longer crunch and can be ignored by whims.
Cheese nuggets
To get started, before you get comfortable with an unfamiliar dish, prepare standard, most ordinary chicken nuggets. Grams 400 breasts without skin or already cut fillet are cut into strips. Pre-beat the breast or not, establish empirically - as your family likes best. 200 g of any inexpensive hard cheese is rubbed on the smallest grater found among the dishes. Two eggs beat until smooth. The main thing that attracts people to chicken nuggets is crisp. For its acquisition, multilayer "packaging" is required. First, each slice of chicken is crushed in flour, and its excesses are carefully brushed off. Then it is dipped into an egg, after which it is breaded in cheese. Want to get a thick shell - repeat the approaches two to three times. Oil is poured into the pan, and sunflower is also quite suitable, only odorless. How hot, proceed to frying. Ready chicken nuggets are laid out on paper napkins (towels) or in a colander so that the glass is excess oil.
Minced meat nuggets
People complaining about the dryness and insufficient juiciness of a bird’s breast should not give up their favorite dish, since chicken can be cooked from minced meat. Thanks to grinding, the meat becomes much more tender and softer, so that it will be able to satisfy even categorically unacceptable fillets. Half a kilo of the same breasts with skin removed is rotated in a meat grinder with two sprigs of basil (you can parsley or dill). The minced meat is flavored with pepper, salt and selected seasonings, placed in a bag and beaten well on the table. Balls or sticks are formed from the mass (it will be somewhat more difficult to work with them in the future). Subsequent actions - as in the previous recipe, only breadcrumbs are used instead of cheese. It is necessary to fry the chicken nuggets from minced meat for about five minutes, and after that again lay out for draining the oil in a colander or on towels.
Lemon recipe
When ordinary chicken nuggets are already easily fried, the recipe can be complicated by adding new flavor notes to the dish. For example, pre-marinate meat. A very delicate result is obtained if you mix a glass of milk with a quarter glass of natural lemon juice, season the marinade with paprika, ground black pepper and salt and pour them slices of fillet overnight. In this case, only flour is used for breading, and it will take about one minute to fry the slices.
Mexican recipe
Until now, frying has been used as a culinary treatment. But no less tasty and juicy are the chicken nuggets in the oven. They come out very original if they are breaded in a glass of crackers mixed with a bag of seasoning for tacos and a tablespoon of melted butter. This amount of breading is enough for a pound of chicken meat. Fillet sliced in strips is dipped in a beaten egg, and then transferred to the mixture and well mixed in it. The meat is laid out on a baking sheet and baked for a quarter of an hour at 170 degrees Celsius.
Chinese variations
Chinese chicken nuggets are especially successful when baked on the grill or barbecue grill. But if the picnic is not planned, and your stove is not equipped with a grill, you can use a simple oven. For marinade, vermouth is mixed with soy sauce (a quarter cup each), pour in a spoonful of sugar and grated ginger root, a couple of crushed garlic cloves and a dessert spoon of cayenne pepper. In a deep bowl, a suitably chopped breast is poured with such a marinade and left for four hours for pickling. For convenience of eating and as a reminder that the dish is still Chinese, a skewer or a toothpick is stuck in every piece of chicken when serving.
Mustard with honey
Such chicken nuggets are interesting not only with the mixture used instead of the egg, but also with breading. For a pound of meat, a quarter cup of thick mayonnaise and mustard are mixed, two tablespoons of natural liquid honey and salt are added - about a quarter of a spoon, but adjust to your liking. A half kilogram of breasts is cut, slices are dipped into the composition so that it sticks to pieces on all sides. Unsweetened corn flakes are pounded or ground for breading , about one and a half glasses. Chicken strips are crumbled in them, placed on a sheet and put in a furnace heated to 200 degrees for a quarter of an hour. Flakes can be replaced with chips, such as cheese.
Shell nuggets
A very unconventional, albeit somewhat oily, dish. Two fillets are cut in strips, and bacon in strips. Each piece of chicken is wrapped in a bacon ribbon, which is fixed with a toothpick. For the sauce, half a glass of orange marmalade, two tablespoons of soy sauce, a little dried garlic in powder, half a spoon of ginger (also powdered, dried) and salt are mixed. After keeping the meat in the marinade for half an hour, it is placed for ten minutes in the oven, after it is turned over and baked for another five minutes. The taste is amazing!