Today, a dish like poppy nuggets cooked at home will not surprise anyone at all. Making it is not at all difficult, but it turns out to be very tasty and nutritious. They can quite well diversify the family dinner, make it more original and interesting. But, nevertheless, you won’t often make such food, since slices of chicken fillet when deep-fried lose most of their useful properties and you get ordinary fast food, except maybe home-made. Although very tasty.
A bit of history
Which is a bit surprising, but it turns out that foods like poppy nuggets have a certain "parent" - Robert C. Baker, a professor of nutrition. While working at Cornell University, in 1950 he developed a very original recipe for making crispy chicken breadcrumbs. Almost thirty years later, in 1979, Tyson Foods adapted this dish for a network of fast-food establishments, the well-known McDonalds.
In the next few years, poppy nuggets appeared on the menu in the entire network of these restaurants. The dish, of course, is not the most useful, but there is a cooking method when the damage to the useful properties is minimal. We will tell you about him now.
Cooking chicken nuggets in the oven
With this option, when no extra fat is used at all, the finished dish is more or less useful and does not cause any harm to children. The following ingredients are needed: breadcrumbs - 100 grams, parmesan - 100 grams, chicken breast (or fillet) - two pieces, eggs - two, flour - two spoons, paprika, pepper, salt, oregano. So poppy nuggets - what is it?
These are slices of chicken fried in breadcrumbs. So, if you want to get the most delicious dish, make homemade crackers yourself, the taste of meat will be even brighter. Just regularly dry the slices of bread, there is nothing difficult and complicated in this. When necessary, twist them through a meat grinder, and crackers are ready to use.
Mac nuggets, recipe for cooking
With my chicken fillet, cut off unnecessary fat and films in it. After that, cut the meat with cubes of approximately the same size. Salt, add paprika, pepper, slightly dried herbs to taste, mix. Break the eggs into a small bowl. Rub parmesan and mix it with breadcrumbs. Pour whole grain flour into the bowl and place all the containers in the access zone, side by side. We also prepare a baking sheet, covering it with a silicone mat or baking paper.
Take a piece of chicken fillet and dip in the egg, then spread in flour and roll well, then dip again in the egg. Now - in a container with cheese and breadcrumbs, carefully roll. Then we put on a baking sheet and send in the oven preheated to 200 degrees, where we bake for 15-20 minutes.
Chicken Mack Nuggets cooked in this way are not the most juicy, since during baking most of the liquid evaporates. For another result, fry in a skillet in vegetable oil. Or turn the meat into minced meat with onions.
Recipe for Quick Home Nuggets
In this recipe, poppy nuggets are deep-fried vegetable oil slices of breaded chicken fillet. We need a minimal set of ingredients, and you can eat the finished dish with tomato, cheese or garlic sauce. So, we need: 300 grams of chicken, three eggs, two glasses of breadcrumbs, pepper, salt.
Cooking process
Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces, pepper and salt to taste. We take a deep plate and stir in it until the eggs are homogeneous, then dip each chicken piece in them.
After that, roll them in breadcrumbs. We heat the frying pan, pour the sunflower oil into it and fry our nuggets for five minutes on each side. The dish is ready. Serve with sauce or with a side dish, for example, with mashed potatoes. Are you curious about what
calorie poppy nuggets have? Per 100 grams of product: 43 kcal, protein - 2.9 grams, carbohydrates - 2.8 gamma and fat - 2.3 grams.
Mustard Mack Nuggets Recipe
Mac nuggets for this recipe are prepared entirely from homemade, natural products, which is their clear advantage over those served at McDonald's. It turns out very tasty. We will need the following products: chicken breast, flour, egg, milk, mustard, breadcrumbs. Each hostess determines the amount of each of the ingredients herself, based on her own experience and her preferences. Step by step recipe:
- Cut chicken breast with five-centimeter plates.
- We prepare a mixture of mustard, eggs, milk, two tablespoons, salt and black pepper, curry.
- Dip the breast into flour.
- Next - into the egg mixture.
- Then - in breadcrumbs.
- We put a frying pan on the stove, warm it well, pour in the sunflower oil and lay out the future nuggets so that their oil completely covers.
- Fry until golden brown, turn over, after ready take out a paper towel, let the excess oil soak into the paper.
- Can be served.
Another Chicken Nuggets Recipe
This method is for those who like to treat their children with such a dish, and the McDonald's restaurant products are not very trusted. Ingredients: one kilogram of chicken breast, one lemon, one teaspoon of starch, the same amount of baking soda, flour, pepper, salt. Cooking your favorite poppy nuggets. Cut the chicken breasts across the fibers into oblong small pieces, salt and add baking soda, and then sprinkle with plenty of lemon juice.
After the soda begins to quench, add starch and mix. Leave for 15 minutes, let all the necessary processes be completed. Then - all very quickly - we roll each piece of chicken meat in flour and fry it in vegetable oil in a frying pan until golden brown. You can serve it with or without sauce on the table. In any case, it will be very tasty. Enjoy your meal!