Kids love chicken nuggets. Everybody knows that.

So I say, if you can't beat them at least make a healthy version of it.

So that's what we're going to do today.

We're going to make real chicken nuggets.

So, the kind of chicken that I use is chicken thighs.

You can get boneless, skinless chicken thighs [SOUND].

That's what they look like when they come

from the butcher. And it's not too fatty, but it's dark

meat, so it's not too dry like breast, and it comes out quite nicely.

And what you have to do is cut them into

approximately the size of a chicken nugget.

It doesn't matter if some of them are smaller or some are bigger,

because in general, if you tell them they are chicken nuggets, and you

present them in a nice way they won't mind if they don't look

exactly like the thing that comes from McDonald's, or a place like that.

So we're just going to keep cutting these up.

Okay, so there are my chicken nuggets.

I'm just going to wash my hands, because

I've been touching chicken. >> [SOUND]

>> I'm going to refrigerate the part that I'm not using.

Because you don't want to leave chicken sitting out for a long time.

>> [SOUND] And then we're going to basically bread these chicken nuggets.

Now, I have, my four year old can't

have any gluten, or any wheat.

So, I'm going to use a gluten free flour,

but you can just as easily use regular wheat flour.

That's going to be our step one.

And then, we're going to take some bread crumbs.

And I use gluten free panko bread crumbs, but

if you can get regular panko crumbs, it's great.

And you can actually do this with fish, as well.

You don't need to use chicken.

Anything that you want breaded and crispy on the outside, this is a great pattern.

In the middle go the eggs.

And then we're going to take these little pieces,

and we're going to go flour, egg, bread crumbs.

Flour, egg, and bread crumbs, and that is how you

get that golden, crispy looking thing, that they love to eat.

So we're getting ready to fry our

chicken nuggets, our real chicken nuggets, and this

so easy.

All you have to do is pour a little bit of olive oil

onto your pan, and you just want to kind of coat the bottom of the pan.

It's not deep frying so we don't want it to be soaking in olive oil.

There, now my pan is getting coated.

Okay, I think my oil is hot enough now, so

I'm going to transfer my chicken nuggets onto this nice preheated pan.

[SOUND] Yep, you can hear it start to sizzle, so that's a good sign.

The only other thing we have to do

is to put some salt on this. So

I'm just going to take my salt shaker and add a bit of flavor.

And we'll do that on the other side as well.

And now we just wait.

If you see that there are bits of your pan that are

getting dry, you can just drop a little bit more oil on there.

And then we just have to make sure that the chicken is cooked

all the way through because you don't want to feed raw chicken to a child.

And then hopefully you'll get some nice golden

brown nuggets that your kids will want to eat.

Okay, I can smell these guys cooking, so I'm going to start to flip them.

There we go.

And you can see they've got a nice crispy shell on the outside.

That

actually makes my mouth water.

And the thing is, if your going to serve

this to your child for dinner, you probably

give them 1 or 2, you don't want to give them a huge amount of meat.

But if you serve them this with a nice

side of vegetables and maybe some kind of either potato,

or pasta, or rice, or something on the side

you have a balanced meal, and they'll really love it.

So I'm going to put a bit of salt on

this side, again not too much because it's for young children.

But there's a little bit of salt on there for flavor.

And then we just let it cook on the other side until the chicken gets

cooked all the way through. Want chicken nuggets.

>> [LAUGH], What do you want?

>> Chicken nuggets. >> Huh?

>> Chicken nuggets. I didn't hear you.

I like chicken nuggets.

It's delicious. >> Mm.

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Chicken Nuggets

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