The Best Homemade Chicken Nuggets Recipe
The best chicken nuggets made super tender with buttermilk and delightfully crispy with cracker crumbs.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Main Course
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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- 1 lb chicken breast (cut into bite-sized pieces)
- 2 1/2 cups crushed crackers (about one sleeve of most brands should do it )
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 2 tsp hot sauce
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
Instructions
- Cut chicken into desired-size pieces. Place in a baking dish and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Mix hot sauce into buttermilk and pour over chicken. Store in the fridge over night.
- Crush the crackers in a ziplock bag until they are as fine as you can get them. Empty crumbs onto a plate. Whisk one egg on a plate (using a plate with slightly upturned edges helps).
- Set yourself up an assembly line: 1st: the bowl with the buttermilk soaked chicken, 2nd: egg mixture, 3rd: cracker crumbs.
- Dip and coat all your chicken and have it waiting for you as you cook. Set up a cooling rack lined with paper towels to place chicken nuggets on after frying.
- Heat oil over in a cast-iron skillet over medium heat. You can know the oil is heated enough if you dip a corner of a chicken piece in the oil and you hear a strong sizzle.
- Place chicken pieces in hot oil. Cook on each side approximately four minutes. Use a meat thermometer to confirm chicken reaches an internal temp of 165. You will need to do 2-3 batches. Don’t overcrowd the pan.
- Once cooked through, place on paper towel lined cooling rack to soak up excess oil.
- Enjoy!
Find it online: https://www.figjar.com/homemade-chicken-nuggets-recipe/