Easy peasy healthy chicken nuggets that cook in no time. Pair them with some Chik-fil-A sauce and you’ve got yourself quite a meal.
Ingredients:
- 1 lb chicken breast, cubed
- 1 egg
- ½ C almond flour (or whatever you have available)
- 1 tbsp pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tbsp garlic powder
- ½ tbsp paprika
- 1 tsp chipotle powder
- 1 tsp chili pepper flakes
- Olive oil spray*
- 1 C Pickle juice*
Now you make it:
- Preheat oven to 400 or air fryer to 370
- Whisk egg in bowl and set aside
- Combine flour and dry ingredients in separate shallow dish
- Dip chicken cubes into flour, egg wash, and then into flour mixture again, evenly coating both sides
- If oven baking- line a baking sheet with foil and then a wire baking rack if available and spread out nuggets evenly. Bake for 6 minutes, flip, and bake for 6 more minutes. Broil for 2 min at the end of the 12 minutes
- If using the air fryer- put only half of the nuggets into the tray so they are not overly crowded. Give a good spray of olive oil, cook for 4 minutes, take out to flip and spray liberally again, and cook for 4 more minutes
- Serve immediately with sauce of choice, or none at all!
*Olive oil spray is to help crip up the nuggets and avoid dry flour patches once cooked through. I have never sprayed the ones going into the oven but I imagine that it would work the same to help them be crispier.
* For a easy healthier copycat Chik-fil-A chicken nugget, soak cubed chicken in 1 C pickle juice for 30 minutes before breading
Enjoy!
If you liked this recipe, try my other easy healthy bars here
