Baked Chicken Nuggets

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 8
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 136.1
  • Total Fat: 2.6 g
  • Cholesterol: 34.1 mg
  • Sodium: 177.5 mg
  • Total Carbs: 11.6 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 0.4 g
  • Protein: 15.4 g

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Introduction

After much fiddling around, we found a combination of textures and flavors all my kids will eat as well as store bought nuggets. After much fiddling around, we found a combination of textures and flavors all my kids will eat as well as store bought nuggets.
Number of Servings: 8

Ingredients

    1 pound chicken breast
    1/4 cup flour (for dredging)
    1 cup buttermilk
    1 sleeve unsalted saltine crackers
    1 tsp Cajun poultry seasoning


Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400F degrees
2. Put the flour into a zip top bag
3. Cut chicken into bite size pieces
4. Drop the chicken into the bag and shake to coat.
5. Mix buttermilk and poultry seasoning in a bowl.
6. Dust off excess flour the nuggets
7. Move the nuggets into buttermilk mixture.
8. Crush the saltines
9. Remove the nuggets from the buttermilk and coat with the crushed saltines.
10. Place on a cookie sheet in a single layer
11. Bake at 400F for 20 minutes.

Makes 8 2oz portions

Number of Servings: 8

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user 15THC_ODETTE.