recipes

Crunchy Chicken Nuggets

Tips

Do-Ahead:

Assemble and refrigerate chicken nuggets up to 24 hours before baking. You may need to add 5 minutes to the bake time.

Nutrition Information:

Nutrition Information:

1 Serving (1 Serving):
  • Calories 290
    • (Calories from Fat 100)
  • Total Fat 11g
    • (Saturated Fat 5g,
    • Trans Fat 0g)
  • Cholesterol 85mg;
  • Sodium 550mg;
  • Total Carbohydrate 21g
    • (Dietary Fiber 2g,
    • Sugars 10g)
  • Protein 27g
Percent Daily Value*:
  • Vitamin A 10%;
  • Vitamin C 2%;
  • Calcium 8%;
  • Iron 30%
Exchanges:
  • 1/2 Starch;
  • 0 Fruit;
  • 1 Other Carbohydrate;
  • 0 Skim Milk;
  • 0 Low-Fat Milk;
  • 0 Milk;
  • 0 Vegetable;
  • 3 1/2 Very Lean Meat;
  • 0 Lean Meat;
  • 0 High-Fat Meat;
  • 1 1/2 Fat
Carbohydrate Choices:
  • 1 1/2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Serve nuggets with your favorite dipping sauce--BBQ, ketchup or honey.

Prep time:
15 Min
Total time:
40 Min
Makes:
4 servings
Ingredients
  • 2 cups Cheerios® cereal
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon mustard
  • 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs, cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
Directions
  1. Heat oven to 400°F. Spray with cooking spray or lightly grease 13x9-inch pan.
  2. Finely crush cereal. Stir together cereal, salt and pepper; set aside. In medium bowl, stir together milk, honey and mustard until blended. Dip chicken into milk mixture; coat with cereal mixture. Place chicken in pan; drizzle with melted butter.
  3. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until crust is golden and chicken is no longer pink in center.