Easy chicken nuggets

This is our favourite TV dinner served with a side of veggies or salad.

Ingredients (serves 3)

2 Chicken breast - cut into small pieces
3-4 tbsp Red or green pesto
2-3 handfuls Bread crumbs or panko or crushed cornflakes
2-3 tbsp Oil

Method

Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
Put the chicken and pesto in a bowl and mix together until all the chicken is covered.
Pour the oil into a shallow baking dish, just enough to cover and place into the oven for 5 minutes.
Put the bread crumbs in a freezer bag and add the chicken in small batches. Shake each batch around until chicken pieces are coated.
Place the nuggets onto the heated baking tray, no pieces touching, and bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.

Notes

I usually make a big batch and freeze half. To freeze, place on a baking sheet, not touching, and freeze. When frozen, place in a bag or container and freeze until ready to bake.

152 Comments

- - Kasey said
  - 28 Dec 2015
    12:46 am
these look so much better then those processed fast food crap, thanks for sharing.

- - mom94378 said
  - 30 Nov 2015
    10:43 am
Sounds great, i prefer the red pesto incidentally.

- - crystalangela said
  - 17 Nov 2015
    9:03 pm
Love these home made nuggets so much more than store bought or takeaway.

- - taynik46 said
  - 02 Nov 2015
    1:01 pm
thankyou for sharing your nugget recipe – my girls love nuggest but I have yet to try cooking them from scratch – your simple recipe is now jotted down for me to try out this week – thank you 🙂

- - mom71809 said
  - 31 Oct 2015
    2:51 pm
the most simplest crumbing method I’ve ever heard of! Can’t wait to give this a go!

- - mom143044 said
  - 26 Oct 2015
    8:12 pm
Yum! Love these! Think my kids will as well. Can’t say I ever make nuggets, usually just buy them, but reckon I can give these a go.

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 23 Oct 2015
    7:30 am
Love the pesto in this recipe

- - mom81879 said
  - 24 Sep 2015
    3:13 pm
Awesome! Great to find an easy child friendly meal. My kids would gobble these up

- - Klsmith91 said
  - 02 Sep 2015
    12:39 pm
My daughter loves these! So easy and tasty

- - bedda1 said
  - 01 Sep 2015
    4:09 pm
Oh….what a great idea. I wonder if there’s a particular pesto brand that works best. I’d imagine you couldn’t use anything too chunky.

- - mom113055 said
  - 11 Aug 2015
    7:46 pm
i cnt have nugeet with no sauce

- - am1979amanda said
  - 11 Aug 2015
    7:44 pm
Great for a quick snack thanks for share

- - mom94378 said
  - 02 Aug 2015
    3:53 pm
bring on the footy fnals with these babies!

- - am1979amanda said
  - 27 Jul 2015
    9:52 pm
Yummy will try this thanks for share

- - am1979amanda said
  - 18 Jul 2015
    11:02 pm
Wow yummy look at this great recipe

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 04 Jul 2015
    2:50 pm
oh yum, I love this recipe – what a great way to make junk food healthy

- - memo said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    11:47 pm
a much healthier idea making your own nuggets

- - Jazbright said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    12:45 pm
My kids are going to love these!

- - mom113055 said
  - 29 Jun 2015
    10:03 pm
it s so really awesome exellent

- - Kell said
  - 27 Jun 2015
    5:12 pm
These are a HUGE hit in our home ..thank you