Fabulous Oven Baked Chicken Nuggets

Fabulous Oven Baked Chicken Nuggets

Makes around 25 nuggets.

Ingredients:

3 cups Corn Chex cereal

1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese (orginial recipe called for 1/2 cup of Parmesan Cheese)

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt (I didn't have this on hand so I googled what was in it)

1/4 teaspoon paprika

1/8 teaspoon garlic powder

3 tablespoons butter, melted

1 tablespoon milk

1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1 x 1-inch pieces

Preparation Directions:

1.  Heat oven to 400 degrees F.  Line cookie sheet with foil.  Crush cereal.  (To easily crush cereal, place in plastic bag or between sheets of waxed paper, and crush with rolling pin.)

2.  In medium bowl, stir together crushed cereal, cheese, salt, seasoned salt, paprika and garlic powder.  In a small bowl, stir together melted butter and milk.  Dip chicken into butter mixture, then roll in cereal mixture to coat evenly.  Place on cookie sheet.

3.  Bake 9 minutes; turn nuggets over.  Bake about 8 minutes longer or until coating is light golden brown and chicken is no longer pink in center.

Recipe Tips:

Coating the chunks is a snap when you work quickly with one fork in each hand.  Drop the chunks in the butter; turn to coat, then lift into crumbs with one fork.  Use the other hand (and fork) to turn and coat in the crumbs - voila, neatly coated chicken chunks!

Serve With:

 

We dipped our chicken nuggets in honey-mustard barbecue sauce and it was delicious!  Other sauces you can serve the nuggets with are: original barbecue sauce, sweet-and-sour sauce, or even ketcup.

We were surprised out tasty these chicken nuggets were being made with chex cereal.  My husband pleaded that we make them again soon.

(adapted to my liking from www.chex.com)