The Lilly Pad: Fried Chicken Nuggets

If you have kids, I bet they love chicken nuggets. My girls do. I used to buy the frozen ones. I do not have a food label picture to show you. Next time you are at the grocery store, check out the label. I am sure there are ingredients in there you cannot pronounce. Not only that, they are very expensive. My girls also loved the ones from Chick-Fil-A. (I did too.) Notice both of those statements are 'past tense'. We have not laid our eyes on a Chick-Fil-A up here yet.

Michael and I both laugh every time we head to Glens Falls. There is a road sign for "Friendly's" resturant. From a distance, it looks exactly like the road sign for "Chick-Fil-A". We both always look at it and for a split second think - "THERE'S A CHICK-FIL-A!!!" But, of course, 65 miles per hour, you get to the sign pretty quick and your eyes focus a little closer on the sign and you see it is NOT Chick-Fil-A.

I gladly give you "Fried Chicken Nuggets". Hannah says they are better than Chick-Fil-A!!! That is a HUGE compliment - especially from my "Quality Control Food Inspector" (a.k.a. Hannah).

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. The numbers were missing when we arrived. I use an oven themometer. These marks are for 350. I put the first mark on there a little too soon. My oven takes about 30 minutes to preheat.

Pour some olive oil into a frying pan. Preheat the oil in the frying pan on medium heat. I normally start this first. By the time I cut up the chicken and coat it it is heated up enough.

Next, cut up your chicken into cubes. I use whole chicken breasts, cut into 4 strips and then cut into about 1 inch pieces.

Next, combine Plain Bread crumbs, salt and pepper (suited to your taste). When I finish up these breadcrumbs, I am going to make my own.

I normally use about 1 cup of bread crumbs, 1/2 tsp. salt and 1/4 tsp. pepper. I put them all in a bowl with a snap on lid. Then, I put some of the chicken chunks in and shake them all around to coat them.