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Parmesan Crusted Chicken Nuggets with 3 Homemade Dipping Sauces

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By: The Chunky Chefpublished: 12/04/2014

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Amazingly crispy and flavorful baked Parmesan crusted chicken nuggets that both kids and adults will love! Ready in 30 minutes!

Say goodbye to fast food chicken nuggets, they can’t come close to comparing to the flavor of these extra crispy Parmesan chicken nuggets!

Parmesan Crusted Chicken Nuggets | The Chunky Chef | Amazingly crispy and flavorful baked Parmesan crusted chicken nuggets that both kids and adults will love! Ready in 30 minutes!

Who doesn’t love a good chicken nugget?  But the next time you want some, instead of reaching for the bag of frozen nuggets or running out to a fast food place… try these!  Toasted panko breading, plenty of parmesan cheese, and all white meat chicken breasts are the stars of this simple yet delicious recipe 🙂

Start with some boneless skinless chicken breasts, sliced, then diced into chunks.

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Then toast your panko breadcrumbs in the oven for a few minutes.  This gives your nuggets a toasty flavor and beautiful golden brown color 🙂  Transfer your panko breadcrumbs to a shallow dish and add in your grated parmesan cheese.  In another bowl, beat your eggs with a splash of water.  In yet another bowl, add some flour and season with salt and pepper.  Now your breading station is complete!

Preheat your oven and place a wire cooling rack inside a baking sheet.  Spray the rack with a little cooking spray.  Start breading your chicken by tossing the pieces in the flour, turning them around in the eggs, and then coating them in the panko mixture.  Once they’re fully coated, place them one at a time on the rack.

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Bake for 12-15 minutes, turning over halfway through.

While the chicken is baking you can make your sauces.  Now you can choose any combination of these sauces, or just do one… whatever works for you 🙂  For my family I needed to do all three lol.  My husband wanted spicy, I wanted smoky, and the kids prefer sweet.  So time for the spicy sriracha ketchup with cilantro, copycat Red Robin’s campfire sauce, and copycat TGI Friday’s honey mustard sauce.

Just whisk the ingredients together and set aside in their bowls.

Honey mustard
Honey mustard
Spicy sriracha ketchup with cilantro
Spicy sriracha ketchup with cilantro

Your chicken will come out golden brown and delicious and with these sauces, the nuggets will go quickly!!  This breading mixture is simple, but wow it sure is good.

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Check out how yummy these sauces are!

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Recipes adapted from Rasa Malaysia and Food.com

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Of course you could make the sauces ahead of time and let them hang out in the refrigerator if you wanted 🙂  I hope you enjoy it!!

Amazingly crispy and flavorful baked Parmesan crusted chicken nuggets that both kids and adults will love!

Parmesan Crusted Chicken Nuggets | The Chunky Chef | Amazingly crispy and flavorful baked Parmesan crusted chicken nuggets that both kids and adults will love! Ready in 30 minutes!

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Parmesan Crusted Chicken Nuggets

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Author: The Chunky Chef
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
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Not your average chicken nugget... try them and you'll be hooked!

Ingredients

  • 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 2 cup panko breadcrumbs
  • 1/2 cup grated Parmesan
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/8 tsp pepper
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 eggs beaten

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut the chicken into bite size pieces
  • Spread panko in a thin layer on rimmed baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes, until golden brown.
  • Transfer the panko to a shallow dish and mix in the Parmesan and coarse salt. Drizzle the oil and mix well. Set out the flour and eggs in separate dishes.
  • Increase the oven temperature to 450°F. Place a wire rack on the baking sheet, spray lightly with cooking spray.
  • Working in small batches, coat the chicken in flour, shaking off any excess, dip in egg, and then coat well with panko. Transfer to the rack. Bake the chicken 12-15 minutes, turning over halfway through.

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The Chunky Chef is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.

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Spicy Sriracha Ketchup with Cilantro

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Author: The Chunky Chef
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Total Time: 2 minutes
Servings: 1 /3 cup
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Spicy and fresh, this dipping sauce really packs a punch!

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup ketchup
  • 1/2 - 2 Tbsp  Sriracha depending on how spicy you want it to be... sriracha is HOT
  • 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
  • Juice of 1/2 lime
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 2 Tbsp cilantro finely minced

Instructions

  • Whisk ingredients together, set aside.

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Copycat Red Robin Campfire Sauce

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Prep Time: 2 minutes
Total Time: 2 minutes
Servings: 1 cup
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Creamy, smoky and delicious!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup hickory BBQ sauce (use your favorite brand but just make sure it's a smoky flavor)
  • 1/2 cup bottled ranch dressing
  • 2 Tbsp mayo

Instructions

  • Whisk ingredients together, set aside.

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Copycat TGIFriday's Honey Mustard Sauce

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Author: The Chunky Chef
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Total Time: 2 minutes
Servings: 1 1/4 cups
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Such a classic sauce, you'll love it!

Ingredients

  • 2 Tbsp yellow mustard
  • 4 Tbsp honey
  • 1 Tbsp white vinegar
  • 1/2 cup mayo
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  • Whisk ingredients together, set aside.

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  1. Ana Lucia Lima says

    Posted on 10/27 at 11:24 am

    Recipe wonderful

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  2. miranda papandreou says

    Posted on 12/7 at 7:52 pm

    My toddler is in the “I no yike it” phase of life, but THIS I think he would actually eat!

    Reply
  3. Aruna Panangipally says

    Posted on 12/6 at 12:58 pm

    Yes, yes, I am licking the screen. 🙂 What an amazing range of sauces!

    Reply
    • MyAdventuresInDinnerTime says

      Posted on 12/6 at 1:35 pm

      Glad I wasn’t the only one! Lol 🙂 Thank you!!

      Reply
  4. Michelle @ Giraffes Can Bake says

    Posted on 12/5 at 10:03 pm

    I would definitely visit a certain fast food place more often if their chicken nuggets looked as yummy as these! I might have to make these for my Atlanta family! And I can see why you made three sauces, I couldn’t choose between them either 😉 haha

    Thanks for sharing with us at Fiesta Friday!

    Reply
    • MyAdventuresInDinnerTime says

      Posted on 12/5 at 10:49 pm

      Thank you!!!! Haha, variety is the spice of life… more sauces is always a good thing 😉 If you make them, I hope you love them!

      Reply
  5. MB @ Bourbon and Brown Sugar says

    Posted on 12/5 at 7:55 pm

    Oh my goodness… could you come over and cook for my family? They would love this! Yum! Especially the honey mustard sauce. Thanks so much for bringing this to Fiesta Friday!

    Reply
    • MyAdventuresInDinnerTime says

      Posted on 12/5 at 8:33 pm

      Lol you’re so sweet, thank you!! This is definitely a family friendly kind of meal 😀

      Reply
  6. Julie is HostessAtHeart says

    Posted on 12/4 at 11:59 pm

    I wish I would have thought of this when my kids were young! Your sauces have me drooling. They can be used for a lot of dippy food like pretzel bites!

    Reply
  7. Packing my Suitcase says

    Posted on 12/4 at 6:49 pm

    Thats pretty awesome. I have never thought about making nuggets… I always make something similar to this, but with the chicken breast. Now I know hahaa… great idea, thank you 😀

    Reply
    • MyAdventuresInDinnerTime says

      Posted on 12/4 at 7:06 pm

      Thank you!!! I’m sure you’ll LOVE the nuggets, they’re so cute 🙂

      Reply
      • Packing my Suitcase says

        Posted on 12/6 at 3:48 pm

        You’re welcome!!! Im sure I will, they look delicious… I need to try them soon! 😀

        Reply
  8. skd says

    Posted on 12/4 at 5:27 pm

    Yummm… I loved that you added Parmesan to the bread crumbs ☺

    Reply
    • MyAdventuresInDinnerTime says

      Posted on 12/4 at 6:46 pm

      Thank you! Parmesan is sooooo good 🙂

      Reply
  9. Nancy says

    Posted on 12/4 at 3:10 pm

    Looks like you created a meal to make the entire family happy…Lol…3 sauces – sounds like my family. 🙂 All of the sauces sound delicious, and I love the addition of parmesan to your nuggets! They look crispy and yummy!

    Reply
    • MyAdventuresInDinnerTime says

      Posted on 12/4 at 3:19 pm

      Thank you!!! Lol yeah we all have our different tastes 🙂 I was pleasantly surprised at how crispy they were!

      Reply
  10. Steve says

    Posted on 12/4 at 1:16 pm

    Those look so good! It’s kind of an insult to these to lump them in the ‘chicken nuggets’ category with all those rubber fast food nuggets.

    Reply
    • MyAdventuresInDinnerTime says

      Posted on 12/4 at 1:30 pm

      Thank you!! Lol true, they’re definitely nothing like those 🙂

      Reply

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