If chicken fingers and nuggets are all your kids want for dinner, try these quick and easy recipes instead of resorting to fast food.
Adding ground pecans to the chicken's coating mixture gives the chicken fingers a pleasing nutty flavor and a little bit of extra crunch. And, because they're baked instead of fried, these chicken fingers are a healthy kid-friendly dinner option.
Recipe: Fried Pecan Chicken Fingers
For a super-easy weeknight dinner, start with frozen breaded chicken breast strips and add a little kick with Buffalo-style hot sauce. If the heat is too much for the kids, just omit that step.
Recipe: Buffalo Chicken Fingers with Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce
The coating of breadcrumbs and crushed cornflakes makes these chicken fingers extra crispy. And because they're baked instead of fried, they have less than 4 grams of fat per serving.
Recipe: Oven Fried Chicken Fingers with Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce
Healthy chicken nuggets are a mother's dream because there's no need to feel guilty about serving the kids nuggets every night. There's also no need to do fast food drive-through.
Sneak a few extra vitamins into your weeknight meals by serving tasty sweet potato fries with these oven-fried, bite-size chicken nuggets.
Recipe: Chicken Nuggets and Sweet Fries
These nuggets bring on the heat with a coating of Parmesan cheese and crushed spicy pita chips. If your family's not into spicy foods, you can use regular pita chips.
Recipe: Kickin' Chicken Nuggets
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