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Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets

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Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, nut-free, no problem! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

You didn’t think I’d leave with just the side dish to one of the most favorite classic childhood dinner meals, did you? Never! I like to finish things I started; never leave a meal incomplete! Now, I’ve told you about my weird cravings for fish sticks awhile back, but chicken nuggets are something even stronger! Chicken nuggets are always a thing in our house (and still are a huge staple in my brother’s, 22-year-old, diet. I know…I did the grocery shopping!)

Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, nut-free, no problem! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

Chicken nuggets are sadly so ultra-processed and full of fillers, oils, and weird unnecessary things (even the allergy-friendly brands). Needless to say, I hadn’t had some good ole’ chicken nuggets in years. I missed that childhood favorite, dipped in pools of ketchup. Damn the gluten, soy, egg, dairy….(really, why do that have to make everything with soy, even the more “allergy-friendly” brands?) Soy is cheap and GMO…I guess that’s why. So unnecessary!

Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, nut-free, no problem! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

But hey, that just gives me a new challenge in the kitchen to tackle, which is fine by me. This old favorite of mine mustn’t be keep away from my belly! Have you ever met a child who scorned chicken nuggets? I don’t think so! It’s a fast food staple too and you know I won’t even begin to rant about that! It’s bad enough buying the processed ones at the grocery store, but the fast food versions? NOOOOO!

Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, nut-free, no problem! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

My healthy golden nuggets are breaded in crushed corn flakes, spices, and some mustard to help the breading stick, then baked to perfection in the oven with not a drop of oil in sight. Say goodbye to anything that’s a slurry of ground-up scariness or deep-fried and soaked in oil. You can pronounce the name of each ingredient here, see them all laid out, and probably have everything right in your kitchen at this very moment.

Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, nut-free, no problem! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

We can call these “classy nuggets”. Not only will the kiddos love them, but you, my dear (older) reader, will too! Since I feel as though I’m part kid, part adult, I know these are approved by the masses. Totally approved by the food allergy folks! Chicken nuggets are essential to any childhood, there’s no debate there! I guess there could be debate if you don’t make it homemade. Good thing you no have homemade tater tots, homemade ketchup, and now homemade chicken nuggets!

Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, nut-free, no problem! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

When your kids come running home from school and asking, “What’s for dinner? Chicken nuggets? Please!”, you can now heed to their demands of nuggets and ketchup without a hint of guilt. You’ll even have a perfect dinner for yourself as well! The whole family can sit down at the table and savor this childhood and family classic. A dinner full of conversation, healthy food, allergy-freedom, laughs, and love awaits!

Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets

Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, nut-free, no problem! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

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Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets

Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, nut-free, no problem! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

  • Author: Rebecca Pytell
  • Cook Time: 25 mins
  • Total Time: 25 mins
  • Yield: 4 1x
  • Category: Main
  • Cuisine: American
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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. Cut the chicken tenders into 1-inch pieces and place in a bowl with the dijon mustard to coat them.
  3. In a large plastic bag, combine all the breading ingredients and crush to a fineness of your liking.
  4. Pour the coated chicken into the breading bag and shake to coat.
  5. Add the fully coated chicken to a greased baking dish with any additional breading sprinkled on top, and bake for 25 minutes in the oven.

Notes

*If you’re allergic to corn, you can use a crispy rice cereal!

Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Just what the kids love and the moms can feel good about giving! Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets that are healthy, homemade, and free of the top 8 allergens! Egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, nut-free, no problem! Everyone can rejoice with this classic childhood dinner recipe and bring the health back to the family dinner table!

As they say, dinner is served! This will satisfy any chicken nugget craving you have, I guarantee you! I know my next task is to make homemade fish sticks…I will…eventually. For now, these nuggets will suit us all just fine. With some ketchup and potatoes, we just can’t go wrong!

So tell me:

+ Are/were your kids (or you) a chicken nugget lovers?

+ What’s a dinner meal you always asked for growing up?

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Comments

  1. Nikki Frank-Hamilton says

    Now you’ve gone and done it! LOL You have achieved it all. Chicken nuggets that are homemade are so good. We don’t make them often, and I usually use GF breadcrumbs, but I so need to try this, I never thought of using corn flakes. It’s on! Making these soon!

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  9. Mel says

    That’s exactly how we make ours (without the herbs) and the children love them! Dijon mustard is perfect for enhancing the taste of the meat, and the corn flakes give such lovely crispiness.

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  14. Pam says

    These look wonderful! My kids love chicken nuggets when they were small and still do (and so do !) Thanks for the gluten free option.

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  17. neil@neilshealthymeals.com says

    I wish I knew of how to make these for myself years ago instead of buying boxes and boxes of them from a well known burger joint!

    These are an awesome alternative. I wouldn’t hesitate to make these at any time for Lynne and I. 🙂

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  18. Demeter | Beaming Baker says

    These little nuggets are so perfectly golden and crispy looking! So cool that you created a much healthier version of the old childhood favorite. Also, love that you provided an alternative coating option for those who might be allergic corn. Such a fun recipe, Rebecca! 🙂

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  20. Rachael says

    These look delicious! I love that you used turmeric too. I developed gluten intolerance last year after my daughter was born. Pinning this, and plan to subscribe to see your future recipes!

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  25. Farrah says

    Yummy! 😀 I love this variation–it looks so good! Kinda sad that I recently just finished off my box of cornflakes, but once I obtain more, I’m gonna have to try this! <3

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  28. Julia Mueller says

    My gaaaah these look addicting! I love that you used corn flakes for an ultra crispy and tasty nugget experience. I could seriously see myself making a ginormous batch of these and sharing them with my 10 nieces and nephews..they’d be gone in 2 seconds flat!

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    • Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

      Haha, yes!!! I loved them! Good thing I only had to share with my mom 😉 I’d have to fight your nieces and nephews!

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  32. Michelle says

    We haven’t had chicken nuggets in eons here, but I bet my kids would love these! And I know my niece and nephews would as well! I try to avoid the processed stuff whenever I can. 🙂

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