Instead of standing in long lines at fast-food restaurants, prepare tasty chicken nuggets in your air fryer at home! Thanks to quick pickle brine, this easy nugget dish boasts crunchy breading and a very juicy interior! That's right! You read that correctly.
Chicken Nuggets in an Air fryer
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Category
Chicken Dish
Servings
6-8
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
36 minutes
Instead of standing in long lines at fast-food restaurants, prepare tasty chicken nuggets in your air fryer at home! Thanks to quick pickle brine, this easy nugget dish boasts crunchy breading and a very juicy interior! That's right! You read that correctly.
Hazel Fabro
Ingredients
- 1.5 pounds chicken breast
- 2 cups brine
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 3 eggs
- 1.5 cups breadcrumbs
- cooking spray
- ½ cup mustard
- ¼ cup honey
Directions
- Cut the chicken into nuggets
- Soak the nuggets in the brine for 30 minutes
- Mix flour, garlic powder, salt, and pepper in a bowl
- Whisk eggs until smooth
- Coat the chicken nuggets with flour mixture
- Dip into the eggs
- Coat with breadcrumbs
- Spray the basket with nonstick cooking spray
- Place the chicken nuggets into the basket
- Air fry at 350˚F for 6 minutes
- Flip and air fry for another 6 minutes
- Make mustard and honey sauce
1 comment
Sounds good but how do you make the brine? Just opened my air fryer, excited to try it out 😊