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air fryer chicken nuggets

Air Fryer Chicken Nuggets

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings: 5 people
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American

Ingredients
  

  • 1.5 - 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast
  • 1 -1.5 cups panko crumbs
  • 1 - 1.5 cups milk
  • 1/2 - 1 tsp turmeric optional
  • 1/2 - 1 tsp black pepper optional
  • 1/2 - 1 tsp salt optional
  • 1/2 - 1 tsp hot sauce optional
  • 1 - 2 sprays cooking spray

Equipment

  • 1 air fryer
  • 1 meat mallet
  • 1 cutting board
  • 2 mixing bowls

Method
 

  1. Prepare the chicken breast. To do this, place the chicken breast on a cutting board.  Next, trim any pieces of the breast off that you don’t want to cook.  
  2. Then, take the meat hammer and hammer the chicken breast down to about ½ - ¼ inch thickness
  3. After that, cut the chicken breast into cubes to about 1 to 1 ½ inches cubes
  4. Next, prepare your air fryer.  Do this, by pre-heating the air fryer to 375 degrees
  5. While the air fryer is pre-heating pour about 1 – 1 ½ cups of your preferred milk in a bowl and put about 1 – 1 ½ cups of panko crumbs into another bowl. (Feel free to add any seasonings or spices you desire to the crumbs and mix them in.) 
  6. After that, pour about 1 – 1 ½ cups of your preferred milk in another bowl.
  7. Take a fork or spoon and put a cube of chicken in the milk.  Let the chicken fully emerge in the milk and then drop it into the panko crumbs.  Move the chicken around in the crumbs until every side of the cube is covered.  
  8. After that spray the air fryer basket with cooking spray and add the panko covered chicken to the air fryer basket. Cook the nuggets for 7-8 minutes, then flip and cook for 7-8 minutes on the other side.