I especially love to make other super easy homemade sauces like fry sauce and BBQ sauce to dip them in too!
Ingredients in Homemade Chick Fil A Nuggets
So, here’s a spoiler alert—the secret ingredient is pickle juice! It’s what gives these nuggets their authentic flavor. Check out the recipe card at the bottom of the post for all of the exact measurements.
Chicken Nuggets
Chicken breasts: Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces. Buttermilk: Adding buttermilk to the marinade helps to tenderize the chicken. Pickle juice: The pickle juice adds a vinegary and salty flavor to the coating. Egg: Helps bind the marinade ingredients together. Flour: The base of the breading mixture. Panko Bread Crumbs: Gives the perfect texture to the chicken nuggets! Garlic and Onion Powder: Perfect seasonings to flavor the chicken. Salt: The salt brings out all the flavors in the chicken and its breading. Pepper: To taste. Oil: Use canola or vegetable oil if you desire, but peanut oil is what gives these nuggets their signature flavor because that’s Chick-fil-A uses!
Chick-fil-A Sauce
Mayonnaise: Creates the oily base. Mustard: Gives the spice to the sauce. Lemon juice: The lemon juice keeps the flavor of this sauce fresh and light. Honey: The perfect smooth sticky sweetness. Smokey BBQ sauce: The smokiness of the BBQ sauce rounds out all the flavors.
How to Make Chicken Nuggets
These nuggets are so easy to make. I love to double or triple the recipe so that I can have some on hand for later!
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