Copycat Chick-fil-A Chicken Nuggets & Sauce Recipe
on Sep 03, 2014, Updated Jan 30, 2024
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This Copycat Chick-fil-A Chicken Nuggets & Sauce Recipe is officially our kiddos favorite. We enjoy making CopyCat Recipes at home to save $$’s. Chick-fil-A is always quite a budget buster for us when we take the family to eat a full meal. The hubby makes our CopyCat Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich Recipe and CopyCat Chick- Fil-A Chicken Salad Sandwich quite often and the kids love it. We enjoy a CopyCat Chick-fil-A Lemonade with homemade waffle fries to save $$’s. Last week we went to eat at Chick-fil-A (gasp.. the bill was crazy expensive) and the kiddos order themselves Chick-fil-A Nuggets with Chick-fil-A dipping sauce. I am telling you this trip was a small fortune.
Copycat Chick-fil-A Chicken Nuggets & Sauce Recipe
Our entire family LOVES Chick-fil-A We make our trips into a special dinner due to the cost. Yesterday the kiddos asked if we could take a trip to Chick-fil-A again. My immediate response was “Um…No” lol. The hubby decided to not allow them to be disappointed and make them a homemade Chick-fil-A Chicken Nuggets & Sauce. He was a lifesaver as I hate to disappoint my kiddos.
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The ingredients to make your own Copycat Chick-fil-A Chicken Nuggets & Sauce Recipe are quite simple. The most important ingredient has got to be the pickle juice (hands down). Allowing the chicken to soak up all that pickle flavor makes these nuggets perfect. Oh and Peanut Oil too… it’s a must.
INGREDIENTS
Sauce:
1/2 cup Ken’s Steakhouse Honey Mustard Dressing
1 tsp Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce
1/2 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
Nuggets:
1 cup Dill Pickle Juice
1 lb Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
1 Egg
1 cup Milk
1 1/2 cup Flour
3 tbsp Powdered Sugar
2 tsp Salt
1 1/2 tsp Pepper
1/2 tsp Paprika
Peanut Oil
DIRECTIONS
Combine honey mustard and BBQ sauce. Set aside.
Cut chicken into roughly 1″ pieces and place in zippered bag with pickle juice to marinate in refigerator for at least 4 hours.
Mix together milk and egg in a large bowl.
Drain pickle juice from chicken and add chicken to egg mixture.
Toss to ensure all pieces are coated.
Drain excess egg mixture.
Heat oil on medium high to about 375.
In a zippered bag, add flour powdered sugar, paprika, salt and pepper. Shake well to mix.
Add chicken to zippered bag and shake to coat.
Cook chicken pieces in oil for until crispy and browned (about 3 to 4 minutes).
Drain on paper towels.
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Copycat Chick-fil-A Chicken Nuggets & Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- Sauce:
- 1/2 cup Ken's Steakhouse Honey Mustard Dressing
- 1 tsp Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce
- 1/2 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
- Nuggets:
- 1 cup Dill Pickle Juice
- 1 lb Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
- 1 Egg
- 1 cup Milk
- 1 1/2 cup Flour
- 3 tbsp Powdered Sugar
- 2 tsp Salt
- 1 1/2 tsp Pepper
- 1/2 tsp Paprika
- Peanut Oil
Instructions
- Combine honey mustard and BBQ sauce. Set aside.
- Cut chicken into roughly 1" pieces and place in zippered bag with pickle juice to marinate in refigerator for at least 4 hours.
- Mix together milk and egg in a large bowl.
- Drain pickle juice from chicken and add chicken to egg mixture.
- Toss to ensure all pieces are coated.
- Drain excess egg mixture.
- Heat oil on medium high to about 375.
- In a zippered bag, add flour powdered sugar, paprika, salt and pepper. Shake well to mix.
- Add chicken to zippered bag and shake to coat.
- Cook chicken pieces in oil for until crispy and browned (about 3 to 4 minutes).
- Drain on paper towels.
Will these still taste the same if I don’t have peanut oil? I have sesame oil and regular vegetable oil. Help! :)
Yes, when does the apple cider get added? It is not mentioned later…I’m assuming it is added the same time you mix the bbq sauce and honey mustard?
The Apple Cider is for if you wanted to make the sauce that goes with the nuggets. It is not included in the ingredients to make the nuggets.
So out of sheer curiosity, what exactly is the purpose of the pickle juice? I was very surprised to read that the chicken needs to marinate in it for four hours. What does this do to the taste? (I have picky eaters who hate pickles) I’m not exactly a cooking/frying guru, so I’m sure this is a simple answer that I’m just oblivious to. :)
The pickle juice acts as a brine which makes the chicken more juicy than normal. There is only a very slight hint of pickle that most people would not even notice.
They actually came out rather pickle-y and I only marinaded them for 2 hours. Disappointing because I made a lot for the whole house and no one liked them.
When does the 1/2 tsp apple cider vinegar come into play??
These look so good, yum! Thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with Full Plate Thursday. Have a great week and come back soon!
Miz Helen
Thanks for sharing your post at Motivation Monday last week! Your post is one of this week’s features!
My boys love Chick Fil A. I am going to try this recipe out for sure. Thanks for linking up at #ThrowbackThursdayLP. I cannot wait to see what you link up next week.
This looks so good- love Chick-Fil-A. PInned it. Found your blog on The Hearth and Soul Blog link party and started following on Google +.
Erin
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Thank you, these made a yummy supper. I think my frying skills could be better but I made lots of nuggets from 2 large chicken breasts. What a tasty treat at a fraction of the cost.
Just a quick but stupid question. “Drain pickle juice from chicken and add to egg mixture. ” I am to add the chicken to the egg mix, not the pickle juice to the egg mix?
Not a stupid question at all! It was not worded very well, so I am glad you spotted it. I have changed it to read “Drain pickle juice from chicken and add chicken to egg mixture.” Thanks again for helping me to clarify it.