Bang Bang Chicken Nuggets | Food Wishes

Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with bang bang chicken nuggets.

That's right, I'm going to show you my take on bang bang chicken, which actually might

be closer to boom boom chicken.

Right, this is kind of both. So what I'm trying to say is, I'd really love it if you called this bang bang boom boom chicken.

Oh yeah, people are going to enjoy saying that, but not as much as

they're going to enjoy eating this. And to get started, we'll go ahead and cut up some chicken for our nuggets.

And for this, I use both boneless, skinless chicken breast and boneless, skinless

chicken thighs, but this will work with all one or the other.

And all we need to do to prep this is cut into, like, one, one and a half inch strips, and

then we'll simply slice across that every inch or so to create some, hopefully, fairly uniform pieces.

And yes, as you can see from the dramatic shadows, I did this early in the morning, which is not common for me, right?

I'm normally not up and working until the

crack of noon. But anyway, once we have our chicken cut up, we will transfer that into a food processor along with the rest of our nugget ingredients, which will

include some bread crumb, some salt, of course.

We'll also do some freshly ground black pepper, a little bit of paprika, which could be regular or smoked, and then I think we definitely want a little bit of cayenne,

because bang bang. And then we'll finish

up with some garlic powder, as well as a little drizzle of oil, just for a little extra richness and to help keep our nuggets moist and tender.

And that's it, we'll pop on the lid and

pulse this on and off until our chicken's ground as finely as we want, which for me is not going to be super fine.