Chicken Nuggets with Hidden Vegetables

Oh, I remember the days when the kids ate everything I put on their plates... They even used to eat Weetabix with yogurt, a meal we used to call affectionately "food for horses". Once upon a time rice cakes used to be called cookied in our house.

Unfortunately, as they grew up, the variety of foods they were willing to eat drastically decreased. In addition, My kids refuse to coordinate their love of food. So he will take his toast with ketchup, Emmental cheese and no olives, and she will only eat it without ketchup and with mozzarella cheese and olives. He loves spaghetti bolognese, she likes plain pasta. He loves honey, she likes maple sauce. I guess you get the point... One of the few things both eat is junk food, like McDonald's chicken nuggets. Since we really try to avoid junk food, I decided to make chicken nuggets at home, and even make them as healthy as possible. Surprisingly, it worked for us very well. Hopefully it'll work for you as well :)

You'll need:
1kg (2.205 pound) boneless chicken breast
1 onion
1 peeled and diced potato
1 peeled and diced sweet potato
1 peeled and diced carrot
1 peeled and diced zucchini
2-3 garlic cloves, minced
2-3 eggs
3 tbsp. all purpose flour
salt and pepper
bread crumbs
oil

 

Grind together chicken and onion.

 

 

Cook in water the rest of the vegetables, except for the garlic. Cook until soft enough to mash it with a fork, but not too soft.

 

 

Add garlic, eggs, flour, salt and pepper.
Mix until everything looks blended together.

Put the bread crumbs in a small bowl. Make flat nuggets from the chicken mixture and coat with bread crumbs.

Heat the oil and fry a few minutes on each side, until they look golden brown.

You can also freeze the nuggets after coating in the bread crumbs and before frying. When you take it out of the freezer, just let sit for about half an hour before frying.

One last tip - for babies you can make them the same way, just don't coat with bread crumbs, and instead of frying, just put it in the oven (180 celsius / 356 fahrenheit) for 15 min. then flip to the other side for another 15 min.

Now serve your kids, cross your fingers and hope for the best!

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