Not So Chicken Nuggets
Are these the same thing you'll find at a fast food joint? No way. Are they better for you, though? Without a doubt. Plus, they're a ton of fun to make.
Ingredients
(use organic ingredients where possible)
Nugget
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 3 tbsp chia seeds soaked 10 mins
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tbsp miso
- 1 tsp cayenne
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked 1 hour
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1/2 onion
- 3 ears corn
- 1 cup nutritional yeast
- 2 cups ground sunflower seeds
- 2 cups ground sesame seeds
Coating
- 1 cup ground flaxseed
- 1 tsp chili pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
BBQ Sauce
- 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked one hour
- 1 tbsp nama shoyu
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1/2 onion
- 2 medium-sized tomatoes
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp cayenne
UTENSIL
- Blender
Method
- Add the maple syrup and apple cider vinegar to the blender and pulse.
- Next, add the garlic, chili powder, miso, cayenne, cumin, salt, and chia seeds. Blend again.
- Add onion, tomato, sun-dried tomatoes, and corn. If you start having problems blending, just use a spatula to move the
- Push the mixture down and make sure everything is getting blended.
- Pour this mixture into a bowl and clean out your blender.
- Grind sunflower and sesame seeds in a high-speed blender or coffee grinder.
- Add your ground seeds and nutritional yeast in with the mixture already in your bowl, and mix everything together with a spatula.
- In a small bowl, assemble your breading mixture by just tossing together your ground flax, chili pepper, and salt.
- To make our patties, use a large soup spoon to scoop it up, and form into a patty shape, coat each patty with your breading mixture, then lay it on your dehydrator sheet, or on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper.
- Dehydrate overnight, or bake in an oven for about an hour at 200 degrees F, flip them, and then bake for one more hour.
- Finally, let's make our BBQ sauce. First, add all the liquids - nama shoyu, apple cider vinegar, maple syrup, olive oil, into the blender, as well as your spices - paprika, cayenne, and salt. Blend.
- Now add in your tomatoes, onion, and sun-dried tomatoes. Blend again.
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