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Ingredients
for
4
Coconut Chicken Nuggets
20 min., ready in 32 min.
Time:
506
calories
Calories:
Health Score:
67 / 100
Ingredientsfor
- Ingredients
- 600 grams Chicken breasts
- salt
- freshly ground peppers
- 2 Tbsps Lime juice
- 3 Tbsps Pastry flour
- 1 handful cilantro
- 2 eggs
- 80 grams Shredded coconut
- 60 grams Panko
- vegetable oil for frying (or peanut oil)
Preparation
1.
Rinse chicken, pat dry, cut into bite-size pieces, sprinkle with lime juice and season with salt and pepper. Pour flour into a shallow bowl and coat chicken pieces in flour. Rinse cilantro, shake dry, pluck leaves from stem and cut into fine strips. Whisk eggs together in a bowl with cilantro leaves. Mix shredded coconut in another bowl with panko crumbs. Cover chicken pieces with egg mixture and then coat with coconut crumbs. Heat oil in a saucepan and fry breaded chicken pieces in portion for 3-4 minutes until golden brown. Remove from oil with a slotted spoon, drain on paper towel and serve.
Nutritional values
1 each contains
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
Calorie | 506 cal. | (24 %) | ||
Protein | 43 g | (44 %) | ||
Fat | 27 g | (23 %) | ||
Carbohydrates | 22 g | (15 %) | ||
Sugar added | 0 g | (0 %) | ||
Roughage | 4.3 g | (14 %) |