It's so easy to make crispy chicken strips at home (Image: Getty) There are some foods that, until recently, I'd never even thought about making at home. They seemed, for some reason, like these magical foods that were only possible with special ingredients or high-tech equipment that most people didn't just have lying around in their kitchens . Chicken goujons (or strips, or nuggets - whatever you want to call them) fell into this category.
I just thought there must be some sort of complicated cooking process involved to get that crispiness and that rich golden colour that you'd get in a chicken restaurant (or even in a bag of frozen ones from the supermarket ). Then I saw, completely by chance, a Tesco recipe that caught my eye. Not only did I realise that it would be so simple to make, but it also contained a simple household ingredient I would never in a million years have associated with chicken nuggets but actually helps make them super crispy.
That ingredient is cornflakes. Yes, your everyday cornflakes that you can get in a box of 500g for just 75p at Asda . If you don't want to use cornflakes, breadcrumbs also do a decent job — you can either buy them ready-made or blitz your own stale bread in a food processor.
If you want to make it a healthier version and cut down on ultra-processed food ( like I have done for the last six months — you can read about it here ) use stale sourdough bread from a local bakery. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement.
