Cilantro Chicken Nuggets

This is the second type of chicken nuggets I made today.  This recipe comes from Paleo OMG blog.  She's also a funny writer with a dry sense of humor.  Here's her recipe:  Cilantro Chicken Nuggets.  My modifications to her recipe of what I actually made are as follows.

Okay, this is now 8-May-12 and I've made these again with more modifications.  The just coconut flour from PaleoOMG is alright, but I prefer the outer coating a bit tastier than just coconut flour.  I reduced the very heavy coconut flour some and mixed it with almond meal, added salt & pepper, as well as garlic powder to this.  This made these spectacular!  I sorta got this idea off of the coconut chicken nuggets where you put salt & pepper in the outer coating rather than the nugget itself.  It gives it more flavor and I like this a  lot.  My kids loved this revision EVEN Better and these were the nuggets that went the quickest.

Makes about 30 Nuggets.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 lbs ground chicken
• 1 jumbo egg (this really was too much; use 1 large egg)
• 1 large bundle cilantro, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup almond meal
• 1/2 brown onion, finely chopped
• 2 Tbspns sesame oil
• 2 Tbspn fresh ginger, finely chopped (adding extra ginger)
• sea salt & ground pepper, to taste
• 2/3 cup coconut flour (reducing this)
• 2/3 cup almond meal (adding this)
• sea salt & ground pepper
• 1.5 Tbspns garlic powder
• 1/4 cup extra virgin coconut oil

Directions:

• Heat a skillet on medium high heat with coconut oil.
• Place first 8 ingredients in a stainless steel or glass bowl.  

• Place coconut flour in a shallow, wide bowl (or dish).  Okay, I've modified this recipe now to make it even tastier & better.  If you want, you can just use coconut flour, but I like coconut flour mixed with almond meal, add some salt & pepper, as well as a some garlic powder.  Mix this all by hand.

• Mix first 8 ingredients together by hand well.  If it seems to "wet", then add a little more almond meal.

• Roll meat mixture into 1 tablespoon balls, then lightly dust with dry mixture (coconut flour, almond meal, salt & pepper, garlic powder).
• Place balls in skillet and cook for about 3-4 min.  Flip over and sort smash down some, so it looks like a nugget.

• Cook for another 3-4 minutes.
• Place on serving platter.  
• Serve with Dipping Sauce or Asian Dipping Sauce.