Just 7 ingredients and a few minutes is all it takes to put together these spicy Baked Buffalo Chicken Nuggets. Skip the drive through and bring the heat at home.
We eat a lot of homemade chicken nuggets in our house. The kids love them. The adults love them. Everyone is happy. In our house, we love a little heat, so I decided to do a fun variation on my standard chicken nugget and do a hot sauce version. We love it! Seriously, even the kids.
These can also be frozen unbaked and popped in the oven on a busy night. Add 5-10 minutes to the baking time. Ditch the drive through and give homemade chicken nuggets a try. You might fall in love.
I am a huge fan of Frank’s Buffalo Hot Sauce. It’s seriously the best. And no, they aren’t paying me to say that and I actually don’t have a working relationship with them at all (not for lack of trying). Still, I use their hot sauce in so many of my recipes because it really is the best.
Watch the video below where we will walk you through every step of the recipe with a video demonstration.
This buffalo girl just tried these nugget and they a umm umm good!!!
Made these tonight using half the butter and no added salt. It was a big hit with the whole family
I’m lazy so I did your hot sauce mixture and Kroger brand “shake and bake “. DELICIOUS!!
Do I need to use cheese or can I make them without it ??
You can make it without it, but you might want to add a tad bit more salt to account for the lack of the salt from the cheese.
My Husband loves hot sauce on everything and Jalapenos everyday . trying this tonight , going to make mine son’s plain without the sauce .
Ended up making them all with hot sauce mixture. Yum!!! My College boy is going to love these whenever he gets home for a weekend.
Temp of the oven?
Listed in the first step of the recipe.
is adding the butter for flavor or to help the bread crumbs stick to the sauce/chicken?
thank you!
The butter adds moisture and fat since boneless skinless chicken breasts don’t have much to keep them moist.
I just made this tonight and I ended up with naked chicken nuggets. All the coating just pooled onto the baking sheet 🙁 it still was tasty, just had to roll the pieces of chicken on the sheet to pick up some of the coating. Not sure what I did wrong, I followed exactly
You may want to review the video to see how I did it because that isn’t what is supposed to happen at all. It sounds like you had way too much liquid on the nuggets and didn’t coat them correctly.
I have made this recipe half a dozen times. Most recently made it with full chicken breasts because I was too lazy to cut them and they still came out amazing. I love that this is baked instead of fries. Very delicious! Can’t wait to try your other recipes :0) my boyfriend asks for this at least once a week!
This was very Delicious! Thank you for sharing!
I Just added some Onion and Garlic Powder and Pepper!
Delicious! My whole Family LOVED!