Ingredients for Tofu Chicken Nuggets

Series Summary

Are you tired of worrying about whether your McDonald’s chicken nuggets contain TBHQ or how long it’s going to take them to clog your arteries beyond repair? Do you wish you had an easy way to get sweet, sweet nugget goodness, but without all the trans fat and cholesterol traditionally offered in most chicken nugget value meals? Well friend, you’ve come to the right place.

In this free healthy cooking video series on vegetarian recipes, learn how to make delicious tofu nuggets. No, there is no chicken in these nuggets, but once you make them, you’ll realize they deserve just as much taste acclaim as actual chicken nuggets. If you’re still hung up on the word tofu, then consider this: tofu is a relatively tasteless bean curd product that the Japanese have been cooking with for thousands of years. It’s known for its ability to absorb flavors from other ingredients in a dish. If you subscribe to the notion that everything “tastes like chicken” because chicken is fairly tasteless, then you probably will find no other vegetable product that comes as close as tofu does to the real thing. Try this recipe tonight and see if you don’t create a new favorite to add to your daily diet.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kara on behalf of Expert Village and today we're going to be making tofu chicken nuggets. When I first became vegetarian one of the things I miss the most were chicken nuggets. Believe it or not. So I was in a hurry to try and find a good recipe, a vegetarian style chicken nuggets. I came across a chicken nugget recipe that I kind of changed a few things and doctored out myself and I think it taste pretty good. The ingredients that we are going to be using for the tofu chicken nuggets are of course tofu, some vegetable oil, plain yogurt (not vanilla) 1/2 cup of corn starch, 1/2 of Italian bread crumbs, salt and pepper to taste."