Chicken Nuggets with Fruits & Vegetables {Sneaky Chef Style}

Do your kids want nothing but pizza and chicken nuggets? Oh wait, throw in the occasional hot dog, right? Getting fruits and vegetables into my kids is a full-time job. I was a picky kid growing up so I do have compassion for them, but that doesn’t mean they get to choose what they eat. I am trying desperately to be role model (it has been through much retraining of my taste buds) to them. I would love any advice you have about getting picky kids to eat fruits and vegetables. I am all ears! My super awesome cousin did it right with her son and trained him at a very young age to like everything. I am super jealous but I do get to glean some of her recipes at times that I test on my kiddos. These chicken nuggets with fruits and veggies worked! The best part is they a super healthy and Tim and I eat them too. This week I made them with baked sweet potato fries and roasted broccoli.

Now you can purchase ground chicken but I have the Kitchen Aid fruit and vegetable strainer with meat grinder attachment that fits on my Kitchen Aid Mixer. It is pricey at $75 on Amazon but I used it to can applesauce every year as well as make purees and homemade fruit roll ups. So I took boneless skinless chicken breasts and ground it up to make ground chicken. Here is a picture of what it looks like.

Recipe: Make 2 dozen nuggets – 20 calories each

1 cup ground chicken

6 baby carrots or one peeled medium carrot

1/2 small onion

1 medium apple (I keep the skins on)

1/2 tsp of minced garlic

egg yolk (beaten)

pinch of thyme

pinch of pepper

1/4 tsp salt (optional)

1/4 cup of whole wheat seasoned bread crumbs (click here to make them yourself – TIP: just use whole wheat bread and cook at 300 degrees for 30 minutes flipping halfway then add the spices in the recipe I just linked too. Store in freezer. )

1. In a food processor add carrots, onion, apple, and garlic and pulse until finely chopped.