You won’t believe how easy it's to make healthy keto air fry chicken nuggets right at your own home! Made with real ground chicken and seasoned to perfection, you won’t be missing those greasy fast food chicken nuggets ever again!
Course Appetizer, Lunch, Side Dish
Cuisine American, Worldwide
Keyword keto chicken nuggets, keto chicken nuggets air fryer
Prep Time 3minutes
Cook Time 7minutes
Total Time 10minutes
Servings 20pieces
Calories 82kcal
Ingredients
Chicken Nuggets
1lbGround Chickenbreast or thigh
1/2ozUnflavored Pork Rinds~1 tbsp if using Pork Panko
1Stalk Green Onion
1/2tspSalt
1/8tspBlack Pepper
1/2tspGarlic Powder
1/2Egg
1 1/2tbspHalf & Half
Crust
3ozUnflavored Pork Rinds~6 tbsp if using Pork Panko
Optional Spicy Mayo Dipping Sauce
4tbspKewpie Mayoyou can sub with American mayo
1/2tspSriracha
Instructions
Gather all the ingredients.
Chop green onion and set aside.
Pour Unflavored Pork Rinds into a food processor and pulse until ground into very fine. You can also use your hands to crush the pork rinds if you don’t have a food processor, but we strongly recommend using a food processor. Place 1 tbsp of crushing pork rinds into the mixing bowl and set the remaining aside.
In the same mixing bowl, add ground chicken, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, chopped green onions, beaten egg and half & half. Combine until mixed well.
Take ~1.5 tbsp of the chicken mixture, place it in the crushed pork rinds from step 3) and then roll it around to coat all sides. Note - it may help to rub some oil on your hands to avoid the mixture from sticking.
Using your hands, gently form nuggets from the coated chicken nuggets and transfer them to the air fryer tray. Repeat until all the chicken mixture is used. Air fryer at 390F for 7-9 minutes or until internal temp reaches 165F. Note - if you like your chicken nuggets crispy, re-fry them by putting it back in the air fryer for 2-4 minutes after they have cooled down.
Optional mayo sauce - combine Kewpie Mayo with Sriracha into a mixing bowl and mix well.
Once chicken nuggets are air fried, serve with a dipping sauce of choice. Enjoy!