Baked Greek Yogurt Ranch Chicken Nuggets

Chicken nuggets are a huge hit with most kids. I want to share with you my Baked Greek Yogurt Ranch Chicken Nuggets recipe so that you have a kid-friendly dinner that parents will enjoy too. I also love to make food fun for kids. It makes them more adventurous and willing to try new things. Therefore, I did a fun, spring-inspired presentation to make the vegetables more appealing to try. The vegetable flower garden for kids is a great way to inspire healthy eating.

Helping Kids Learn to Eat New Things

Food has been challenging for one of my daughters. New things freak her out. We have tried a variety of tactics with her, and I see glimmers of hope that we might be breaking ground. I wanted to share some of food “tricks” that might help your picky eater try new things. I have incorporated all of these “tricks” into this one Baked Greek Yogurt Ranch Chicken Nuggets meal.

1. Use Toothpicks – My son didn’t like trying new things until I gave him the option of tasting with a toothpick. This was completely inspiring to him, so I incorporated that idea into this post.
2. Make Food Fun – We like to have fun with food in our house. We have done it for Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and Thanksgiving, but we have also done a fun food day and a funny food faces day that you can check out. I love making snacking fun. It keeps us all entertained. The kid-friendly vegetable flowers I made bring color and whimsy into this meal.
3. Give Dips – Kids love to dip. I have found that giving fun dips inspires them to try things. Hidden Valley Ranch has come out with a new Greek Yogurt Salad Dressing, which is not only part of the chicken nugget recipe featured here today, but I also made it a dip for my fun vegetable flower creations as well as the chicken nuggets. When prepared according to package directions, Hidden Valley Ranch Greek yogurt salad dressing has higher protein content, less fat and fewer calories than their traditional ranch.

Ingredients Needed to Make Baked Greek Yogurt Ranch Chicken Nuggets

• 3 Chicken Breasts
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 1 Package of Hidden Valley Ranch Greek Yogurt Salad Dressing Mix
• 3 Tbsp 2% milk
• 1 1/3 cups Nonfat Plain Greek Yogurt
• 1 cup Breadcrumbs
• 1 cup Panko
• 1 tsp basil
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp onion powder

How to Make Baked Greek Yogurt Ranch Chicken Nuggets

* Yields 30 chicken nuggets. Feeds 5.

1. Preheat Oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Cut chicken into 1 1/2 inch sized pieces.
3. In a large Ziplock bag, add flour, salt and pepper.
4. In a small bowl, combine Hidden Valley Ranch Greek Yogurt Salad Dressing Mix, milk, and Greek yogurt. In another bowl, reserve half of the salad dressing mixture for dipping.
5. In a medium bowl, combine breadcrumbs, panko, basil, garlic powder and onion powder.
6. Place the chicken in the flour-filled ziplock bag and toss to coat.
7. Dip individual pieces into the yogurt mixture. You want a thin layer of yogurt, so remove excess with hands.
8.  Coat chicken in the breadcrumb mixture. Set completely coated pieces of chicken on a lightly greased cookie sheet or jelly roll pan.
9. Continue coating chicken until all chicken is prepared.
10. Bake in a single layer for 20 minutes, turning once after 10 minutes of baking.

Vegetable Flowers as a Side

These fun and colorful vegetable flowers are aimed to encourage kids to eat their veggies. Having the Greek yogurt ranch dip helps too. I used yellow peppers, cherry tomatoes and carrots as the flowers with cucumber petals. Red tomatoes can be scalloped at the top with a paring knife. The yellow peppers were sliced on the side and then hand cut into the shape of a tulip. For the carrots, cut into slices and then cut out triangular notches with your knife. For the cucumber leaves, slice the cucumber and then cut in half. Next, cut a triangle out of the center. All the flowers can be constructed using a toothpick and the vegetables you have cut to shape.

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Baked Greek Yogurt Ranch Chicken Nuggets

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Ingredients

  

• 3 Chicken Breasts
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 1 Package of Hidden Valley Ranch Greek Yogurt Salad Dressing Mix
• 3 Tbsp 2% milk
• 1 1/3 cups Nonfat Plain Greek Yogurt
• 1 cup Breadcrumbs
• 1 cup Panko
• 1 tsp basil
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp onion powder

Instructions

 

• Preheat Oven to 400 degrees F.
• Cut chicken into 1 1/2 inch sized pieces.
• In a large Ziplock bag, add flour, salt and pepper.
• In a small bowl, combine Hidden Valley Ranch Greek Yogurt Salad Dressing Mix, milk, and Greek yogurt. In another bowl, reserve half of the salad dressing mixture for dipping.
• In a medium bowl, combine breadcrumbs, panko, basil, garlic powder and onion powder.
• Place the chicken in the flour-filled ziplock bag and toss to coat.
• Dip individual pieces into the yogurt mixture. You want a thin layer of yogurt, so remove excess with hands.
• Coat chicken in the breadcrumb mixture. Set completely coated pieces of chicken on a lightly greased cookie sheet or jelly roll pan.
• Continue coating chicken until all chicken is prepared.
• Bake in a single layer for 20 minutes, turning once after 10 minutes of baking.