GFCF Nuggets, please help Okay, so another post is digging up an old question I had that I still haven't mastered.  So I figure I'd just start a new thread. I've been trying to master a GFCF nugget that CLOSELY resembles Tyson Dinosaur chix nuggets, or maybe even McDonalds.  Someone gave me a recommendation that I have tried very similar recipes for.  These are the issues I'm having that maybe someone could give me tips on before I try another "testing" round.  The last time I went for 3 hours and seriously couldn't even look at a chix nugget for a week!  LOL 1) do you add sugar?  it just seems I can quite get them as sweet as the tysons ones.  I added, what I thought, was a lot of sugar but can't get them anywhere near that sweet taste of tysons. 2) Another issue i'm having is the color.  The Tyson nuggets almost have a orange color to them, but when I fry mine they come out a distinct different color, like a dirt brown color.  3) has anyone tried cutting them into dinosaur shapes?  I tried this as well with little success.  I can't figure out, do I shape the raw ground chix into shapes and then dip them, or visa versa?  4) Finally, with the ground chix I bought it seems like the chix part gets really really dark.  How do I keep the center looking like 'white' chix, like tyson's or mcdonalds?  Do they sell ground chix that's just white meat?  I ask our deli and they said no.  Ground chix is ground chix.  That just seems crazy to me.  Not only are they dark, but I can distinctly taste dark meat in it. These are issues my son is having issues with and STILL wont take a bite of anything I've made.  I have to figure out how to get him to TOUCH and HOLD them before I can even attempt to get him to take a bite.  So look and texture are so important.  Any advice is helpful.  Chix nuggets are my barrier to going GF (already casein free).  But I just can't seem to get there.... Thanks so much!! Shanda I don't have any great advice but what I do(my DS still won't eat them but I do it anyhow)is grind up chicken breasts myself at home in my food processor. I have also found that if you use cookie cutters shaped like dinosaurs that can help to create the shape and you can do this either before or after you cook them whichever is easiest. Oh and on a side note I am so looking for any advice you all have seeing as my DS lives off of the Dino nuggets by Tyson. I was afraid you were going to say that about the food processor....I can't imagine watching raw chicken being blend up in a food processor.  ...still thinking about it.  I don't even like to touch raw chicken.  Guess it'll be a job for the DH.  Ha!  I don't have any good advice either, but I hear you about the food processor.  We bake with beans a lot, and I can't quite handle watching them mush up in the processor.  I'll soak 'em, boil 'em, and cook 'em after they're all ground up, but DH has to do the actual pulverizing.If you have a Kitchen Aid mixer, they sell a meat grinder attachment. Or maybe you can find a counter top grinder. Did you ask at your Deli or did you ask someone that works in the back of the meat department, because I have heard that the meat dept people will slice or grind meat for you. Like if you buy a packaged roast, they will make it into steaks for you, so I don't see why they wouldn't grind a package of chicken breasts. Another option is to find a Butcher and buy from them. For the orange color, I would try coloring the breading with food coloring. I second the cookie cutters.
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