How can you prepare simple and appealing chicken snacks? It’s easy! All you need is a chicken fillet, a marinade, coating mix made for cateringand a tried-and-tested recipe. We have 6 of them here for you! Find out why you should enhance your menu with breaded chicken snacks and prepare dishes that will bring more customers to your restaurant.
Chicken snacks – why is it worth having them on the menu?
Breaded chicken is popular with both adults and children. It’s great for dinner or as a lunch snack. It’s easy to serve on the go and convenient to eat as finger food. An excellent base for preparing a wide variety of dishes. There are numerous advantages to having golden, breaded chicken pieces on your menu. This ranges from the simplicity of preparation to the fact that it can be conveniently packed for delivery. Chicken dishes have always been popular – with restaurant owners and customers alike. Use this to your advantage and introduce breaded chicken snacks to your menu.
The perfect breaded chicken piece
Preparing the chicken strips so that they are juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside is very easy. All you need is the right coating. What should be taken into account when making your choice? Above all, choose a ready-made solution such as coating for catering. This ensures your breaded chicken is perfectly crispy, delightfully flaky, and golden. The coating will stick to the meat, making it possible to conveniently cut the chicken strips into smaller pieces. Holly Powder’s ready-made chicken coating mix meets these criteria and will exceed your expectations.
6 chicken snack ideas
Coated chicken pieces go well with a wide range of toppings, so an extremely long (and extremely appetising) list of snacks can be made from them. And these are the kind of dishes you can successfully include in a lunch menu as well as in a takeaway offer.
- Bucket of chicken nuggets
- Wrap with chicken strips
- Chicken burger
- Skewers
- Chicken cheesadilla
- Chicken pieces with nachos
The simplest chicken snack: a bucket of chicken nuggets
A classic that always sells well. Chicken pieces in a golden, crispy coating have been popular for years. Promoted by the fast food chains, they have gained fans around the world and have become the most ordered takeaway chicken snack. A bucket filled to the brim with delicious chicken nuggets is the perfect dish to share with friends. This is why a bucket of chicken nuggets is often ordered for takeaway. It can be enhanced with French fries, sauces and drinks.
A snack for picky eaters: chicken wrap
For those who like eating chicken with fresh vegetables, have a tortilla and chicken snacks on your menu. Pieces of chicken together with lettuce, tomato, red onion, red pepper wrapped in a tortilla wrap are a great option for anyone who likes to eat tasty and healthy. Top the wrap with your favourite toppings, mayonnaise, ketchup or other sauce and toppings such as yellow cheese, crispy fried onion or bacon.
Delicious starters: chicken skewers
Chicken cut into smaller pieces and served as a skewer is a snack that can be served as a starter. It is perfect for banquets and conferences, as the stick ensures that the guests don’t get their hands dirty. The skewers with chicken pieces are also a great snack for children. Who could resist such golden pieces of chicken?
Chicken snack for lunch and dinner: Chicken burger
Burgers are a type of snack that is eaten both on site and for takeaway, for lunch as well as dinner. That’s why there have to be a burger on your restaurant’s menu. Coated chicken goes very well with any type of bread. This allows you to prepare several variations of the chicken burger. The recipe for a classic chicken burger is very simple. You can prepare it in a few moments. All you need are: a sesame seed bun, two fried chicken strips, lettuce mix, a few slices of green cucumber and tomato, ketchup and mayonnaise. You can change the recipe as much as you like by adding other vegetables, cheeses and sauces.
Chicken fillet snacks a la pizza – quesadilla
You don’t have a pizza oven? Serve a quesadilla. This snack made from tortillas and lots of melted yellow cheese is a great alternative to traditional pizza. Enhanced with breaded chicken and toppings such as grilled mushrooms, bacon and BBQ sauce, it will be a nutritious dish and a delicious snack that can be shared with others – just like pizza.
Chicken snacks served hot: Chicken nachos
It’s a truly crunchy dish! Especially if you toast the nachos in the oven or fry them in a deep fryer. Coated chicken pieces and fried nachos can be topped with grated cheddar or poured with a fragrant sauce. You can easily include this snack as a snack served with beer or other drinks.
Chicken snacks for parties… and beyond
Chicken breast snacks are great as a snack as well as a full meal, they will satisfy those who just want to have a “bite” and are suitable as finger food to be ordered for takeaway for a party or a house party. Chicken meat is popular with adults and children alike, is easy to pack for delivery and can also be easily served cold. It will work well as a main course and as a quick snack eaten on the run. Ensure chicken snacks are on your menu and make money from serving them.
