No-Buffalo Nuggets

These are so easy to make and really good! I love the taste of spicy buffalo sauce so when I saw these I had to try them! My hubby wanted a “football watching snack” too so the timing was perfect. Our toddler loved these too! I didn’t add any Frank’s Hot Sauce to hers, she’s not to that level of spice yet! Serve these with a side of Vegan Ranch Dressing.

No-Buffalo Nuggets

I found the nugget recipe on Babble.

3 Ingredient Vegan Buffalo Nuggets
vegan, makes 15 bites/nuggets

1 1/4 cups of GimmeLean Vegan Sausage (comes in a tube – fridge section of grocery store)
1/2 cup Panko bread crumbs
2 Tbsp hot sauce — I like Frank’s Hot Sauce
for saute: 2 Tbsp safflower oil

swap spicy for sweet: substitute sweet BBQ sauce or ketchup for the hot sauce if you don’t want the bites too hot!

Directions:

1. Gather your ingredients. Heat the safflower oil in a sauté pan over med-high heat.
2. Tear your sausage into tiny nuggets – they don’t have to be evenly shaped (unless you’d like to roll them into nice balls or pound into nugget shapes).
3. When the oil is hot, quickly roll each sausage nugget in the Panko and place in the sizzling hot oil. Continue doing this until the pan is filled. Allow each nugget to sauté for about 2 minutes on each side. You want the Panko crumb to crisp and brown and saturate with the oil so that they are no longer a white color — but now a caramel brown.
4. When your nuggets are evenly cooked, and the oil mostly absorbed/cooked off. Turn the heat off and add in your hot sauce in a casual ‘splashy’ way. You want a nice splash of sauce to accent ( but not overly saturate) each of the bites. Toss the nuggets in the still hot pan with the sauce as they sizzle and cook.
5. Serve hot.