Despite my vaunted expertise regarding haute cuisine, my experience with chicken nuggets is limited. Yesterday I was given a plastic container filled with them and they became the impromptu entrée for my dinner. There was a surplus, which I stored in the refrigerator until time for lunch today, when I warmed them in the microwave. I guessed two minutes on high would be sufficient, but some subliminal sixth sense warned me to take them out 27 seconds before the buzzer would have sounded. At one minute and 33 seconds of microwave exposure the nuggets were too hot to eat.
     After they had cooled a bit I discovered that the microwave had worked its magic by making the nuggets tough as golf balls, but not half so tasty. If there is a cold nugget in my future I shall consume it as it is, with no thought of warming.
Seán

Ah, but chickens don't have nuggets!

Henry,
     Have you inspected the bottom of a chicken? Is it possible those nuggets were counterfeit?
Seán

Counterfeit? If chickens don't have nuggets, how can there be counterfeit nuggets out there? There'd be nothing for them to be counterfeits of!

Henry

Henry,
     You are the one who says chickens are unnuggeted, although your evidence is absent. My instinct, coupled with the fact that I have just immortalized a batch of them by microwaving, leads me to doubt your claim.
     Besides that, I am nearly certain that, without some help from nuggets, there would be no baby chicks for Easter.
Seán

Well, I'm no egg spurt on the subject; it's just what I've heard about chickens. And since where I heard it was a commercial for some eating place that competes with somebody who sells servings of nuggets, it's gotta be accurate, right? Oh. Oops.

Henry

Henry,
     My apologies. If you learned it from a commercial, it has to be the hard-boiled truth. They would never scramble the evidence. No wonder you are dubious.
Seán

Yeah, I dunno how I would a poached an answer to that; such an attempt could leave me brain fried.

Sean,

There are many recipes where one takes chunks of chicken about 1/2" or so and sauté them in oil such as olive oil. Two examples follow: Orange chicken (after you sauté them pour a half cup of orange marmalade over them.) Cashews chicken where you add some soy sauce and cashew nuts. (Whole hot red peppers can be added to either.) There are many recipes for either on the Internet.

Point is not to over sauté the chicken in the oil or it will become hard and not tasty.

Regards,

eggcelent reply glenn

Yes...but be very careful re-heating any meat in the micro. It only needs to warm and usually needs a sauce to keep from drying out.

I don't heat any meat in micro unless it's in a liquid. It comes out too dry and chewey. I have a Lemon Tarragon Chicken with Asparagus dish I make in micro, but it's like a soup. It comes out great. One dish so easy and so tasty.