Braised chicken nuggets and cranberry glaze with roasted broccoli
Breaded chicken nuggets glazed with tart cranberries become a proper weeknight dinner, not a kid's meal.
- Per serving
- $1.70
- Serves
- 4
- Time
- 25 min
- Whole dinner
- $6.80
Ingredients
2 lbs Tyson All Natural White Meat Chicken Nuggets
On sale at BJ's: Tyson All Natural White Meat Chicken Nuggets, 5 lbs.
$5.99$9.991 cup Ocean Spray Cranberries
On sale at BJ's: Ocean Spray Cranberries, 2 lbs.
$3.991/4 cup Orange juice
about $2.502 tbsp Brown sugar
pantry1/4 tsp Cinnamon
pantry2 tbsp Oil
pantry1 lb Broccoli florets
about $1.75to taste Salt
pantryto taste Black pepper
pantry1 cup cooked Rice
about $0.50
Prices are from BJ's the week of October 4, 2026. Sale prices change every week and differ by store.
Steps
- Bake the chicken nuggets at 400 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes until golden and heated through.
- Toss broccoli with oil, salt and pepper, spread on a baking sheet and roast alongside the nuggets until edges brown, about 15 minutes.
- While everything roasts, combine cranberries, orange juice, brown sugar and cinnamon in a saucepan, bring to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes until the berries soften and a glaze forms.
- Cook rice according to package directions.
- Spoon the cranberry glaze over the hot nuggets and serve with the broccoli and rice.
Why it’s cheap
2 of the 10 ingredients were on sale at BJ's the week of October 4, 2026, led by tyson all natural white meat chicken nuggets at $5.99 instead of $9.99.
The sale items rang up $4.00 under their regular prices.
Penny Meals prices a dinner by the share of each package you actually cook, adds an estimated shelf price for anything that wasn’t on sale, and counts pantry staples like oil and salt as free. That came to $1.70 a serving, or $6.80 for 4 servings.
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