How To Butcher A Chicken

Author: Leticia Celentano Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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Chicken is one of the most favorite products of both novice housewives and experienced chefs. At the same time, not everyone cuts the chicken correctly before cooking.

How to cut chicken into fillets and portions

Chicken is one of the most favorite products of both novice housewives and experienced chefs. At the same time, not everyone cuts the chicken correctly before cooking.

To cook delicious dishes from chicken, you need to cut it into small convenient pieces. Moreover, different pieces of chicken should be cooked differently, as some pieces are fatter, others are more dietary, some are thicker and take longer to cook, while other parts cook faster.

Whoever knows how to cut a chicken saves on the purchase of meat, since separately thighs, wings, fillets are more expensive than chicken. And at the same time, when cutting a chicken, there is still a soup meat and bone set from which you can make an excellent soup.

Usually the chicken is cut into thighs, drumsticks, wings, fillets. To work, you will need a sharp knife, scissors and a cutting board. Take our advice and in a few minutes you will easily butcher the chicken.

Recipes with whole chicken

Ingredients:

whole chicken

We will need:

Cutting board
Knife
Scissors

How to cut a chicken step by step instructions with a photo

Step 1

For work, we need a chicken, a knife, culinary scissors. Wash and pat dry the chicken before use.

Step 2

We start cutting with the legs. Pull the leg to the side and cut the skin. With a little effort, turn the leg up a little so that the joints are separated and the thigh bone comes out of the joint.

Step 3

Cut off the leg from the body along the joint. Do the same with the second leg.

Step 4

Now you need to separate the lower leg from the thigh. To do this, you need to find the joint and cut along it. The line connecting the lower leg and joint will tell you in which direction to separate them.

Step 5

We will get 2 thighs and 2 legs.

Step 6

With your hands, feel for where the connecting joint is at the wings, pull the wing to the side and cut it off along the joint.

Step 7

At the wings, cut off the first phalanx at the joint.

Step 8

Using scissors, cut off the breast from the body along the cartilages of the ribs.

Step 9

Get chicken breast.

Step 10

Cut off the chicken fillet with a knife.

Step 11

As a result, we get 2 fillets, 2 wings, 2 thighs, 2 drumsticks and a chicken skeleton (frame).

How To Butcher A Chicken

CHAPTERS (Table Of Contents)

How to cut chicken into fillets and portions

How to cut a chicken step by step instructions with a photo

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