Deboning A Chicken

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Deboning A Chicken

Recipe By : La Technique by Jacques Pepin
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Chicken

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1. Using a 3 to 3 1/4 pound roasting chicken, remove the wings at the second
joint and reserve. Lift up the skin of the neck to expose the flesh and,
using the point of a small knife, follow the contour of the wishbone to get it
loose.

2. Pull the wishbone out.

3. Place the chicken on its breast, and cut down the backbone to expose the
meat.

4. Following the carcass with your knife, begin cutting the meat from the
bone. Cut the joint at the shoulder. Cut on top and around the breastbone
and on the other side. This is not really complicated; you simply separate
the meat from the bone as you go. Do not worry about the leg, shoulder, and
wing bones.

5. Remove the carcass in one piece.

6. Cut around the bone of the thigh to free it of meat. Holding the tip in
one hand, scrape with your knife, "pushing" the meat from the bone. Separate
the thighbone at the joint between the thigh and drumstick. The drumstick
bone is left in.

7. With a large knife, cut the tip of the drumstick and...

8. "push" the flesh back to expose the bone.

9. Cut the tip of the wing bones.

10. You will notice that there are 2 fillets loose on the breast. Pull them
off and position them lower than the breast, where there is no meat on the
skin. Most of the surface should be lined with meat.



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