Easy Recipe: Tasty Spatchcock Chicken
Spatchcock Chicken. Push down on each side of breast with your hands until you hear it crack. Grabbing hold of both sides of the chicken, open it like a book.
Open the chicken like a book to reveal the ribs and sternum. This technique results in the most evenly cooked, melt-in-your-mouth chicken that is super tender and juicy!. To spatchcock a chicken, remove the backbone of the chicken and spread it open like a book.
SPATCHCOCKING A CHICKEN Ensure the meat is cooked all the way through the chicken - you can test by poking in a skewer in the thickest part to see if the juices run clear.
Flatten chicken and transfer to one short end of the prepared baking sheet.
To spatchcock a chicken basically means to butterfly the chicken and remove the backbone. It does, however, make for a very unattractive meal. Not only that, but in about an hour you'll have a very impressive dinner, fool proof, insanely delicious for your entire family or friends.