Recipe: Yummy Butterfly chicken

Butterfly chicken. Watch and learn how to butterfly, or spatchcock, a chicken. Butterflying a chicken is a great technique for grilling or oven-roasting as it will cook faster and more evenly. If you want to butterfly a chicken, place the chicken on your cutting board with the breast-side down and the backbone facing up.

Which kind of chicken would you like in the recipe? Chicken Wings Chicken Breasts Chicken Legs Chicken Thighs Chicken Cutlets Any Type of Chicken. Here we've used chicken, but for larger cuts, such as lamb or pork, make similar incisions along the joint to open it up into one flat piece. You can cook Butterfly chicken using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Butterfly chicken

1. You need 1/2 kg of chicken (breast fillets).
2. You need 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
3. You need 1 tbsp of soya sauce.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of pepper powder.
5. Prepare 1 tbsp of chilli powder.
6. Prepare 1 tbsp of ginger, garlic paste.
7. You need 3 tbsp of cornflour.
8. You need 2 tbsp of refined flour /maida.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of water.
10. It's 2 of large potatoes(peeled and thinly sliced,soaked in water).
11. It's To taste of Salt.
12. You need Pinch of orange red food colour.
13. Prepare For deep frying of Oil.

Once you've mastered the technique, try your butterflied breast in our lemon chicken & couscous recipe, pictured above, or chicken tikka burgers. Discover how to butterfly a chicken so it cooks more evenly and gets super-crispy skin on the grill or under a brick in a cast-iron skillet. We've got step-by-step photos to make it even easier. Want to cook whole chicken quicker and more evenly?

Butterfly chicken instructions

1. Cut chicken fillets in cubes(1inch) then wash and pat dry.
2. In a bowl add chicken, lemon juice, soy sauce, ginger garlic paste,pepper powder, red chilli powder,salt,orange red colour mix well.
3. Add 2 tbsp cornflour and refined flour to this chicken and marinate for 1hour.
4. In a bowl add 1 tbsp cornflour,pinch salt and water mix well.
5. Now dip potato slice into cornflour +water mix, followed by marinated chicken cube piece in the centre of each potato slice and apply toothpick.
6. In a wok heat oil and fry chicken on medium heat until chicken is well cooked (5-6mins).
7. Butterfly chicken is ready.
8. Note - soak toothpicks in water for 1/2 hour Then use it.

Remove the backbone with a knife or kitchen scissors to flatten the chicken. The breast meat doesn't dry out, the dark meat is tender and juicy, and there's lots of crispy golden skin to enjoy. Here, it's simply roasted with lemon and rosemary, but butterflied chicken is especially good on the. Spatchcocking, or butterflying, is the solution: By flattening out the chicken, you expose its legs to higher heat, helping them cook a little faster than the breasts—which is exactly what you want for juicy meat. Spatchcocked (Butterflied) Roast Chicken With Quick Jus Making a simple but perfect roast chicken is a technique that should be in every home cook's arsenal.

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