Are you cooking chicken at home for the surprise party you organized for your beloved and are unfortunately stuck right at the first step of deboning the chicken? Do not worry as we provide you the step by step instruction as to how to bone a chicken at home. Most people find it very difficult to debone a chicken, but the steps given below will make the tidier task easy for you, allowing you to complete it at the snap of your fingers. So, now you can be sure to win all the accolades for that sumptuous chicken recipe you are about to prepare.
Items required
- Sharpening Steels
- Boning Knives
- Cutting Boards
- Whole Chicken
Steps
- First, cut off wings at the first joint, keeping the drumette, attached.
- Make a cut in the skin between leg and body.
- Now, hold the chicken with the body in one hand and the leg and thigh in the other.
- Pull the leg toward you so the thigh bone pops completely out of its socket.
- Holding the chicken by the leg, cut through the flesh between the thigh bone and the body socket, separating the drumstick and thigh.
- Repeat steps 2 through 5 with the other leg.
- After removing the legs, lay the chicken on its back such that the breasts are facing you.
- Locate the breastbone at the top that separates the two breasts.
- Make a long incision on both sides of the breastbone.
- Beneath the breastbone, on both sides, is the rib cage and wishbone. Use the tip of the knife to follow the rib cage and carefully cut away the breasts from the ribs.
- After removing both the breasts, turn the chicken frame over so the back is exposed.
- Cut out the little nugget of tender meat, called the oyster, located behind the hollow of the hip socket in the back.
- To cut out the leg and thigh bones, lay each leg on the cutting board so the meatier part faces down.
- Use the knife to cut down to the bone and then make a deep split that follows the bone for its entire length. Use the tip of the knife to carefully cut the flesh away from the bone.
- Save all bones, including wing tips, for stock.
