How To: Butterfly a chicken

How to Butterfly a chicken

To butterfly a whole chicken means to remove the chickens' backbone so you can open the chicken like a book, or a butterfly, and lay it flat. This easy technique, requiring only a set of poultry shears and about a minute of time, gives you a chicken that cooks faster and more evenly than a whole chicken. In this quick video tip, Jennifer Armentrout shows you how it's done.