Carving Tips for Herb Roasted Chicken Recipe

Video Transcript

"Okay, now that you've seen how we break down half the chicken with the thigh and leg bone in tact, and the breast meat off the bone, here's another idea that people will like, taking the chicken completely off the bone. Now if your chicken is completely cooked, if you cook it for the full hour, what you can do is you can almost release it with your fingers. If that's too hot, use the boning knife, and just be very careful. We're going to work it all the way down to where the wing is. And you just go little by little, like so, we're going to work that down. Now, turning it around, we're going to make a cut right by the back side, like so. What I'm trying to achieve here, I want to release the breast, the leg, and the thigh, all at the same time. And then I will remove all the bones, and what you'll have, you'll have the half chicken on the plate with no bones. So when the person is served, they can cut right into it. Okay, now I have the chicken released from the main part of the carcass. So we'll move from the plate, carefully, to the cutting board. We'll get rid of the carcass here. Now what I'm going to do, first I'm going to remove the leg bone. How you do this, just give it a twist back and forth like so. It comes right out. Now we search for the other part of the leg bone right here, here it goes. What we want to do is also get rid of the socket that's in here. It's hard cartilage, if someone is not expecting bones, you might clamp down on this and break a tooth. We don't want that. So we have everything released here. We'll carefully flip it back over. We have the wing. What you can do with the wing, we're just going to trim it up like so. Now we have the half chicken, it's totally deboned on the plate, like so. It's very nice. Looking at it you would think the bones are there, but they're not. Now if you want to see me, or some of my other shows, feel free to go to stand up and grill dot com. And for Expert Village dot com, I'm Chef Donno. We'll see you next time. "