Today in Ahbing’s cooking lesson. I am going to teach you how to cut a chicken. Hah! Sounds syok right? It is! Your mum has probably done this countless times at kitchen, but do you know the correct way to cut a chicken? Do you? DO YOU? I bet the answer is NOOOOOOOOOO. Hahahah! Don’t worry. I will show teach you how! Offer yourself to help out in kitchen tonight, your mum will be delighted. Tell her “ahbing sifu taught me one”
First things first, clean the chicken in running cold water. Then, OPEN THE LEGS. Hehe.
Look for thigh joint – the red circle. Use your thumb to squeeze and press it down. The joint is opposite the chicken breast side in case you don’t know -_- The bone is “snapped” out from joint. I love to do that I don’t know why haha. Probably it felt like bending your knuckles until you hear “krak krak” sound. I love to do that when I was young, it’s a bad habit so I stopped doing it.
Flip to the chicken breast side. Pull out the chicken leg until you see the thin skin stretch between leg and body. Cut it.
You will see the bone that we “snapped” earlier… the “krak krak” sound, remember? Good. Cut it through..
And you will have a perfect piece of Maryland chicken! (Chicken thigh + drumstick = Maryland). That’s how Australian call it, not sure about Malaysia. Is it a common name? I don’t know hahahahha. Maryland is probably the biggest reason why chicken are facing extinctions… cause it is so fucking delicious.
Now you have a chicken without lower parts! Now we conquer upper parts! The nen gu bao of the chicken!
Slip your knife along the softbone between chicken breast, and cut it along the rib-cage. Easy peasy. One tips to make it easier… put your thumb on the middle of the breast, push it apart from the softbone. The breast meat will seperate easily from rib cage when you cut it.
Tada! Now you have a perfect piece of chicken breast! Nen gu bao! What else is left? The chicken wings!
Just cut it off along the joints, this don’t no need teach one. Too easy. Lastly, you only left some uncut chicken bones. Don’t throw the bone away! Use the bone to cook chicken soup. Throw in a few celery sticks, carrots and onions – and you have a perfect chicken broth.
One last tip – Cut the chicken joint, not cut through the bones! Hope you enjoy this lesson.
One chicken sacrifice for this post.. so please share this post with friends and family! Facebook Twitter whatever…
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i didnt know that .. so what did u cook with the chick ?
@Chris: The chicken sacrificed in my next cooking post. Nonya Fried chicken
Maryland is my favorite part in a chicken, marinate it in salt and pepper and let it sit for 3 hours then fry it… Delicious!!
@Mr Whattaworld: if you have the chance – DEEP fry it, even better. The crunchiness of the skin…. worth dying for.
Salute u man! You are indeed a good housewife cook!
i’m gonna call you mama!
@Tallboyz: I want my wife to cook in future.
@sirei/rei: I need to charge you for calling me mama.. $50 a month. I accept paypal only..
Well ah bing, have i seen this tecnique? Jamie oliver. Nope! Gordon Ramsay. Nope! Your mum. Yeah…!!!