BBQ spatchcock chicken

The cook, step by step.

1. 1

   Step 1

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   The chicken butterflies. In step 1, we're supposed to remove the back bone from the chicken. Put the chicken on his belly and cut with a kitchen shear along the back bone as shown in the picture below. You can remove this whole thing.

2. 2

   Step 2

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   Chickens open and cut muscle for sternum After removing the back bone, push the chicken open a little and it's time to make a small cut where I point with my knife in the picture below.

3. 3

   Step 3

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   Clear and remove breastbone After you have made a cut and push both sides of the chicken outwards as shown in the 1st picture below, you will see that the sternum appears. You're gonna get your thumb to clear the bone. After you do this, you can remove the sternum completely.

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   Step 4

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   et voilà, flinched chicken! You will notice that once you have removed the sternum, the whole chicken is much smoother. So now you can put him with the inside down and congratulations! You just butterflyed a chicken.

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   Step 5

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   Chicken herbs After the chicken is butterfly it's time to season it. Make sure to apply the herbal rub not only on the skin but also below. If you gently lift the skin with your fingers, you will notice that you can create spaces and here also season the meat separately. Often you see with chicken that if you only the skin herb the chicken ansicht does not contain much flavor. So we tackle this problem in this way! Leave the herbs in the meat for no less than 24 hours or at least 2-3 hours.

   24h
6. 6

   Step 6

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   BBQ phase After the BBQ rub has been properly pulled into the chicken it is time to remove it from the refrigerator and allow 20 minutes at room temperature. We light the BBQ at 170 degrees BBQ temperature and prepare the BBQ for indirect preparation. It is therefore important that the chicken should not be above the coal during its preparation. The total preparation time is about 60 minutes at these 170 degrees. To make sure the chicken is cooked you can use a core thermometer and at 75 degrees Celsius the chicken is ready.

   Internal temperature: 75°C
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   Step 7

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   Enjoy Hoppa! After reaching 75 degrees internal temperature it is time to remove the chicken from the BBQ and let it rest for a 10 minutes so that the moisture can withdraw well into the meat. You'll be amazed how tender and how much moisture the chicken still contains after this preparation. Enjoy! By the way, delicious to eat in combination with American coleslaw and mac and cheese.

   Internal temperature: 75°C