In the Kitchen

April 28, 2009, 9:44 pm

Chicken Breast 101

Tuesday was full of chicken questions. Deeishealthy commented on chicken tenders and how she didn't know they were an actual piece of the chicken. She thought they were just a deep fried creation of fast food restaurants.

Then Munkstir had us all rolling on the floor in laughter with her chicken boobie quandary. "Is half a chicken boob, half of a half?"

Well get out your pencils, you're gonna want to take notes -there will be a test. M.O.M has the 411 on the humble chicken breast -with pictures! (and a visual tutorial on chicken tenders to boot).

Lesson 1: behold a whole chicken breast. Yes, a whole chicken breast is two pieces -both sides of the chest area.

Lesson 2: half of a chicken breast.

Lesson 3A: backside showing the tender in place

Lesson 3B: showing exactly where the tender is

Lesson 3C: the tender removed

Lesson 4A: the chicken tender. Note the small white tendon sticking out, you'll want to remove that, it's tough.

So here's where it get's tricky. The food industry (restaurants, packaged foods, the market) has decided to call half a chicken breast, A CHICKEN BREAST; therefore confusing us all, because in the culinary world A CHICKEN BREAST is the whole chicken breast. So the short of it is this, go by weight.

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