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Summary: Kitchen Tips: How to Butterfly Chicken Breast. Basic cooking techniques and tips for Butterflying Chicken Breast
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To butterfly your chicken breast, first start of with the chicken breast and lie it on your cutting board. Next, take your chef's knife and we're going to start down the center of the chicken breast. Put your hand on top of the chicken breast to hold it still and you're going to run your knife horizontally through the chicken breast. Be very careful not to cut yourself. Also, you want to make sure you don't go all the way through the chicken breast because you want it to butterflied and held together. And that is how you butterfly a chicken breast.