Home Style Chicken

Directions

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   CHICKEN---------------------------------- 2 ea Chicken, legs with thigh -- attached ( 1 to 1 1/4 -- pounds) 1/4 ts Salt 1/4 ts Pepper, white

2. 2

   For Chicken: ============ Hold each chicken portion by the end of a leg and use a kitchen towel to grab the skin at the thigh end

3. 3

   Pull off the skin and discard

4. 4

   With a sharp boning or paring knife, slit the meat on the legs and thighs, cutting parallel to the bone

5. 5

   Scrape the meat away from the bone

6. 6

   Cut through the joint between the leg and the thigh

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   Scrape away all of the remaining meat and cut or pull out the bones

8. 8

   Place each boned piece of chicken, skinned side down, on a work surface and break up tendons by scoring the meat with a cleaver