An curved arrow pointing right. When you buy prepackaged chicken parts at the grocery store, you are typically paying more for convenience. Don't be intimidated by cutting up the whole bird yourself.

Before you start, grab your cutting board, kitchen knives, a sturdy pair of kitchen shears and some food prep gloves. Breaking down a whole chicken sounds ... You can break up the wing even ...

An curved arrow pointing right. When you buy prepackaged chicken parts at the grocery store, you are typically paying more for convenience. Don't be intimidated by cutting up the whole bird yourself.

But for dinner purposes, butterflying is just a simple way to cut a chicken breast, sans magic wand. Unlike spatchcocking, which deals with the whole bird, this instance of butterflying involves ...

If you don’t want to cut up a whole chicken, you can use 3 pounds chicken parts. Recipe by Ruth Cousineau, Gourmet; photo by Marcus Nilsson.