Boning a Chicken Breast Half

When you buy chicken breasts at the supermarket, they are usually half breasts with four to a package. Remove the bones for gourmet dishes.

Step 1		Holding breast half in both hands, bend and break keel bone.
Step 2		Run thumb between meat and keel bone, removing bone and strip of cartilage.
Step 3		Using both thumbs, loosen meat from rib cage.
Step 4		Pull or scrape breast meat away from bones. (If small piece of pulley bone remains, pull it out or cut away with knife.)

The information presented here is courtesy of the National Chicken Council,
sponsor of the National Chicken Cooking Contest.

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