Zee Galantine or Ballotine

The title’s suppose to be in a french guy’s voice, more specifically this guy’s voice:

Apparently I should be able to debone a chicken in about a minute, according to Jacques Pépin.  Well last night, with the help of a friend scrolling the youtube video, I took that challenge and finish in just under 30 minutes.  Here’s the chicken completely deboned:

deboned-chicken

Chicken completely deboned in 30 minutes. Also two “lollipops” using the wings.

We stuffed it with the spinach and mushrooms he used in the video and wrapped it up with butcher’s twine:

Ask your butcher for twine when you buy the chicken, they gave it to me for free.

Ask your butcher for twine when you buy the chicken, they gave it to me for free.

After cooking to 155F and resting here is the golden chicken (took about an hour):

golden-chicken

Golden and juicy.

 

Cut...

Cut…

And served with yellow squash.

And served with yellow squash.

Next time…BACON, seriously I don’t know what we were thinking…

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