Brick Fried Fowl

[Bite Me]

If you haven't done this you should try it out. Works well with Chicken, Game Hens, Pheasant, Quail and I would imagine it would work well with Water Fowl if I can ever get Lee to give me one.

First thing is to butterfly and bone your bird. Cut out the backbone with some shears, flip it over and remove the breast plate and the rib cage. There should be nothing left but the leg bones when you are done. Truss the legs through some small slits that you make in the skin and clip off the wing tips.
Takes a little practice but how bad can you screw it up? Afterall, it's just a chicken.



Next pat the bird dry, rub with a little olive oil then season the bird. I use salt, pepper, some sage and rosemary. Season it on both sides.



Now go out in the yard and find yourself three bricks. They are probably in the pile that your wife has been asking you to move since you bought the house. Wash em off and wrap them in foil.



Find yourself two big pans. I use a griddle and a big frying pan. The pans should be big enough to hold the whole bird flat and the other needs to fit inside of it. That big fryer in the pic is big enough to start your own third world country.



Heat the pan to medium high and throw that bird on it making sure it is lying flat. Place the other fryer on top of the chicken and fill it with your bricks. Should look something like this.



Press down on your bricks then leave it alone for about 10 minutes. After that, flip it over and it should look like this.



Put the pan back on her and let it go about 12 minutes. When it's done you will have a moist ,boneless bird with a nice crispy skin.
Besides that, it's a cool way to cook a bird.

[reelaxin]

This is on the gotta try list. Help a brother out a bit - how do you get the backbone out first? Did you split it up the breast side and then fillet all the bones out?

I do likes me some yard bird and that is some good lookin bird.

Bingo on the bricks - bout a half a cube been there since we built the place. Hey the snakes need somewhere to live too.

M

[Bite Me]

This is on the gotta try list. Help a brother out a bit - how do you get the backbone out first? Did you split it up the breast side and then fillet all the bones out?

I do likes me some yard bird and that is some good lookin bird.

Bingo on the bricks - bout a half a cube been there since we built the place. Hey the snakes need somewhere to live too.

M

Turn the bird breast down and with some stout shears start at the ass and just cut the length of the bird on both sides of the back bone. Once you do that the back bone is cleared away. Then turn the bird over and make a few small cuts along the breast plate, that will pull right out. If you work a good sharp knife under the rib cage they will come off as well. There will be a few small bones left like the wish bone that are easy to cut out once you get there.
There is nothing like a totally bonless bird for brick frying.

The bricks behind my house have survived two marriages.

[reelaxin]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot this weekend.

[24/7 BAIT CO.]

wow, looks great, i gotta try this