Chinese Knife Skills: Shredding Chicken Breast
In some recipes, we need to shred chicken breast or pork. So do you know how to cut them into filaments of uniform thickness? When you shred the chicken to an even thickness, then that dish will look beautiful. Let me demonstrate to you today using a chicken breast. In the recipes of shredded chicken with silver sprouts and shredded pork with green peppers, we can use this method.
Yield: 1 sliced breast
Cost: $4.00
Equipment
- 1 cutting board
Materials
- 1 whole chicken breast
Instructions
- First, we need to cut from the white line part of the chicken breast, dividing the chicken breast into two parts, because their grains are opposite.
- Remove the skin and fat from the chicken breast. Then we press the chicken breast with our left hand, and use a knife with our right hand to cut from the bottom of the chicken breast, dividing a chicken breast into 6-7 thin slices. It depends on how thin you can slice it. Note that your knife needs to be balanced, if the knife is askew then the thickness of the chicken will be different.
- Shred the sliced chicken breast and shred it according to its texture, by cutting across the grain.
