Oven Roasted Spicy Spatchcocked Chicken Recipe

Spatchcock (or spatchcocked) may be a funny-sounding term to describe butterflied poultry, but there's nothing funny about how great it will taste. Spatchcocking is a method of preparing a chicken, turkey, goose or duck. The process basically entails the bird being butchered in a way that allows it to be splayed flat for cooking. As a result, the bird's cooking time is much quicker than a whole chicken. Once you have butterflied or spatchcocked the bird, you can roast it in the oven or put it on your BBQ grill or stovetop flat grill. The process of spatchcocking a chicken may sound a tad intimidating, but you should be able to take on the challenge immediately. Once you've done it a few times, you'll see that it really does get easier every timejust like when you first learn how to cut up a whole chicken on your own. However, if you don't want to take on the spatchcocking yourself, you can ask the butcher at your grocery store to do it for you.