How to Cut Thin Sliced Chicken Cutlets

My husband and I HATE thick chicken. We need the chicken to be as thin as possible to really enjoy it, but those pre-packaged thin sliced chicken cutlets are so expensive-so I make my own! Every week I buy one or two big packages of chicken that has 5 whole breasts in it.

I use a sharp serrated knife, a meat tenderizer (I got mine at Bed Bath and Beyond for $15- It's an Oxo Good Grips Meat Tenderizer) and a wooden cutting board.

I take each chicken breast and place it on the cutting board.

Then I cut away all of the fat.

It will look like this after all of the fat is cut away.

Now it's time to slice. Hold the knife at one end and slice all the way down to the other end making one thin slice of chicken.

Repeat this step two more times until you have three thin slices of chicken from your one whole chicken breast. You will have a lot of excess chicken left over after the whole process is complete. No worries! 

Now, take each slice and place one at a time on the cutting board. You will pound both sides of the chicken with the meat tenderizer until they are really thin.

  

Repeat this for all slices of chicken. 

Your chicken will be very thin and ready for whatever you are cooking! Repeat all of these steps for all of the whole chicken breasts.

I like to buy the whole package for the week. I put them in gallon Ziploc baggies, 7 slices in one and 8 slices in the other (because there are always 5 whole breasts in a package that works out to 15 thin slices). I usually end up freezing one or both and then put them in the refrigerator the day before I am ready to use them. They stay in the freezer for a while so if I don't use it one week I can always use it the next. Enjoy!

Love,
Cinderella