BBQ Butterfly Cornish Hen (salt free recipe)
Last weekend I rotisseried Cornish hen for my family (and regrettably didn’t blog about it) so when I was asked to prepare Cornish hens for this weekend I decided to try out a different method. After some googling, I decided to butterfly them (sometimes called spatchcocking) and then BBQ them and the results were wonderful. Not only was the outside crispy and well spiced, the inside was moist (yes, even the white meat) and delicious!
Butterflying is a technique that requires removing the spine and then flattening the meat. This allows for the meat to lie flatter on the cooking surface and thus get cooked evenly and quickly. You can see a slightly horrifying but very helpful demonstration of the technique in this video. The recipe I used was slightly different than the one in the video but very similar.
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