# Spatchcock Chicken with Roasted Cabbage

A detailed guide on how to spatchcock a chicken and roast it with cabbage for a delicious meal.

- Total time: 40 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- Whole Chicken
- 0.5 cup Cider Vinegar
- pinches Black Pepper
- 0.5 teaspoon Onion Powder
- 0.5 teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 0.5 teaspoon Cayenne Pepper
- pinches Kosher Salt
- 1.5 cup Mayonnaise
- 0.5 Head of Cabbage
- 1 Spanish Onion

## Instructions

1. Turn the chicken around so its facing away from you, sit it on your cutting board.
2. Cut the chicken on one side of the backbone all the way down.
3. Insert your knife on the other side of this backbone and cut it all the way down.
4. Place the knife on the breastbone and give it a whack.
5. Pry open the chicken and set it onto a wire rack.
6. In a mixing bowl, combine about a half cup of cider vinegar, two good pinches of black pepper, about a half a teaspoon of onion powder, about a half a teaspoon of garlic powder, about a half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper, and two good pinches of kosher salt.
7. Add about a cup and a half of mayonnaise and whisk everything together.
8. Drizzle some of your white barbecue sauce on top of your chicken.
9. Massage the sauce into the chicken and season with kosher salt.
10. Set the chicken aside.
11. Take a head of cabbage and cut it right through the core.
12. Hold your knife at an angle and remove this piece of core.
13. Slice the cabbage thicker.
14. Place the sliced cabbage onto your half sheet tray.
15. Slice and add one spanish onion to the sheet tray.
16. Place the chicken right on top of the cabbage.
17. Place it in an oven preheated to 450 degrees for about 40 minutes or until the chicken skin gets nice and crispy and the internal temperature of your chicken thigh hits about 160 degrees Fahrenheit.

## Equipment

- Cutting board
- Knife
- Wire rack
- Mixing bowl
- Whisk
- Spoon
- Sheet tray
- Oven

## Tips

- When cutting the chicken, you can use kitchen shears as well.
- The backbone can be used to make homemade chicken stock.
- You can use any combination of vinegars or lemon juice in the white barbecue sauce.
- Adjust cayenne pepper quantity to your heat tolerance.
- If you need to drizzle more white barbecue sauce, ensure the spoon does not touch the raw chicken.
- You can use homemade mayonnaise or add any herbs to the sauce.
- If you don't own a wire rack, sit your chicken right on top of the cabbage.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DFNS0UoOOG8/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/9bc2f75c-2f67-4c08-b2d2-29234e6974f9
- Extracted: 2025-07-29

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