Skillet Chicken has white bits???

marjolycookie

DISCLAIMER: I'm not much of a chef. I just started learning how to cook last year. Please bear with me.

I almost always chop up my chicken and stir fry it, or stick it in the oven. This week, I put my chicken into a skillet with some spices, put the lid on, and let it cook for a while on low heat. It is boneless, skinless, low fat frozen chicken. After a while, these weird white bits appeared on the top of it! Is that fat or something leaking out? I scraped it off since I wasn't sure why it was doing that.

However, skillet chicken is awesome for being super moist and flavorful! I just wish I knew what was going on with it.

dls06

That is just the natural juices coming out. If you butterfly ( slice length wise) and pound the chicken first, ( put between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and pound with heavy bottom pan if you don't have a meat mallet) this will not happen.
Salmon does it too if you cook it on too high heat, but don't pound it.

Sl1ghtly

Were they wiggling around?