Roasted Cornish Game Hens
"Game hens marinated in an herb and sweet/sour mixture, baked in the oven or, alternatively, spit-roasted. I like to serve 1/2 a hen on a nest of pasta, surrounded by vegetables. To prepare more than one hen, simply use 2 T honey and 1 T each vinegar and garlic per hen. Cook time includes 4 hour marinating time."
- Ready In:
- 5hrs 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
1 game hen
- Serves:
- 2
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
- fresh thyme
- fresh marjoram or oregano
- fresh sage
- salt and pepper
- 1 Cornish hen, split in half
directions
- Mix all the ingredients in a plastic bag and marinate, refrigerated, for 4 hours.
- Place chicken, skin side up, and marinade in baking dish and bake in 375° oven for 1 hour or until cooked through.
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Reviews
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We thought these were very good! The combination of honey, vinegar, and fresh herbs gave a great sweet, yet savory taste to the birds. We served it with peacock vegetables (#18970) and a dinner roll. It was a wonderful, filling meal indeed! Thanks so much for posting your recipe :)
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.
