Real roasted cornish hens

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Preparation Time:

10 Min

Serves:

Difficulty:

Easy

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Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

2 Cornish hens -- rinsed
1 lemon
4 cloves garlic -- peeled
1 branch fresh rosemary-OR-
2 ts dried rosemary
1 TB honey
1 TB olive oil
: Salt and pepper
1/4 c white wine
1/2 c chicken stock

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Pat the hens dry with a cloth. Slice
lemon in half and squeeze juice into a medium bowl. Stuff hen
cavities with half lemon, 2 cloves garlic and 1/2 branch of fresh
rosemary. Add honey, oil and salt and pepper to lemon juice and blend
together. Baste the hens with the lemon honey sauce. Place in a small
roasting pan and roast for 20 Minutes. Reduce heat and continue
roasting for 20 to 30 minutes basting the hens occasionally. Roast
the hens until the juices run clear from the thigh. Transfer hens to
cutting board and let sit for 10 minutes. Place roasting pan on stove
burner and stir in white wine. Bring to a simmer and scrape brown
bits from bottom of pan. Stir in chicken stock and simmer. Serve hens
hot with sauce.

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Date: 09/26/96