I'm doing the cooking this year for Christmas and I was gonna cook Cornish hens,and I need some cooking tips and ingredients to add in.Please!?I've never cooked these before any help will be appreciated,thank you!
2006-12-19 07:47:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
"Lemon Rosemary Cornish Hens" - 4 servings
4 Cornish game hens (1 lb. each); fresh or frozen and thawed
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine; melted
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. leaf rosemary; crumbled
Preheat oven to 400*. Rinse and dry hens.
Combine melted butter, lemon juice and rosemary; brush hens inside and out with half of the mixture. Place hens on rack in roasting pan; roast 50 minutes. Baste with remaining butter mixture; roast 10 minutes more or until hens are tender and juices run clear when thigh is pierced with a fork.
2006-12-19 16:21:11 · answer #1 · answered by JubJub 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're sooooo easy to cook, just think of them as itty bitty chickens! I dump some Mrs. Dash in the cavity, stuff in part of a raw onion, a baby carrot or 2, a bay leaf, some garlic - either fresh or powdered. Then rub a bit of olive oil over the outside, use a bit more Mrs. Dash, maybe some rubbed sage or other spices you like, and chunk up some potatoes to put around the hens. ( I also spice those up) Sprinkle a little white wine over the whole pan, add a bit of water if you want, then put them into the oven at 350 for about an hour and 15 minutes. Baste them a few times, sprinkle with a little more white wine...geez, now I'm hungry! Hope this helps, I'm going to go start dinner now...
2006-12-19 07:59:38 · answer #2 · answered by woodlands127 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cornish Hens are great! Bake like you would a baked chicken. Stuff with a cornbread stuffing and raisins, celery and onions chopped. Add the juice from around the baked chicken to the stuffing with some water, salt pepper...etc. Bake in the hens or separate but make sure the stuffing stays moist. Cut hens in half for 1 serving. Delicious! You can do it...it's easy. Good luck and Merry Christmas!!!
2006-12-19 08:03:59 · answer #3 · answered by inhis_image 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
clean and dry them well pat them with oil and sprinkle salt a and pepper on the top and sides. Put half of a small lemon 1/4 onion some rosemary and a few carrots. Do this for each one. Cook about an hour and 15 min for two. Cranberry stuffing is wonderful along side of these. Take 2 cloves garlic 1/2 med onion 3 stalks of celery 1/2 cup dried cranberries and saute in butter. Add one box of stuffing follow directions until you come to the cooking part and cook in a Pyrex dish for 25 minutes at 350*. Garnish with a few dried cranberries.
2006-12-19 08:00:51 · answer #4 · answered by daisygirl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roast them in a 350 degree oven stuffed or unstuffed, basically like a chicken. They do cook faster however because they are much smaller
2006-12-19 10:36:14 · answer #5 · answered by Margaret W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
www.recipezaar.com has some good recipes for cornish hens.
2006-12-19 11:11:23 · answer #6 · answered by Common_Sense2 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋