Roasted cornish game hens with sesame ginger sauce

This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure policy. Print Recipe. Season with salt and pepper and serve immediately. Did You Make This Recipe? Leave a Review! Let the hen rest 5 minutes before transferring to a plate with the vegetables. Drizzle with the sesame oil, garnish with the scallion, and serve. Recipe Notes Edit Delete. Save to Recipe Box. Add Recipe Note. Saved Add to List Add to List. Reviews Rate or Review. Reviews We haven't received any reviews yet for this recipe.

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Recipe Focaccia. Cooking time 1 hr. All the time 1 hr. Course Main course. Cuisine American. Portions 4 people. Calories per serving kcal. Author: Julia. In a bowl, combine 5 tablespoons of softened unmelted butter, 2 tablespoons olive oil, Italian spice, fresh thyme and generous amounts of salt and pepper. Mix well to combine.

Place the breasts of horned hens up in a large toast or baking brazier dish. I used a 3. Rub this herb mixture all over the outside of Cornish hens. Sprinkle the outside breast side of Cornish hens with a small amount of additional Italian spice and sprinkle with more salt and freshly ground black pepper.

During these 15 minutes, while the corn hens are baked, prepare the vegetables. Remove yellow leaves from Brussels sprouts and cut each in half. Peel a squash, grate it and cut it into cubes. After the cornbread chickens have been cooked for 15 minutes, remove the toast from the oven.

Add diced sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts halved to the bottom of the pan. Lift the horned hens and add a few sweet potatoes under the birds.

While you are doing this, mix the vegetables with the butter and the juices released by the birds. Arrange the vegetables around the birds.

Sprinkle vegetables with more salt and freshly ground black pepper. Rub the outside chest side of Cornish hens with more butter 1 tablespoon or more. Make sure the thermometer does not touch the bone. Also, use the meat thermometer before 40 minutes above after the first 25 or 30 minutes.

Remove the chickens from the oven and let them rest for 10 minutes. Transfer baked cornbread chickens and roasted vegetables to a dish. Serve cornbread hens whole or cut in half. Garnish with fresh thyme sprigs. The nutrition information on this site is for personal use only and is provided for convenience and courtesy only. The accuracy of the nutrition information for any recipe on this website is not guaranteed. It should not be used as a substitute for the advice of a professional nutritionist.

Keyword roasted horned hens. Don't have an account? Roasted Cornish Hens This simple and delicious recipe only takes 1 hour to make because the Cornish game chickens are so small and requires only one pan, so the cleaning is minimal.

The Cornish hens are brushed first herb butter made with Italian spice or Herbs of Provence , fresh thyme, butter and olive oil. Then, the Cornish hens are baked in a roaster in the oven. Halfway through the baking, add Brussels sprouts and cubed sweet potatoes to the roast under and around the horned hens, and keep cooking it all together!

Everything is cooked one pan , and cleaning is easy! Holiday main course Roasted horned hens are perfect Christmas recipe. What are Cornish Houndstooths?