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Mable's 'Almost Healthy' Recipe Book,
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Featured Recipe - Stuffed Cornish Hens
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Mable's Famous
Stuffed Cornish Hens
Delicious small hens. The perfect meal if you're on a diet...
Ingredients:
- 4 Cornish Hens
- Pepper
- Paprika
- A tinch of Worcestershire sauce
- A tinch of Tabasco Sauce
- 2 Jars apricot preserve
- 1 onion quartered
- 1 onion diced
- 2 stalks of celery diced
- 6 mushrooms diced
- 1 apple peeled and diced
- 1 bag of Pepperidge farm stuffing mix
- 2 sprigs of parsley
- 2 chopped scallions
- 2 cups of boiled water seasoned with
- 4 chicken bouillon cubes
- 1/2 stick of sweet butter
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How to prepare it...
Prepare Stuffing...
Sauté diced onions, celery, mushroom, scallions and apple in fry pan in butter.
Add warm water with the chicken bouillon cubes (or chicken stock if you have it
available).
Simmer for five minutes.
Add Stuffing mix slowly and stir until it reaches the consistency you like.
Place Cornish hens in a roasting pan place quartered onion and parsley around the hens.
Season hens with pepper, paprika, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco sauce .
Stuff the hens with the homemade stuffing
Add 1 to 2 cups of water at the bottom of the roasting pan and cook in oven for 2 to 2 and
a half hours at 350 degrees or until hens are brown and tender.
One hour before the hens are done spread the apricot jam all over the hens and continue
cooking.
Server with wild rice and fresh asparagus garnish the hens with slices of navel orange.
And for goodness sake don't over cook the asparagus. They should be green and a bit
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