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Scheherazade and Tender-Hearts Salad Cornish Hens Scheherazade
Serves 2-4
Ingredients:
2 fresh Cornish game hens
4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (reserve shell)
2 teaspoons soybean oil
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
Ground pepper to taste, and salt, if you must
Paprika to taste
2 small onions, halved
4 whole cloves
6 fresh or frozen baby carrots, lightly steamed
1/2 cup combined fresh or frozen baby peas and pearl onions, lightly
steamed
Curried Brown Rice Pilaf
Directions:
Place hens in large shallow bowl. In small bowl, combine
lemon juice, oil, ginger, cumin, pepper, salt and paprika. Pour into and
over Cornish hens. Cover and marinate in refrigerator 30 minutes or
longer.
Preheat oven to 3500F. Stick cloves into onion halves.
Place 2 onion halves and 1/4 squeezed lemon juice inside each hen. Tie
legs together and fold back wings. Sprinkle with pepper and paprika. Roast
about 60 minutes or until juices run clear with no trace of pink when
thigh is pierced. Serve hens with vegetables and
Curried Brown Rice Pilaf.
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