Game hens a la orange

4 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 Cornish hens; split
4 tablespoons Butter
2 tablespoons Oil
1½ cup Breadcrumbs
¼ cup Chopped onions
1 teaspoon Sage
¼ cup Slivered almonds
1 can Mandarin oranges
½ cup Orange juice
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
2 tablespoons Orange liqueur

Directions

STUFFING

ORANGE SAUCE

Preheat oven to 325øF. Put butter and oil in a saut‚ pan and heat until butter melts. Add hens and saut‚ on all sides until nicely browned. Remove and set aside. Add onion, breadcrumbs, almonds and sage to the pan. Stir and brown slightly. Add oranges and stir lightly. Spoon into a baking pan in individual mounds to equal number of hen halves. Place a game hen half on each mound. Combine cornstarch, orange juice and liqueur in a small pan.

Heat until clear and pour over hens. Bake for 1½ hours.

NOTES : Halved Cornish hens oven-roasted over mounds of almond, orange,= breadcrumb stuffing and with an orange liqueur sauce. One of my better creations.

Recipe by: Marybeth Bontadelli

Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 258 by Bob & Carole Walberg <walbergr@...> on Nov 15, 1997

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