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My review
Honey Orange Cornish Hens
Carol Semenuk
"An easy dish that looks like you've spent all day cooking and has a fabulous taste. Your family or friends will rave about it, and we don't need to tell them how easy it was to make. It has only 5 ingredients."
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Ingredients
1 h servings 193 calsOriginal recipe yields 4 servings
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- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Place game hen halves with skin sides up into a 9x13-inch roasting pan.
- Roast hens in the preheated oven for 35 minutes.
- Stir orange juice, honey, soy sauce, and vinegar together in a small bowl; brush mixture over hens.
- Roast hens for 5 more minutes and baste again with orange juice mixture. Roast until skin is browned and meat is no longer pink inside, about 10 more minutes.
Footnotes
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- Aluminum foil helps keep food moist, ensures it cooks evenly, keeps leftovers fresh, and makes clean-up easy.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving: 193 calories; 10.5 g fat; 10.9 g carbohydrates; 13.4 g protein; 75 mg cholesterol; 488 mg sodium. Full nutrition
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Most helpful positive review
1/10/2013
This was the first time I have prepared cornish hens. I liked the flavor and was so easy. The "glaze" you brush on hens was quite runny; not a glaze at all. Overall, this was a flavorful and eas...
Most helpful critical review
3/23/2014
Not to my liking. Maybe better if vinegar amt reduced by half or quarter and honey increased somewhat.
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1/10/2013
This was the first time I have prepared cornish hens. I liked the flavor and was so easy. The "glaze" you brush on hens was quite runny; not a glaze at all. Overall, this was a flavorful and eas...
6/3/2014
i'm preparing Cornish hens as i type this. i didn't have OJ on hand, so i used 3 TBSP of orange marmalade thinned out with 1 TSP of hot water. i used the recommended amount of honey, 1 TBSP of s...
6/27/2013
Made it today 6/27/13 for supper all was great until the glaze started to burn so took birds out of pan and put into another saved it from tasting burnt. My wife loved it I will try again
3/17/2015
Didn't have cornish hen, so tried it on four chicken wings. Delicious! Scarfed them down at an embarrassingly fast rate.
2/19/2017
This was very good and easy. I did modify the glaze however, I added a tablespoon of dark brown sugar, then cooked it down in a sauce pan. The brown sugar and cooking it down turns it into a ...
5/4/2016
I used this recipe for a package of chicken thighs and it worked great! Modifications: a) I had a dozen thighs, so ingredients x 4; b) I marinated the thighs overnight in the sauce - no need t...
2/11/2015
This was tender and juicy. The taste was great. I would add a little seasoning to the hens first next time but overall really good!