[recipe servings=”4-6″ time=”1hr” difficulty=”Easy”]
[recipe-ingredients]
- 3 Cornish game hens
- 3/4 cup soy sauce
- 3 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tsp lemon pepper
- 3/4 lemon, dived into 3 wedges
- 1/2 cup parsley
- 12 cloves garlic, smashed
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp butter, melted
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- In a large bag, put in soy sauce, oyster sauce, garlic, parsley and lemon pepper. Place Cornish game hens in the mixture, and marinate in the fridge for a few hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 450F degrees.
- Take out the hens and place on a roasting pan. Put a wedge of lemon inside each hens as well as 3 garlic cloves.
- Roast in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Then reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees. Continue roasting about 25 minutes longer, or until hens are golden brown and juices run clear.
- Create a butter mixture, by melting the butter in a microwave in 15 second intervals and mix with oil.
- Baste with pan juices and butter mixture every 10 minutes.
- Transfer hens to a platter, pouring any cavity juices into the roasting pan. Tent hens with aluminum foil to keep warm.
- **Optional** Transfer pan juices and garlic cloves to a medium saucepan and boil until liquids reduce to a sauce consistency, about 6 minutes.
- Serve hens with sauce. Enjoy!
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This is a recipe for Garlic Roast Cornish Game Hens. I made some slight adjustment to the recipe after I have made it so the photos may not correspond as accurately. Cornish Game Hens are interesting as they are not only little tiny chickens but are very tender. Overall, It’s a fairly straight forward recipe and pretty interesting to eat a tiny chickens.
