Free Recipe Orange-Glazed Game Hens

Recipe Type: Free Recipes

Recipe Preparation: boil

Cooking Ingredients for Orange-Glazed Game Hens Recipe

3/4 c Fresh orange juice
1/2 c Orange honey
1/4 c Soy sauce
2 tb Hoisin sauce
2 tb Minced orange peel; (orange
-part only)
3 lg Garlic cloves; pressed
1 tb Minced fresh ginger
2 ts Oriental sesame oil
2 Cornish game hens; halved (1
;-1/2-pound)
3 Oranges; peeled, white pith
; removed
Sesame seeds
6 oz Snow peas

Orange-Glazed Game Hens Preparation

Mix first 8 ingredients in large bowl. Add hens skin side down. Cover and refrigerate 24 hours, turning once. Using small sharp knife, cut between membranes of oranges to release segments. Set orange segments aside. Preheat oven to 400F. Transfer hens to shallow baking pan. Place marinade in heavy small saucepan and boil until reduced to 3/4 cup, about 12 minutes. Brush both sides of hens with reduced marinade. Arrange skin side up in pan. Roast 5 minutes. Baste hens. Cook 10 minutes longer. Reduce oven temperature to 350F. Baste hens and cook 10 minutes. Sprinkle hens with sesame seeds and roast until cooked through, about 10 minutes longer. Let stand 10 minutes. Cook snow peas in pot of boiling salted water until crisp-tender, 1 to 2 minutes. Drain. Place 1 hen half in center of each plate. Alternate snow peas and orange segments around hens and serve. Serves 2 to 4. Bon Appetit March 1992 Converted by MC_Buster. Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

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Recipe Serves: 1

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