Cornish Game Hens With Orange Stuffing

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 oranges or 1 tangelo
• 1/4 cup sliced green onion
• 1/4 cup sliced celery
• 1 teaspoon cooking oil
• 1 1/2 cups seasoned stuffing mix
• 2 cornish hens, halved lengthwise
• 1 teaspoon honey

Recipe

• 1 finely shred 1/4 tsp peel from the orange.
• 2 remove and discard the remaining peel.
• 3 section orange over a bowl, squeezing juice out.
• 4 halve sections and set aside.
• 5 add water to the sections to equal 3 tablespoons.
• 6 in a small pan, cook green onion and celery in hot oil until tender but not brown.
• 7 for stuffing, toss together peel, orange sections, onion mixture, stuffing mix and enough of the juice to moisten.
• 8 in a large rectangular cake pan, spoon stuffing into 4 mounds.
• 9 rinse hens and pat dry with paper towels.
• 10 place hens, cavity side down over the stuffing mounds.
• 11 cover loosely with foil.
• 12 roast in a 375°f oven for 30 minutes.
• 13 uncover and roast another 20 minutes.
• 14 stir together honey and 1 tablespoon water. brush over hens.
• 15 roast uncovered for another 15 minutes or until hens are tender.
• 16 use a wide spatula to transfer hens and stuffing to dinner plates.