Recipe: Appetizing Cornish Hens with Wild Rice.

Cornish Hens with Wild Rice.. A Cornish game hen is stuffed with wild rice and mushrooms, then roasted with seasonings and butter. Reduce the heat, cover with a lid, and simmer the wild rice until the kernels burst. The savory rice stuffing goes wonderfully with the moist golden hens and sweet apricot glaze.

Some wild rice won't soak up all the cooking liquid even when it's fully cooked. If this is the case, just pour off the extra liquid and proceed with the recipe. In a mixing bowl combine the onion mixture with the rice, parsley, nuts and dried fruits and season with salt and pepper to taste. You can cook Cornish Hens with Wild Rice. using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Cornish Hens with Wild Rice.

1. Prepare of Ingredients.
2. You need 3 tbsp of melted butter or olive oil.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of garlic powder.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of dried basil.
5. You need 1 tsp of rosemary.
6. You need 1 tsp of black pepper.
7. Prepare 2 of Cornish Hens, 16 to 20 ounces each.
8. Prepare of Rice Side.
9. You need 1 cup of black or wild rice.
10. You need 1/2 cup of brown rice.
11. It's 2 tbsp of butter.
12. It's 1 tsp of garlic powder.
13. You need 2 tbsp of chopped onion.
14. Prepare 1 dash of basil.

Learn how to make Glazed Cornish Hens with Wild Rice Stuffing. Pomegranate-Glazed Cornish Game Hens with Wild Rice-Chestnut Stuffing and Yogurt SauceMartha Stewart. Stuff hens lightly with wild-rice mixture. Put any remaining mixture in a baking dish.

Cornish Hens with Wild Rice. instructions

1. melt butter add garlic powder, basil, rosemary, and pepper.
2. rub mixture on hens.
3. place hens on rotisserie, cook for 45 minutes, until juices no longer pink and skin is golden.
4. For The Rice Side.
5. melt butter in pan.
6. saute onion.
7. add rice and 3 cups water.
8. heat to boiling then cover and reduce heat.
9. stir in garlic powder and basil.
10. simmer for 45 to 60 minutes until tender.
11. for 2 hearty servings serve chickens whole, for two light serving split chickens.
12. serve with the rice as a side.
13. enjoy.

Using kitchen twine, crisscross drumsticks and tie together, if desired. Place remaining wild-rice mixture in oven with hens. Add to soup mixture along with wild rice; mix well. Combine flour, salt, paprika and pepper in a heavy plastic bag; place one or two hens at a time in bag and shake to coat well. To split hens, use a sharp knife to cut along both sides of the breastplate, through the breastbone and along both sides of the backbone.