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Cornish Hens With Red Wine Sauce Recipe
by Global Cookbook

Cornish Hens With Red Wine Sauce
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  Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 3 Tbsp. Pure extra virgin olive oil
  • 4 x Cornish hens split in half down the back Salt to taste Freshly-grnd black pepper to taste
  • 1 c. Peeled pearl onions (frzn are fine)
  • 1/2 c. Diced carrots
  • 1/2 c. Diced turnips
  • 2 Tbsp. Dry thyme
  • 3 x Garlic cloves crushed
  • 1 c. Dry red wine
  • 1/2 c. Canned plum tomatoes liquid removed, crushed
  • 2 c. Chicken stock
  • 1/4 c. Crumbled crisp-fried bacon

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Heat the extra virgin olive oil in a large, deep skillet. Season the chicken halves with the salt and pepper and brown well on both sides before removing and placing in an ovenproof casserole.
  3. To the skillet in that you cooked the chicken, add in the onions, carrots, turnips, thyme and garlic and saute/fry till the vegetables begin to wilt. Add in the red wine, plum tomatoes and chicken stock to the vegetables and cook 10 min over medium heat. Pour the vegetable mix over the chicken in the ovenproof casserole and bake 1 1/4 hrs.
  4. When the chicken has finished baking, add in the cooked, crumbled bacon to the casserole and serve with chive mashed potatoes.
  5. This recipe yields 4 servings.