Cornish Game Hens With Vanilla Date Pure And Fuji Apples

Recipe Ingredients

2		Cornish game hens - deboned
2 tablespoons	30ml	Olive oil
		Salt and pepper to taste
1 teaspoon	5ml	Allspice
1		Lemon
1 teaspoon	5ml	Black caraway seeds
2		Fuji apples - cored and sliced
1 cup	237ml	White wine
1 tablespoon	15ml	Honey
1		Cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon	5ml	Tarragon - chopped
1 tablespoon	15ml	Lemon zest

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven at 400 degrees.

Remove breast and leg from hens and debone the thigh. Season with allspice, black caraway seeds, olive oil, salt and pepper. Squeeze lemon juice over the meat. Pan sear hens, skin-side down, on high heat for one minute. Turn and do the same to the other side. Remove breast and cook leg and thigh for an additional minute.

Place hens in baking pan and bake for approximately six to eight minutes. Add sliced apples to same pan with one tablespoon butter and heat through. Add cinnamon, wine, honey, tarragon and lemon zest, then simmer for two minutes or until reduced by half.

Place apples on plate with some of the juice from the pan, top with one breast, thigh and leg, then finish with a rosette of Vanilla Date Pure.

Yields 2 servings.

Source:
Home & Garden TV -- All In Good Taste

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