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Cornish Hens And Wild Rice

Type: Poultry
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

4   Cornish hens
2   Green onion
  Slivered almonds
  Salt and pepper to taste
  Fresh parsley
  Apricot brandy
  Mushrooms
  Oleo
  Wild rice or wild and long>>>>
  Grain rice

Recipe Instructions

Clean hens; salt and pepper outside and cavity. Saute shallots in oleo. Chop giblets and parsley, saute all in oleo until soft. Bring rice to boil, add sauteed ingredients. Add mushrooms. Let cook until rice is soft and dry. Add almonds. Stuff cavity of hens with this mixture. Tie legs together. Melt more oleo and add apricot brandy, put plenty on outside of hens. Place hens on rack of oven pan with at least 1 inch of water in bottom to steam up. Bake at 350 F. about 45 minutes until golden brn. You may continue adding melted oleo and brandy.

Above can be prepared in advance for dinner guests and when they arrive, start baking.

Serve with acorn squash and a Caesar salad, or Baked Hubbard squash.

Source:
May Ditano, Columbus Ristorante, San Fran (1998)

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