Monday, March 14, 2011

Slow Cooker Cornish Game Hens


Ingredients:

1 large cooking apple, cored, cut in quarters
1 tablespoon soy sauce
4 Rock Cornish game hens
3 tablespoons orange marmalade
1/2 lemon, juice and rind
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper

Directions:

Dip apple quarters into soy sauce,and put one into the cavity of each Cornish hen. Stir wine, marmalade, lemon rind and juice, salt and pepper into remaining soy sauce and brush over Cornish hens. Place Cornish hens breast side down in a 5 to 6-quart slow cooker; pour the remaining sauce over all. Cover and cook on low for 7 hours. Baste occasionally after 4 hours of cooking. Arrange Cornish hens on a heated serving platter; serve with rice.