Mike's 40 Clove Baked Garlic Stuffed Game Hens & Veggies
Mike's 40 Clove Baked Garlic Stuffed Game Hens & Veggies

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Serve with toasted baguette bread to smear that delicious smashed garlic, lemon and onion stuffing on them! Great recipe for Mike's Lemon Garlic Cornish Game Hens. If patient with them, these are wonderfully delicious, crispy, garlicky, lemony and moist game hens.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have mike's 40 clove baked garlic stuffed game hens & veggies using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's 40 Clove Baked Garlic Stuffed Game Hens & Veggies:
  1. Make ready Game Hens [de-thawed - rinsed - dabbed dry inside & out]
  2. Take Fresh Garlic [left whole - trim brown ends + 15 additional cloves for veggie bake]
  3. Take LG Lemon [quartered]
  4. Make ready Baby Potatoes [cleaned - left whole]
  5. Prepare Bibs Celery [+ leaves - 1" chop]
  6. Take Fresh Baby Carrots [sliced in half]
  7. Prepare Medium Red Onion [quartered]
  8. Get Medium White Onion [quartered]
  9. Prepare Green Onions [sliced]
  10. Prepare Green Bell Pepper [sliced]
  11. Get Quality Salted Butter
  12. Get Chicken Broth
  13. Take Lemon Pepper Seasoning
  14. Prepare Italian Seasoning
  15. Make ready Sea Salt
  16. Take Fresh Ground Black Pepper
  17. Get Olive Oil
  18. Take as needed as needeToasted Baguette Slices [with olive oil - served as a side]
  19. Prepare as needed Chicken Stuffing [to be used as a bed for hens]

Set aside in a small bowl. Place remaining garlic cloves and oregano, onion, celery, and bay leaves in the bottom of a medium nonstick roasting pan. Sprinkle the rest of the cloves in the baking dish. Place the hens on top of the garlic.

Steps to make Mike's 40 Clove Baked Garlic Stuffed Game Hens & Veggies:
  1. Here's about all you'll need.
  2. Pre-heat your oven to 425°.
  3. Trim the brown ends from your garlic. Stuff/pack de-thawed, rinsed hens innards with whole fresh garlic, [20 cloves a piece] lemon quarters and slivers of sliced onions. Tie off your hens legs with butchers twine to seal in your vegetables.
  4. Gently lift hen skins, rub in olive oil and season with a bit of lemon juice, lemon pepper and Italian Seasoning underneath.
  5. Rinse and chop vegetables and place at the base of your pan. Add 14 oz Chicken Broth, 1 cube of butter, [sliced] 15 garlic cloves, sea salt, pepper, Italian Seasoning and Lemon Pepper.
  6. Sprinkle chicken broth vegetable coated tops with sea salt, pepper, lemon pepper and Italian Seasoning.
  7. Place hens on an elevated rack just above your veggies and coat them with olive oil. Lightly sprinkle tops with salt, pepper, dried Parsley, Italian seasoning and lemon pepper seasoning.
  8. Wrap up hens and vegetables tightly with tinfoil. You'll want these hens and vegetables to steam together.
  9. Bake at 425° for 1.5 hours. - - To check for doneness - pierce the thickest piece of your largest hen with a knife. If its fluids run clear - you're good to go. Or, if your hens register 165° F with a thermometer. - - Also, use your carrots as your best [doneness] indicator for your veggies. If a knife slides easily thru them - everything else is fully baked. Including your potatoes.
  10. Once fully baked - raise oven temp to 450° - remove tinfoil - and allow hen skins to crisp for 10 minutes longer.
  11. Serve on a bed of Chicken Stuffing. Garnish with fresh parsley. - - Authors Tip: Make an easy 5 minute microwavable Chicken Stove Top Stuffing. But, substitute chicken broth for any water called for and add 2 tbsp dried onions and 1 tbsp dried parsley to that mixture. These easy steps really do make for a memorable stuffing.
  12. Bake or toast your Baguette Bread lightly coated with olive oil. You'll want this side dish for all of the delicious garlic, lemon and onions retrieved from your hens stuffing. It makes a great spread once mashed. Enjoy!

Season hens inside and out with salt and pepper to taste, then stuff with equal amounts butter/vegetable mixture. Tie each hen's legs together with kitchen twine. Cornish Game Hens with Lemon and Garlic are so easy to prepare and so moist and tender. Very simple to make, makes an elegant presentation when served, impressive served for special occasions like a romantic dinner for two, plus makes a great family dinner. These Cornish game hens, split and oven baked with lots of garlic and diced celery, make an appealing main course for dinner or lunch.

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