Cornish game hens

[BaconGrease]

Brined in salt, sugar, molasses, fish sauce, soy, lime, and garlic
baked over potatoes garlic, parsley and onion.
A little bacon over top to keep it basted.
couple more pics on the blog
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[gjbingham]

Re: Cornish game hens

Nice, nice - pretty dish! I can almost smell it from here. How was it?

[Inishta]

Re: Cornish game hens

Superb dish..........more detailed recipe for the marinade would be great........

[Frances]

Re: Cornish game hens

Mmmmmh... looks fantastic!

I really really shouldn't check out the forum when I'm hungry.

[SpringJim]

Re: Cornish game hens

Pretty, superb, fantastic....

looks good enough to eat

I like the method of cooking the meat over the potatoes/vegetables,
Thanks

[BaconGrease]

Re: Cornish game hens

Ok these are all eyeball measures for the brine.
I put the hens in a half gallon container and almost covered them with water (probably 3-4 inches I was trying to leave some room for the next ingredients)
added 2/3 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of salt
2 tablespoons of dark molasses
3 tablespoons fish sauce
2 tablespoons soy sauce
The juice and the left overs of 3 limes
4-5 large cloves of garlic mashed
a generous grinding of pepper

I the added enough water just to cover.
put them in the fridge for 24 hrs

I then drained them and patted them dry stuffed half a lime and 3 cloves of garlic in each.

The potatoes are small red potatoes salt pepper onions quartered garlic chopped, some roasted bell pepper. I added a little stock from the necks to the dish and baked at 400 deg for about 80 minutes.