Roasted Cornish Hens with Black-Olive Butter

Name: Roasted Cornish Hens with Black-Olive Butter
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons black pepper; 1 Tbsp drained capers (in brine); 2 kilograms Cornish hens (not frozen), halved lengthwise; 59 milliliters dry white wine; 2 garlic cloves; 1 Tbsp coarsely chopped pitted Kalamata or other brine-cured black olives; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 Tbsps coarsely chopped shallot; 118 milliliters stick unsalted butter, softened

Roasted Cornish Hens with Black-Olive Butter might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe makes 8 servings with 695 calories, 49g of protein, and 53g of fat each. This recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and primal diet. If you have garlic cloves, capers, wine, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour.

Instructions

Put oven rack in upper third of oven and preheat oven to 500°F.

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With motor of a food processor running, drop garlic cloves into processor to finely chop.

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Whole Garlic Cloves

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Food Processor

Add shallot and pulse until finely chopped.

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Shallot

Heat 1 tablespoon butter in a small skillet over moderate heat until foam subsides, then add garlic mixture (do not wash bowl of food processor), pepper, and 1/4 teaspoon salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until garlic begins to turn golden, 3 to minutes. Return garlic mixture to food processor and add olives and capers. Pulse until olives and capers are finely chopped.

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Butter

Capers

Garlic

Olives

Pepper

Salt

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Add 5 tablespoons butter and pulse until smooth.

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Butter

Brush baking pan with oil (1 tablespoon).

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Cooking Oil

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Working with 1 hen half at a time, slide your index finger under skin on each breast and around legs, including drumsticks, being careful not to tear skin.

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Chicken Drumsticks

Place 1 tablespoon olive butter under skin on each half hen, then massage skin over thigh, drumstick, and breast to distribute butter.

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Chicken Drumsticks

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Olives

Arrange hen halves, skin sides up, in baking pan. Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in small skillet, then brush evenly over skin of hens.

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Butter

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Sprinkle hens evenly with remaining 3/4 teaspoon salt.

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Roast hens until golden and just cooked through, about 30 minutes.

Transfer hens to a platter, then straddle baking pan over 2 burners and add wine. Deglaze pan by simmering over low heat, stirring and scraping up brown bits with a wooden spoon, 2 minutes.

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Wine

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Transfer pan sauce to a small serving bowl and skim fat with a spoon.

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Sauce

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Serve hens with sauce.

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Sauce

·Olive butter can be made 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature before using.· Hens can be stuffed with olive butter 4 hours ahead and chilled, covered with plastic wrap, in baking pan.

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