Roasted Cornish Hens with Potatoes

Roasted chicken and potatoes in a baking dish

This Roasted Cornish Hens with Potatoes dish is a great family meal, both kids and adult love. It's a great comfort food. We serve it with a big side salad!

Course Main Course

Cuisine Albanian, Mediterranean

Keyword roasted cornish hen, roasted hen with Mediterranean spice rub, roasted potatoes

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 15

Servings servings

Calories 862kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

9x14 baking dish

Ingredients

2 Cornish hens about 1-1.5 lbs each
3 lbs russet potatoes
2 ozs carrots
3 tbsps olive oil extra virgin
1 cup chicken stock
1 red onion
1 lemon
1 tbsp dry parsley
1 tbsp dry oregano
1 tbsp salt I prefer Mediterranean Sea Salt
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp dry marjoram

Instructions

Make sure Cornish hens are thawed. Peel the potatoes and place them in a big bowl of water so they don't brown. Prepare spice rub. Mix parsley, oregano, salt, marjoram and paprika well in a separate container. Chop the red onion in cubic shapes and slice the lemon. Peel and cut the carrots too if you didn't get them already peeled.
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit (about 200 degrees Celsius).
Pat dry the Cornish hens with a paper towel. Then rub the herb rub all over the hens, under the arms, over the drumsticks, under the skin etc. Stuff the cavity with red onion and lemon as seen in the video below.
Place both Cornish hens in the baking dish. Then slice the potatoes in big slices and add them around the hens. Add leftover onion pieces all around and add the carrots as well. Use leftover herb rub as seasoning for the potatoes. Drizzle olive oil and finally add 1 cup of chicken stock over the potatoes.
Bake for about 1 hour, check around 30 minutes and baste the hens. Cover with aluminum foil if they look already cooked so they don't burn by the 1 hr mark.
Once baked you. can serve half a Cornish hen per serving with potatoes and a large salad as a side dish. Enjoy:)

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