Serves: 4
Total Calories: 491

4 frozen Rock Cornish hens thawed
2 cups soy sauce
2 cups water
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup honey
8 to 10 one-by-one-eight-inch pieces ginger root
Green Onion Flowers

Remove excess fat from Cornish hens. Wash hens in cold running water drain.

Heat soy sauce, water, wine, sugar, honey and gingerroot to boiling in 3-quart saucepan. Add 1 hen turn hen over, being careful not to break skin. Reduce heat to medium simmer 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low cover and simmer 5 minutes or until done. Remove hen carefully to prevent breaking skin keep warm. Repeat with remaining hens. (If soy sauce mixture does not cover hen, turn hen 2 or 3 times and simmer 10 minutes. Do not allow the mixture to boil too hard, or the skin on the hens will break.) Cut each hen into halves. Garnish with Green Onion Flowers (see Chicken & Duck).

4 servings

From "Betty Crocker's New Chinese Cookbook." Text Copyright 2005 General Mills, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 4
Total Calories: 491
Calories from Fat: 0

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