Complete Meal: Stuffed Cornish Hens with Apricot Glaze Ingredients Meal includes: Stuffed Cornish Hens with Apricot Glaze Bread-sausage stuffing Sweet Potatoes Puree Elegant garlicky green beans Rolls *3 Cornish hens (1-1/2 lbs each) *1-tablespoon butter *1/3 cup apricot preserves *2/3 cup chopped dried apricots *1/2 cup chopped dried cherries or raisins *1/2 cup sherry *8 ox frozen breakfast sausage links, 8 links *1 large onion, chopped *6 slices firm white sandwich bread, cubed, about 5 cups *2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley *1-1/4 cup dried sage, divided *3/4 tsp salt, divided *1/4 tsp pepper, divided *1/2 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth Directions 1. Preheat over to 425 degrees 2. Combine apricots, cherries and sherry 3. Reserve 4. Cook sausage in skillet according to package directions 5. Remove all but 1 tablespoon of fat from skillet 6. Add onion 7. Cook over medium heat until soften (4 minutes) 8. Chop sausage 9. In bowl combine bread, sausage, onion, parsley, 1 tsp sage, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/8 teaspoon pepper 10. Add broth and reserved fruit mixture 11. Toss 12. Fill each hen cavity with stuffing about 1 cup 13. Sprinkle hens with remaining salt, pepper & sage 14. Truss 15. Place hens on rack in roasting pan 16. Roast 20 minutes 17. Brush with butter 18. Reduce oven temperature to 350 digress 19. Roast until meat thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 180 degrees 20. About 1 hour �5 minutes 21. Transfer remaining stuffing to buttered baking dish 22. Bake until browned around edges � 30 minutes 23. Combine preserves with 1-tablespoon water 24. Brush over hens twice during last 15 minutes of cooking time
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