Chef Hubert Kellers Applewood Smoked Cornish Game Hen

Here is a link to the .pdf of Chef Hubert Kellers original recipe.

If you substitute more olive oil for the butter in this recipe you could make it dairy-free.

This was delicious. The apple wood smoke adds a wonderful flavor to the bird and the whole house for that matter. This recipe might best be adapted for the grill.

The version pictured is served with sautéed mushrooms in a demi-glace with Jasmine rice.

While serving the whole hen has a novelty factor, practicality might best be served by breaking the bird down before serving to youngsters. There is meat on the legs, but the breast meat is the Cornish Game Hen.

Chef Keller's recipe has cooking times that were not even close to my cooking times. After 25 minutes of smoking time, my birds needed at least an hour in the oven at 375 to get to safely cooked temperatures. Make sure your poultry is cooked to an internal temperature of at least 165 degrees F. Salmonella is not as potentially lethal as anaphylaxis but is just about as much fun.

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