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Prep time
4 hours half-hour -
Cook time
1 hour -
Serves
4
Creator Notes
Brining your hens ends up in flavorful, moist birds with fall-off-the bone meat and heaps pan juices for spooning over this one-obtain supper. A further-perfect roasting obtain contains the hens and veggies suddenly, plus it makes cleanup a snap. Actually be at liberty to replace other root veggies comparable to rutabaga, fingerling potatoes, rainbow carrots, or golden beets, relying to your preferences and what appears to be like easiest at your native market. —Judy Haubert
Take a look at Kitchen Notes
This recipe turned into developed in partnership with If You Care. —The Editors
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Substances
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1/3 cup
maple syrup, plus 1/4 cup, divided
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1/3 cup
kosher salt, plus more to model
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4
Cornish recreation hens (1 to 1 1/2 kilos every)
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1
puny bunch thyme, divided
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1/2 cup
apricot jam
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4 tablespoons
salted butter, melted
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2 tablespoons
soy sauce (or gluten-free tamari)
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2 teaspoons
freshly grated ginger
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1 lunge
freshly ground sad pepper, to model
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8
medium radishes, halved
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3
medium carrots (use rainbow for extra colour), cut into 1-meander pieces
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2
puny fennel bulbs, trimmed, halved, and sliced into 1/4-meander pieces
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3 tablespoons
olive oil
Instructions
- Combine 3 cups hot water, 1/3 cup maple syrup, and 1/3 cup kosher salt in a truly perfect bowl and lunge to combine. Add 3 cups ice water and lunge unless frigid. Add the hens and 8 to 10 thyme sprigs to the brine and space a puny plate directly on top of the birds to preserve them submerged. Refrigerate for as a minimal 4 hours, or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 400° F. Desire hens from the brine, pat them dry, and season with salt and pepper. Intention 3 to 4 thyme sprigs in every fowl cavity. Combine the final 1/4 cup maple syrup with the jam, melted butter, soy sauce, ginger, and salt and pepper to model.
- Toss the vegetables with the final thyme sprigs, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Intention an extra-perfect parchment roasting obtain on a rimmed baking sheet and spread the vegetables in an even layer interior. Intention the hens on top of the vegetables and brush evenly and thickly with the apricot-maple glaze. Tightly seal the obtain by folding and crimping alongside the edges.
- Roast unless an immediate-learn thermometer inserted into the breast of the hens (by the parchment) reads 165° F, about 45 to 50 minutes. Desire from the oven and cut by the reside of the obtain the utilization of kitchen shears, and pull relief the parchment to teach the hens. Extend oven temperature to 550° F and return to the oven unless the skin is crisped and browned, about 10 minutes more. Divide the hens and vegetables between four plates and spoon pan juices over top.