Grilled Spring Chicken with Rosemary

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Ingredients/ Instructions

Ingredients

• 2 game hens
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 blood orange
• 1 tbsp Asian garlic chili sauce (hot)
• 1 tsp minced fresh rosemary
• 6 sprigs rosemary leaves
• salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

Step 1

Put 2 game hens into a large bowl. Cut 1 blood orange into half, squeeze the juice into the bowl.
Add 1 tbsp Asian garlic chili sauce (hot),
1 tsp minced fresh rosemary,
6 sprigs rosemary leaves,
some salt and pepper. Stir well.
It would better put some chili sauce and some minced rosemary under the skin of the hens.
Chill for 2 hours.

Step 2

Then put the hens on a grill, cover the grill. Then grill the hens for about 10 minutes on one side, then flip the hens over.
Grill 30-45 minutes for the other side.

Comments

• John - Mon 08 Feb 2010 @ 12:02

  I knew it was only a matter a time before I'd set a video recipe to the Chicken Dance. This spring and summer, millions of inebriated people will be joyously flapping their elbows, and bobbing their heads, to this tune at weddings all over the county. I have no problem with them, they're drunk, what do you expect? It's the sober ones that go out there to "get their Mick Jagger on," I wonder about. They really should know better! That's right, I'm talking to you Tom and Katie (see photo below).

• John - Mon 08 Feb 2010 @ 12:02

  Anyway, this video is a recipe for the game hen (aka Spring Chicken) I posted a picture of a few weeks ago. It was so delicious and beautiful I promised to film it the next time I made it, and I did. The key ingredient here is the erotic, exotic blood orange. They're Spanish in origin I believe, and add a wonderful sweet/tart flavor that's just perfect with the spicy chili sauce and aromatic rosemary. I know what you're thinking, "this jerk just used another ingredient I can't buy where I live!" "So much for that $1,000 donation I was just about to send him…now I'm sending it to Ralph Nader instead." Hey, I don’t blame you. I'm sure it's frustrating trying to find some of the stuff I use. Sometimes I even make up fake ingredients to mess with you. But, when it comes to the blood orange, there is a solution.

• John - Mon 08 Feb 2010 @ 12:02

  Some dude named Jeff, suggested in a comment on the Game Recognize Game Hen post, that blood orange juice could be simulated with regular orange and a splash of pomegranate juice. Brilliant! In fact, it may be even better. Give this a try, and enjoy!