Get the App

Recipes

Find a Recipe Blue Ribbon Recipes Pinch It!™ Feed Browse All Recipes

Editorial

Food Bites & Articles Videos What is a Blue Ribbon? Meet the Test Kitchen

Community

Member Recipes Groups Sweepstakes Contests Shopping

cranberry cornish hens

lazyme5909 avatar
Recipe by
Vicki Butts (lazyme)
@lazyme5909
Grapeview, WA

From Kraft Foods, this sounds easy and good. Sounds like it would make a good 'small' Thanksgiving day dinner if you're not cooking a turkey.

yield 4 serving(s)
prep time 15 Min
cook time 8 Hr
method Slow Cooker Crock Pot

Ingredients For cranberry cornish hens

  • 2
    cornish hens
  • 1 1-oz pkg
    dried onion and mushroom soup mix
  • 2 16-oz can
    whole berry cranberry sauce, reserve 1/2 cup for later
  • 1
    green apple, cut into wedges
  • 1
    red apple, cut into wedges
  • 1 c
    fresh cranberries

How To Make cranberry cornish hens

  • 1
    Place Cornish hens in slow cooker.
  • 2
    Sprinkle onion and mushroom soup mix over all.
  • 3
    Spoon whole-berry cranberry sauce over hens, placing 1/2 cup of reserved berry sauce in refrigerator for later use.
  • 4
    Cook on Low for 8 hours.
  • 5
    Remove hens from slow cooker and spoon on reserved cranberry sauce.
  • 6
    Surround hens with green and red apple wedges, then sprinkle fresh cranberries around apple wedges.
  • Last Step: Don't forget to share! Make all your friends drool by posting a picture of your finished recipe on your favorite social network. And don't forget to tag Just A Pinch and include #justapinchrecipes so we can see it too!

Categories & Tags for Cranberry Cornish Hens:

ADVERTISEMENT