Barbecued Game Hen

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 3 servings
  • Total: 1 hr 13 min
  • Prep: 5 min
  • Inactive: 8 min
  • Cook: 1 hr
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Ingredients

1 onion, diced

1 bottle apple cider vinegar

Barbecue sauce

3 Rock Cornish game hens

Olive oil

Barbecue dry rub

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

3 aluminum cans

Directions

  1. Combine onion, apple cider vinegar, and barbecue sauce. Set aside.
  2. Coat hens with oil, dry rub, salt, and pepper. Refrigerate overnight.
  3. Cut aluminum cans in half. Fill cans with onion, vinegar, and barbecue sauce mixture. Place the cans on a hot grill, and set the hens on top of the cans. Grill for approximately 1 hour.
  4. Brush lightly with barbecue sauce after 1 hour of cooking.

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Jackie K.

My family loved this recipe!! It was so easy and quick. The only problem I had was that one of the birds tipped over in the BBQ and stuck to the grill, but was still tasty. Very tender and juicy. We'll have it again.

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