How To Cook Cornish Hens On A Big Green Egg

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How to cook cornish hens on a big green egg. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. If you dont have grillgrates you can use your plate setter for indirect cooking. And when the temp was reached i placed a little apple wood on the hot colds and place my chicken on top of the grill on the grillgrates for some indirect cooking. Set on a plate or platter.

Rub the paste under and over the skin of the hens preheat the bge to 4000 glaze the hens with some of the hoisin sauce place the hens on a raised grid and cook direct over the coals for 40 minutes or until they reach 1650. Build a big fire full fire box of charcoal then i put the plate setter on feet up with a drip tray under the grid and i put the bird on at 400f. I have also done this direct but i put the birds on my raised grid to get them higher in the dome and away from the direct heat of the coals. Step 2 rub each hen with a lime half.

I pre heated my big green egg bbq to 350 degree f. Next up get your egg set up. Smoked cornish game hens cornish game hens or rock cornish hens as theyre sometimes called are young usually less than 5 weeks old chickens. They cost a little more than regular chicken per pound but at a 2lb average youre still only paying around 3 4 bucks per bird.

While the egg is heating take the cornish hens out of the package rinse with cold water and pat dry. Take 4 springs of thyme and put 2 of each in the cavity of the hen along with 1 rosemary sprig and 1 clove of garlic. Set the egg for direct cooking at 600of316oc.