Categories: Chicken, Main Dish, Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 2 Cornish hens
• 2 tablespoons garlic oil or 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 sweet potato (1 lb.)
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• watercress (1-2 bunches)
• kosher salt
• lime juice (a good squirt)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 425°; place the birds in a small baking pan or foil pan; pouring over 1 tablespoon of oil.

2. Cut the unpeeled sweet potato into 2 ½ inch cubes and put them into another smallish pan or foil pan.

3. Pour over the other tablespoon of oil and sprinkle over the spices, then toss everything together by shaking the pan.

4. Cook both the hens and sweet potatoes in the preheated oven for 45 minutes.

5. Put each Cornish hen on a plate, with a tangle of water cress and the sweet potatoes alongside.

6. Sprinkle with kosher salt to taste and spritz with lime juice.

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