My fiancé’s preferred slow-cooker dish is this Cornish hen. Typically, I serve it over wild rice with vegetables. By slicing the cooked hens in half lengthwise after cooking, you can make this slow cooker meal for two into one for four.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 4 hrs |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 20 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
Ingredients
- 2 Cornish game hens
- 1 (10.75 ounce) can golden mushroom soup (such as Campbell’s®), divided
- 2 cups chopped baby portobello mushrooms
- 1 (7 ounce) jar pimento-stuffed green olives, drained and chopped
- 1 large zucchini, chopped
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
Instructions
- Coat the hens with about 1/4 of mushroom soup.
- Mix remaining mushroom soup with mushrooms, olives, zucchini, and garlic salt in a bowl. Stuff mixture inside the hens. Arrange hens, breast sides up, in the slow cooker. Spoon any remaining soup mixture over hens.
- Cook hens in the slow cooker on High for 4 hours.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 851 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 25 g |
| Cholesterol | 308 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Protein | 60 g |
| Saturated Fat | 14 g |
| Sodium | 4201 mg |
| Sugars | 6 g |
| Fat | 58 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Came out great. We enjoyed the meal. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Now it’ll be one of our favorites.
So easy. I did just as written. Maybe salt and pepper is a good idea. More zucchini would be good too. Quite tasty and fall-off-the-bone.
I didn’t have Golden Mushroom soup so used Cream of Mushroom Soup and it was delicious!!
I wasn’t a big fan of the olive / zucchini / mushroom mixture (which is odd because I love all of thode things otherwise), however the game hens were great.
I can’t believe this has 850 calories per serving! It tasted very low cal to me. My hen was a bit dry and overall the dish was bland, even with the wild rice. I doubt I will be making again.
If I do this recipe again, I would have to watch the slow cooker carefully and manually turn it off at the right time. Cooking too long dries the meat out and the birds fall apart so completely they are hard to separate from the bones and serve.
Made it according to recipe with minor adjustments- used less butter/margarine. Suggestions from others who made it were very helpful. I did place under broiler to get the skin crispy. Nice flavor, easy, will make again.
I couldn’t find hens so I used drumsticks. I accidentally forgot the garlic so I added it to my rice along with green onion. It wasn’t too salty (I feared it might be). I also cooked on low because I didn’t want it in 4 hours. Let me tell you….chicken fell off the bone (SUPER juicy) and it was DELICIOUS. Definitely adding this to my recipes!!!
Fall off the bone delicious. I’m not that big a fan of olives and plan to decrease the amount of them next time cooking this recipe.
Put the slow cooker pan under the oven broiler on low the last 15-20 minutes. No other changes. GR8 dish!
This is so good. The flavors work very well together. No substitutions here, I made it exactly as the recipe states. Super quick and easy, minimal ingredients. My new favorite crockpot recipe!
Because I love mushrooms and garlic, I added just a hair more than the recipe called for. Such a simple, yet genius, recipe.
This was delicious! I used low sodium green olives and substituted garlic cloves for the garlic salt because I don’t like to have overly salty food. Easy to prepare and clean up!
The first time I made this, I thought the olives made it a little too salty. The second time I made it, I substituted pesto for the olives. It had a very nice flavor to it.
Unusual tasting. Definitely an acquired taste…
It was delicious and falling off the bone. I made it with my special stuffing.
The sauce was delicious. My hubby is not a big fan of Cornish hen just because of the size. ,but agreed this is the best Cornish hen dish I have made to date. Will make this again and try with chicken breasts.
I made it for my Thanksgiving dinner for me and my wife it was so delicious. Yummy!
Super easy and tasted great.
No changes. Tried it tonight and it is my husband’s all-time favorite recipe. Many thanks….we can’t wait to have it again.
I changed all the ingredients… but great idea! I used a little vegetable broth and water in the bottom and added Italian seasoning, parsnips & dry lentils. Also put dry rice, right into the mix! (Just be sure to add the same amt of water to it as if you were cooking rice on the stove.)