Instructions: Place hens in large shallow bowl. In small bowl, combine lemon juice, oil, ginger, cumin, pepper, salt and paprika. Pour into and over Cornish hens. Cover and marinate in refrigerator 30 minutes or longer.

Preheat oven to 3500F. Stick cloves into onion halves. Place 2 onion halves and 1/4 squeezed lemon juice inside each hen. Tie legs together and fold back wings. Sprinkle with pepper and paprika. Roast about 60 minutes or until juices run clear with no trace of pink when thigh is pierced. Serve hens with vegetables and Curried Brown Rice Pilaf.

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