Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

4 Poussins (baby chickens) OR
-Cornish game hens
1/2 c Fresh lime juice
1/3 c Golden tequila
1/4 c Olive oil
2 tb Cointreau
2 Garlic cloves; peel/mince
Salt and pepper

Remove backbones from chickens. Flatten chickens with palm of hand.

In large bowl, combine lime juice, tequila, olive oil, Cointreau and
garlic. Add chickens and turn to coat. Cover and marinate, turning
once or twice, up to 2 hours at room temperature or overnight in
refrigerator. Return to room temperature before cooking.

Remove chickens from marinade and arrange, skin-side up, in shallow
baking pan. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Bake at 400 degrees on upper rack of oven, basting occasionally with
marinade, until skin is golden and juices from thighs, pierced at
their thickest part, run pinkish-yellow, 25 to 30 minutes.

Source: Chicago Sun Times, January 19, 1989

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