Cabot Cape Breton’s Cornish hen is a decadent delight

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For those who’re on the lookout for a festive different to a conventional turkey or ham this vacation season, contemplate the Cornish hen.

Smaller, much less cumbersome and simpler to cook dinner than its bigger feathered brethren, a single Cornish hen can feed two folks — and add a dose of magnificence to the plate, too.

Simply ask Malcolm Campbell, who has presided over the menu on the picturesque Cabot Cape Breton resort because the Panorama Restaurant’s govt chef for the previous 5 years.

Friends at Cabot Cape Breton, which is stunningly located on Nova Scotia’s rugged Atlantic shoreline and was lately honored as considered one of GOLF’s Prime 100 Resorts, are likely to gravitate towards steak or seafood. However a style of Campbell’s Cornish hen could change their minds.

Campbell serves his iteration with creamed polenta (included for its skill to carry and retain the dish’s many flavors), grilled broccolini and radicchio and a caper albufera sauce, which is enriched with a mixture of foie gras, rooster inventory and a little bit cream and butter. The hen’s legs are confit in duck fats, glazed with house-made piri piri sauce after which barbecued to order.

Although the substances and prep could sound unique, there’s a comfort-food high quality to the Cornish hen that Campbell loves — and a contact of the sudden from the piri piri, which features a mix of shishito, poblano and chicken’s eye peppers.

“That sauce preparation actually helps elevate the dish a little bit bit extra,” Campbell says.

So, the following time you end up eating cliffside at Cabot, give the seafood a break and the common-or-garden hen a strive. With Campbell on the helm, you gained’t be dissatisfied.

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