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Chicken cacciatore, an Italian hunter-style chicken braised in a tomato-based sauce with onions, garlic, and white wine. Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis. With a combination of bold tomato sauce and luscious porcini mushrooms. Chicken cacciatore is a classic Mediterranean chicken dish from Italy.
Chicken Cacciatore is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Chicken Cacciatore is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken cacciatore using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Cacciatore:
- Prepare 4 chicken thighs (boned and skinned)
- Prepare 4 chicken legs (skinned)
- Prepare 1 can plum tomatoes chopped (400g / 14oz. each) and their juice
- Get 200 g onion (sliced) / 7 oz.
- Prepare 175 g button mushrooms (halved) / 6 oz.
- Get 100 g red peppers (sliced) / 3½ oz.
- Prepare 100 g peppers green (sliced) / 3½ oz.
- Make ready 75 ml dry white wine / 2½ fl. oz.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon oregano dried
- Take 1 teaspoon thyme dried
- Make ready 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- Get 1 tablespoon cornstarch cornflour /
- Take ½ teaspoon black pepper ground
- Make ready 100 g onion / 3½ oz.
- Take 50 g carrot / 2 oz.
- Take 50 g celery / 2 oz.
- Prepare “Spray2Cook” (a word used to describe any low-cal. non-stick cook’s oil spray)
This Chicken Cacciatore, or Hunter-style chicken, is a delicious and healthy one-pot meal, with golden braised chicken thighs, mushrooms, sweet bell peppers, tomatoes, and green olives. The word cacciatore means "hunter" in Italian, which refers to a dish being prepared in a hunter style. Hunter style dishes typically contain onions, herbs, bell peppers. This Chicken Cacciatore is a rustic, hearty chicken dish, a classic Italian comfort food made easy.
Steps to make Chicken Cacciatore:
- Spray the chicken with Spray2Cook and then season with the pepper. Fry off the chicken pieces in a hot fry pan sprayed with Spray2Cook until browned all over.
- Transfer to a slow cooker set to hot or a large lidded fry-pan on medium heat. Smother with the mushrooms.
- Microwave the onion and peppers for 2 minutes and transfer to the first fry pan re-sprayed with Spray2Cook.
- Add the tomatoes and the herbs. Cook for 2 minutes before pouring over the chicken and mushrooms.
- Deglaze the fry pan with the wine / canned mushroom liquor and add to the cooking vessel.
- Blend the cornstarch with a little water (adding slowly) and then add the blended cornstarch to as the cacciatore just starts to bubble.
- Allow it re-boil before turning to a gentle simmer to cook for 4 hours.
- Near the end of the cooking time take six tablespoons of the liquor from the pot and add to the sofritto vegetables. Microwave for 4 minutes, stir then microwave for another 4 minutes after adding more liquor if needed. Blend the sofritto in a hand blender and add to the cacciatore. (Picture taken before the addition of the sofritto).
- Serve with pasta (add the calories!).
Hunter style dishes typically contain onions, herbs, bell peppers. This Chicken Cacciatore is a rustic, hearty chicken dish, a classic Italian comfort food made easy. It's bursting with bright colors and fresh flavor. This family friendly Italian classic dish Chicken Cacciatore is made in the slow cooker for a Cacciatore means "hunter" in Italian. Often the chicken is dusted with flour and fried in oil before.
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