Chicken Cacciatore
Chicken Cacciatore

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Chicken cacciatore, an Italian hunter-style chicken braised in a tomato-based sauce with onions, garlic, and white wine. Today I would like to share with you my Chicken Cacciatore Recipe. Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis.

Chicken Cacciatore is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Cacciatore is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken cacciatore using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Cacciatore:
  1. Prepare 4 chicken thighs (boned and skinned)
  2. Make ready 4 chicken legs (skinned)
  3. Make ready 1 can plum tomatoes chopped (400g / 14oz. each) and their juice
  4. Get 200 g onion (sliced) / 7 oz.
  5. Prepare 175 g button mushrooms (halved) / 6 oz.
  6. Make ready 100 g red peppers (sliced) / 3½ oz.
  7. Get 100 g peppers green (sliced) / 3½ oz.
  8. Make ready 75 ml dry white wine / 2½ fl. oz.
  9. Make ready 1 teaspoon oregano dried
  10. Take 1 teaspoon thyme dried
  11. Prepare 2 teaspoons garlic powder
  12. Get 1 tablespoon cornstarch cornflour /
  13. Take ½ teaspoon black pepper ground
  14. Take 100 g onion / 3½ oz.
  15. Take 50 g carrot / 2 oz.
  16. Prepare 50 g celery / 2 oz.
  17. Make ready “Spray2Cook” (a word used to describe any low-cal. non-stick cook’s oil spray)

Your family will love this classic chicken recipe! Cacciatore means "hunter" in Italian, so the dish is a rustic, "hunter-style" mix of chicken, earthy mushrooms, sweet bell peppers, tomatoes, and fresh herbs. This classic Italian dish must have hundreds of versions, all resulting in a rustic braise of chicken, aromatic vegetables and tomatoes. Chicken cacciatore in its most conventional form, uses the dark meat of the chicken, which is Chicken cacciatore lends itself particularly well to being prepared in a crock-pot or slow cooker.

Instructions to make Chicken Cacciatore:
  1. 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.
  2. Transfer to a slow cooker set to hot or a large lidded fry-pan on medium heat. Smother with the mushrooms.
  3. Microwave the onion and peppers for 2 minutes and transfer to the first fry pan re-sprayed with Spray2Cook.
  4. Add the tomatoes and the herbs. Cook for 2 minutes before pouring over the chicken and mushrooms.
  5. Deglaze the fry pan with the wine / canned mushroom liquor and add to the cooking vessel.
  6. Blend the cornstarch with a little water (adding slowly) and then add the blended cornstarch to as the cacciatore just starts to bubble.
  7. Allow it re-boil before turning to a gentle simmer to cook for 4 hours.
  8. 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).
  9. Serve with pasta (add the calories!).

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. Here's what you need: chicken thighs, olive oil, mushroom, medium onion, red bell pepper, tomato paste, garlic, dried oregano Chicken Cacciatore. featured in Red Sauce Recipes. Chicken cacciatore is basically a braised chicken dish in which seared chicken is simmered gently in a sauce (either stove-top or in the oven). Chicken Cacciatore generally involves browning chicken pieces in a pot over high heat, then sauteing a mix of vegetables—onions, peppers Chicken Cacciatore! But we're not quite ready to serve yet.

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