Chicken Cacciatore
Chicken Cacciatore

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken cacciatore. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Cacciatore is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Chicken Cacciatore is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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. Today I would like to share with you my Chicken Cacciatore Recipe.

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

Serve over angel hair pasta. 'Cacciatore' is Italian for. 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. This classic Italian dish must have hundreds of versions, all resulting in a rustic braise of chicken, aromatic vegetables and tomatoes.

Steps 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!).

In cuisine, alla cacciatora refers to a meal prepared "hunter-style" with onions, herbs, usually tomatoes, often bell peppers, and sometimes wine. Cacciatore is popularly made with braised chicken (pollo alla cacciatora) or rabbit (coniglio alla cacciatora). 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. 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. Chicken Cacciatore generally involves browning chicken pieces in a pot over high heat, then sauteing a mix of vegetables—onions, peppers Chicken Cacciatore!

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