{"id":18311,"date":"2018-01-12T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=18311"},"modified":"2018-08-01T10:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T02:05:04","slug":"chicken-cacciatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2018\/01\/chicken-cacciatore\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat at Chez PB: Super easy and delicious Chicken Cacciatore"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first tried Chicken Cacciatore many years ago, as a student. It was one of the first Italian dishes my Dad really enjoyed eating (he was less adventurous back in the day, thinking Italian food meant lots of cheese LOL!) and I’ve always looked for it on the menu at Italian restaurants. Unfortunately, it is not something easily found here.<\/p>\n

One day, I told myself that if I wanted to eat it, I jolly well had to learn to cook it myself! So I did!<\/p>\n

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I looked around for a recipe, and there are a million and one on the internet. But I picked the one from Serious Eats<\/a>, because it looked the easiest, with the fewest ingredients. I have since cooked this many times, with great success every time, and it’s now my signature dish! \ud83d\ude00 If you ever eat at Chez PB, odds are I’ll pull this trick out of my culinary repertoire LOL \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

I hosted a New Year lunch with my friends this year, and instead of ordering in fast food, as we have been doing for the past 7 years, I decided to cook my Chicken Cacciatore dish. It turned into a mini pot luck, and was a lot of fun, and I might even say, delicious! \ud83d\ude00 So, let me share it with you.<\/p>\n

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Chicken Cacciatore is a rustic Italian dish, loosely translated as Hunter’s Chicken, as it would be something you’d cook out on a hunt or in the wild. It is slow-cooked with bone-in chicken pieces, in a tomato sauce, and it is the slow-cooking that brings out the flavour and helps meld all the different flavours.<\/p>\n

As I said, I picked this recipe, because it called for the fewest ingredients. But I’ve since learned that I can easily jazz it up or bulk it up.<\/p>\n

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Cooking this for a pot-luck is perfect, because you can cook it the day before, and just heat it up on the day you are serving it. It even tastes better the next day, as the flavours really blend and infuse into the chicken.<\/p>\n

I also like to add some extra vegetables like courgettes (zucchini) or carrots just before serving, for an extra serving of vege. Use hard vegetables, as leafy vegetables will not be as tasty. Adding them just before serving, instead of during cooking, will ensure that your vegetables do not become too soft.<\/p>\n

Serve with pasta or potatoes or just with some crusty bread. It keeps well too. I usually cook up a large pot, then freeze them into individual portions. It makes for a quick, hearty, delicious meal on days when you don’t feel like cooking \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here’s my recipe for Chicken Cacciatore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Chicken Cacciatore<\/div>\n\t\t
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15<\/span> mins<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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55<\/span> mins<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This is a very easy chicken dish that uses few ingredients but packs maximum flavour! It is a personal favourite!<\/p>\t<\/div>\n\t

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\n\t\t\t\tCuisine:<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tItalian\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tKeyword:<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tchicken, chicken cacciatore\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tServings<\/span>: 6<\/span> people<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tAuthor<\/span>: Paris B<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t
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