Italian
Chicken Cacciatore
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Chicken Cacciatore is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pat the chicken thighs dry and season them with salt.
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Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high and brown the thighs skin-side down until golden, about 5 minutes per side, then remove.
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Add the sliced peppers, mushrooms, and onion and cook until softened, about 8 minutes.
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Stir in the garlic, oregano, and rosemary for 1 minute.
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Pour in the crushed tomatoes and chicken broth, add the bay leaf, and nestle the chicken back in.
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Cover and simmer until the chicken is tender and cooked through, about 35 minutes.
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Discard the bay leaf and serve the braise hot.
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Serve it with
A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Cacciatore, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Chicken Cacciatore carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 420 kcal
- Protein
- 38 g
- Carbs
- 14 g
- Fat
- 24 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 8 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 6 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken Cacciatore takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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