Chicken cacciatore make it simple and you will love it. Although the original recipe is with red wine and tomato sauce as written by Artusi , i prefer it with white wine and no tomatoes. In any case if you like you can add some tomato sauce towards the end. The name of the recipe is due to cooking the chicken like you do for game as a hunter would do as cacciatore means hunter. As a matter of fact i used to cook hare that way that I could find in Florence at San Lorenzo market. 

     

chicken cacciatore

Although other sites suggest a short cooking time for the recipe, i recommend a long cooking of about one hour. The meat that way will be tender and come off the bones very easily. You don’t have to stand at the stove, just keep it cooking with a lid on top.

I prefer this recipe to the one i listed the other day.

 

 

Ingredients

One chicken, but remember this way you can prepare also rabbit hare and generally game, two small onions, two cloves garlic, half a glass of white wine, two tablespoons olive oil, one bay leaf, chopped rosemary, a hand full of pitted green olives, pepper, chili pepper, salt

Especially for game i add one or two JUNIPER BERRIESItalian Cooking Image  

 

 

Recipe

Cut the chicken in pieces and keep it for at least a half an hour covered with the oil and the spices.

Than add the wine and cook for one hour covered by a lid at medium low heat. If the sauce looks to liquid cook it for a while without lid. After 50 minutes add the chopped olives and cook for more ten minutes.

Tommaso

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