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Chicken Cacciatore (Pollo alla Cacciatora)

Chicken Cacciatore (Pollo alla Cacciatora) is Hunter’s chicken stew, rustic Italian classic with chicken thighs and drumsticks, mushrooms, and olives simmered in red wine to get rustic sauce served with your favorite pasta! Authentic stovetop version.

Course dinner, lunch
Cuisine Italian
Keyword Chicken Cacciatore (Pollo alla Cacciatora)
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 4
Author 2pots2cook

Ingredients

  • 2 Tbsp butter
  • 4 chicken thighs
  • 4 chicken drumsticks
  • Salt to taste
  • Smoked bacon, sliced and chopped to taste
  • 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 3 spring onions, finely chopped
  • 3 Tbsp tomato salsa
  • 1 small peperoncino
  • ½ bouillon cube
  • ½ cup dry red wine
  • 1 cup button mushrooms, whole (canned)
  • 12 olives
  • Pinch of rosemary and oregano
  • ½ cup water
  • Pinch of sugar
  • freshly ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Salt the meat to taste.

  2. In medium sized skillet, fry chicken in butter until it turns golden on all sides. It should take 10 minutes.

  3. Add bacon, garlic and spring onions and fry for 3 minutes.

  4. Add wine, bouillon cube, water, tomato salsa and sugar and let it boil slowly for 15 minutes.

  5. Add peperoncino, oregano, rosemary, mushrooms and olives and boil for another 5 minutes.

  6. Serve garnished with pasta or gnocchi.