Cacciatore Recipe

  Chicken

Ingredients:
3 tbsps oil
120g button mushrooms
1 x 1.4kg chicken skinned & cut into pieces
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
140ml vermouth
140ml chicken stock
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
460g canned tomatoes
1 tsp oregano
1 sprig fresh rosemary
salt & pepper
60g black olives, pitted
2 tbsps chopped fresh parsley

Directions:
1. heat oil in frying pan & cook mushrooms for 1-2 minutes. Remove them & set aside. Brown Chicken in the oil & then transfer the pieces to an ovenproof casserole.
2. chop onion & garlic finely. Pour off all but1 tsp of the oil in the frying pan & reheat the pan. cook the onion & garlic unitl softened but not coloured. add the vermouth & vinegar & boil to reduce by half. add the chicken stock, tomatoes, oregano, rosemary salt & pepper. break up tomatoes & bring the sauce to boil. allow to cook for 2 mins.
3. pour the sauce over the chicken in the casserole, cover & cook at 180C/350f/gas mark 4 for 1 hour.
4. add mushrooms & olives during the last 10 minutes of cooking.
5. remove rosemary before serving and sprinkle with the chopped parsley.

Cacciatore
 

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