Chicken Cacciatore Recipe - Cooking Index
Cacciatore means "hunter" in Italian. And what could taste better after a day's hunt than fresh chicken prepared with Italy's native tomatoes, olive oil, onion, garlic, and wine. For starters, serve an antipasto salad, followed by Chicken Cacciatore with pasta and shredded Parmesan cheese. Round out the meal with garlic bread and spumoni.
Type: Chicken, Poultry1 | Chicken - (abt 3 lbs) - cut up | |
3 tablespoons | 45ml | All-purpose flour |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Salt |
1/8 teaspoon | 0.6ml | Freshly-ground black pepper |
2 tablespoons | 30ml | Vegetable or olive oil |
1/4 cup | 15g / 0.5oz | Diced salt pork |
1 1/2 cups | 93g / 3.3oz | Sliced onions |
2 | Garlic cloves - minced | |
2 tablespoons | 30ml | Minced parsley |
1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Chopped fresh oregano |
= (or 1 tspn dry oregano) | ||
1/2 cup | 55g / 1.9oz | Chopped carrots |
1/2 cup | 55g / 1.9oz | Chopped celery |
1 | Italian tomatoes - (1 lb) - chopped | |
Salt - to taste | ||
Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste | ||
1/2 cup | 118ml | White wine |
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1 | Tomato paste - (6 oz) |
Coat chicken in mixture of flour, salt, and pepper; set aside.
Put oil in a 4- or 6-quart pressure cooker. Saute pork until crisp. Add onions and saute until light brown; remove and set aside.
Brown chicken a few pieces at a time; set aside.
Pour off excess drippings; stir garlic, parsley, and oregano into remaining drippings. Return chicken and onion to pressure cooker. Add carrots, celery, tomatoes, salt, pepper, and white wine.
Close pressure cooker cover securely. Place pressure regulator on vent pipe. Cook for 8 minutes, at 15 pounds pressure, with regulator rocking slowly. Cool pressure cooker at once. Place chicken on warm platter.
Stir tomato paste into sauce in pressure cooker. Simmer until thickened. Pour over chicken.
This recipe yields 4 to 6 servings.
Source:
National Presto Industries at http://www.presto-net.com
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