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Chicken Cacciatore

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, Poultry
Courses: Main Course
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

1   Chicken - (abt 3 lbs) - cut up
3 tablespoons 45mlAll-purpose flour
1 teaspoon 5mlSalt
1/8 teaspoon 0.6mlFreshly-ground black pepper
2 tablespoons 30mlVegetable or olive oil
1/4 cup 15g / 0.5ozDiced salt pork
1 1/2 cups 93g / 3.3ozSliced onions
2   Garlic cloves - minced
2 tablespoons 30mlMinced parsley
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlChopped fresh oregano
  = (or 1 tspn dry oregano)
1/2 cup 55g / 1.9ozChopped carrots
1/2 cup 55g / 1.9ozChopped celery
1   Italian tomatoes - (1 lb) - chopped
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
1/2 cup 118mlWhite wine
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1   Tomato paste - (6 oz)

Recipe Instructions

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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