Pollo alla Cacciatora

Name: Pollo alla Cacciatora (Chicken Cacciatora)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 15 ml/1 tbsp chopped fresh flat leaf parsley; sea salt and ground black pepper; 750 ml/1 ¼ pints/3 cups chicken stock; 175 ml/6 fl oz/¾ cup dry white wine; 450 g/1 lb tomatoes, or 600 g/1 lb 6 oz canned; 1 bay leaf; 5 juniper berries; 1 small carrot, chopped; 1 celery stick, chopped; 50 g/2 oz dried porcini mushrooms, soaked in hot water for about 20 minutes; 90 ml/6 tbsp olive oil; 1 onion, chopped; 1.2 kg/2 ½ lb chicken joints; 1 garlic clove, chopped

Chicken Cacciatora

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Italian Regional Cookbook

By Valentina Harris

Published 2017

About

Chicken cooked with tomatoes is a real classic among the best-loved Italian dishes. There are dozens of versions of the recipe for ‘hunter’s chicken’, but this is the original one from Campania, flavoured with porcini mushrooms, wine and juniper berries. The variations on the basic recipe are very wide indeed. For some cooks this dish is just a plain chicken stewed in tomatoes with a little wine; others add olives or prawns, and some use completely different ingredients altogether. Try out