Pollo alla Cacciatora

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