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The ingredients needed to cook Chicken Cacciatore:
- Get chicken thighs (boned and skinned)
- Provide chicken legs (skinned)
- Take plum tomatoes chopped (400g / 14oz. each) and their juice
- Prepare onion (sliced) / 7 oz.
- Get button mushrooms (halved) / 6 oz.
- Prepare red peppers (sliced) / 3½ oz.
- Take peppers green (sliced) / 3½ oz.
- Use dry white wine / 2½ fl. oz.
- You need oregano dried
- Use thyme dried
- Use garlic powder
- Prepare cornstarch cornflour /
- Provide black pepper ground
- Prepare onion / 3½ oz.
- Prepare carrot / 2 oz.
- Use celery / 2 oz.
- Provide “Spray2Cook” (a word used to describe any low-cal. non-stick cook’s oil spray)
Steps to make Chicken Cacciatore:
- Spray the chicken with Spray2Cook and then season with the pepper. Fry off the chicken pieces in a hot fry pan sprayed with Spray2Cook until browned all over.
- Transfer to a slow cooker set to hot or a large lidded fry-pan on medium heat. Smother with the mushrooms.
- Microwave the onion and peppers for 2 minutes and transfer to the first fry pan re-sprayed with Spray2Cook.
- Add the tomatoes and the herbs. Cook for 2 minutes before pouring over the chicken and mushrooms.
- Deglaze the fry pan with the wine / canned mushroom liquor and add to the cooking vessel.
- Blend the cornstarch with a little water (adding slowly) and then add the blended cornstarch to as the cacciatore just starts to bubble.
- Allow it re-boil before turning to a gentle simmer to cook for 4 hours.
- Near the end of the cooking time take six tablespoons of the liquor from the pot and add to the sofritto vegetables. Microwave for 4 minutes, stir then microwave for another 4 minutes after adding more liquor if needed. Blend the sofritto in a hand blender and add to the cacciatore. (Picture taken before the addition of the sofritto).
- Serve with pasta (add the calories!).
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