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Chicken Cacciatore

Chicken Cacciatore

Chicken Cacciatore

Don’t you just love dishes that pretty much cook for themselves and all you have to do is toss (or nicely arrange) the ingredients together and your job is complete? I do. Especially when I am crazy busy and every minute counts and is precious. This recipe is just right when you are pressed for time.

Cacciatore is an Italian dish and it means “hunter-style,” and as most hunter style dishes, it doesn’t require much preparation or any lengthy steps to put it together. In cacciatore, chicken is arranged on a baking casserole, surrounded by chunks of juicy tomato. Onion, rosemary, bay leaves, butter, and a good doze of olive oil on top, and the dish goes in the oven. Out of the oven and the chicken is golden, the juices have blended together, and you are ready to eat hunter style. Which I love. I also like soaking up the juices from the pan with chunks of freshly baked crusty bread. I wonder if hunters do that, too. Molto delizioso!

Chicken Cacciatore

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