Chicken Cacciatore

12 ingredients
11 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 frying chickens, cut in serving pieces (leave out backs and necks)
  • 1 c. flour
  • 1/4 c. olive oil
  • 3 or 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 medium onions, chopped
  • 2 small cans mushrooms or 1/2 lb. fresh, sliced
  • 1 c. dry white wine
  • 4 c. tomato sauce or tomato puree or crushed Italian tomatoes
  • dried oregano to taste
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/2 c. dried oil cured black olives, pitted (you remove the pits)
  • 1/4 c. fresh Italian parsley, minced

Directions

  1. 1
    Rinse chickens and pat dry with paper towels.
  2. 2
    Sprinkle flour lightly over both sides of pieces and salt and pepper to taste. Heat olive oil in nonstick skillet and fry chicken until golden on all sides.
  3. 3
    Remove chicken as you fry it and put into oven-proof casserole or baking pan.
  4. 4
    In same skillet, add onions and garlic to the olive oil and fry until golden.
  5. 5
    Add mushrooms (drained, if using canned), then add tomato sauce and white wine.
  6. 6
    Add more salt and pepper to taste, oregano and parsley, also.
  7. 7
    Cook over medium heat until well blended, about 20 minutes.
  8. 8
    Add olives.
  9. 9
    Pour sauce over chicken.
  10. 10
    Cover and bake at 350° for 1 hour.
  11. 11
    Good served with Risotto.

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