Recipe for Chicken Cacciatore

Cooking duration: 50 minutes Introduction: This is a tasty Italian dish suitable for the whole family. Most of the time it is prepared in a tomato based sauce and contains mushrooms also. Cacciatore is an Italian name meaning hunter. The story behind the name is that, when hunters in Italy came from home hungry, their wives could kill a chicken and prepare cacciatore for them. Ingredients Chicken thighs Chicken breasts Salt Freshly ground pepper Flour- for dredging purposes Olive oil Chopped red bell pepper Chopped onion Finely chopped garlic cloves Dry white wine A can of diced tomatoes with juice Sodium chicken broth Drained capers Dried oregano leaves Coarsely chopped fresh basil leaves. Procedure: 1. Put the chicken pieces in a tray 2. Sprinkle each and every piece with salt and pepper 3. Using the wheat flour, dredge the pieces of chicken in order to have a light coating 4. Place a large cooking pan on the source of heat 5. Put oil and heat using a moderate flame 6. Add the chicken pieces to the frying pan 7. Fry the chicken pieces quickly until they become brown. This can take about five minutes per side to become brown 8. If the pieces of chicken do not fit into the frying pan, you can fry them in two batches 9. Transfer the chicken pieces to a plate and set the plate aside 10. Add garlic, onion and pepper to the same pan 11. Fry the onions until they become tender 12. Use salt and pepper to season 13. Add wine to the onions in the frying pan 14. Simmer until the volume of onions have reduced by half- this might take about 5 minutes 15. Add the tomato and the juice, the broth, oregano and the capers 16. Return the pieces you had placed aside to the frying pan 17. Turn them all over the formed source in the pan for them to form a sauce coating 18. Simmer the sauce under low levels of heat until the chicken pieces get well cooked(The breasts take around 30mintes while the thighs take about 20 minutes) 19. Transfer the chicken to a platter using a pair of tongs 20. Boil the sauce until it thickens if you view that to be necessary 21. Remove any form of excess fats from the sauce 22. Smear the sauce all over the chicken pieces 23. Sprinkle the chicken pieces with basil 24. Serve the dish for the people to enjoy. Note: you can serve cacciatore chicken with pasta, roasted potatoes, rice. Whatever you like