What is Chicken Cacciatore?

Series Summary

Chicken cacciatore or alla cacciatora (in the manner of hunters)derives its name from Italian hunters who would cook their game in the field. Typically chicken cacciatore is cooked with tomato sauce, mushrooms, garlic, onions, and served with pasta. As you might expect from a hunter's meal, this dish is easy and quick to make, and is a delicious, healthy meal. If you would like to learn how to make chicken cacciatore, you can learn for free from our expert cook.

In this free online video series, learn how to make chicken cacciatore from expert cook Karl James. Karl will demonstrate how to cut and season the chicken; how to cut bell pepper, garlic, mushrooms, and tomatoes for chicken cacciatore; how to season flour for chicken cacciatore; how to brown the chicken for chicken cacciatore; how to sautee vegetables; and how to serve chicken cacciatore.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karl James owner of Creolesoul catering in Round Rock, Texas on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you a chunky chicken cacciatore. Chicken cacciatore, chicken cacciatore is a classic Italian dish cacciatore in Italian hunter and when using it in a cuisine you know hunter style so it is going to have tomatoes, mushrooms, and onions, and garlic, sometimes bell peppers and normally simmer with a wine or not. But being creole we have a similar dish because cacciatore is really similar to a lot French dishes and creole has the some thing where it is smothered chicken cacciatore and we would get started. "