Best Slow Cooked Chicken Cacciatore Recipes

SAVORY SLOW-COOKED CHICKEN CACCIATORE

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook for 10 minutes or until well browned on all sides. Stir the garlic, Italian seasoning, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, pepper and 1 cup broth in a 6-quart slow cooker. Add the chicken and turn to coat. Cover and cook on LOW for 7 to 8 hours or until the chicken is cooked through. Remove the chicken from the cooker, cover and keep warm. Stir the cornstarch and remaining broth in a small bowl until the mixture is smooth. Stir the cornstarch mixture in the cooker. Cover and cook on HIGH for 10 minutes or until the mixture boils and thickens. Serve with the chicken and pappardelle.

SLOW-COOKED CHICKEN CACCIATORE

Steps:

• Place flour in a large resealable plastic bag. Add chicken, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat. In a large skillet, brown chicken in oil on all sides. , Transfer to a 5-qt. slow cooker. Top with onions, green pepper and mushrooms. In a small bowl, combine the tomatoes, garlic, salt, oregano and basil; pour over vegetables. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until chicken juices run clear and vegetables are tender. Serve with cheese.

CHICKEN CACCIATORE - SLOW COOKED TO ITALIAN PERFECTION

Steps:

• Pour dressing into a zip-lock plastic bag; add chicken pieces and refrigerate for an hour.
• Heat olive oil in a large sauté pan.
• Mix the flour, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper together; lightly dredge chicken in the seasoned flour.
• Brown the chicken pieces on both sides and transfer to crock pot when done.
• Sauté onion until translucent in the olive oil used to brown the chicken; add wine and 2 tablespoons of the tomato paste to deglaze the pan. Transfer to crock pot.
• Stir together remaining 2 cans of tomato paste and all the ingredients EXCEPT for the bay leaf, olives, garbanzo beans, capers, and Parmesan cheese; spread over chicken in crock pot.
• Lay bay leaf on top of chicken; cover and cook on LOW for 7 to 9 hours (HIGH: 3 to 4 hours).
• During the last hour of cooking, add the olives, garbanzo beans and capers. If at this time the sauce appears too thin, add 1 or 2 tablespoons of tomato paste to thicken slightly.
• To serve, discard the bay leaf and arrange the chicken over your favorite hot pasta; ladle with sauce and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

SLOW-COOKED CHICKEN CACCIATORE RECIPE

Steps:

• Combine vegetables and garlic in slow cooker sprayed with cooking spray; top with chicken.
• Mix broth, dressing, tapioca and seasonings until blended; pour over chicken. Cover with lid.
• Cook on LOW 6 to 7 hours (or on HIGH 3 to 3-1/2 hours).
• Use tongs to remove chicken from slow cooker, reserving vegetable mixture in slow cooker. Add salsa and tomato paste to ingredients in slow cooker; mix well. Return chicken to slow cooker; spoon sauce over chicken. Cook, covered, on HIGH 15 min. or until heated through.