Easy Chicken Cacciatore Recipe with Spaghetti Sauce

The chicken Cacciatore Recipe is made with the addition of a special sauce called spaghetti sauce. The making of chicken involves a number of steps and no one can deny the fact that all these steps are so worth it in the form of a perfect flavor and the chicken turns out to be outclassed to serve at formal and informal dinners.

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Chicken Cacciatore is famous in Italian cuisine as it is a classy dish to be present at every serving table. Italian cuisine is already full of yummy dishes and recipes and how one can ever get over such a blissful cuisine?

You can make this with or without the spaghetti sauce as all the choice is yours but you should be careful in making all the decisions.

Marinating the chicken

The chicken is first marinated with all the essential dry seasonings. You can also use the wet batter to coat it but the actual recipe involves just sprinkling the powders.

After this sprinkling of the seasonings, you must coat the chicken with dry flour. This flour is the best way to make the chicken crispy in every bite.

Frying of Chicken

The chicken is fried in the pot in heated oil. You can either grill it or bake it but to get perfectly browned crispy chicken, you must fry it in oil.

Baking chicken makes it soft and juicy while frying this chicken in the oil makes it crunchy enough.

Addition of Spaghetti sauce

You can either add the spaghetti sauce to your chicken gravy. This sauce makes the dish 10 times more delicious. But you can also add other sausages and seasonings like a marinara sauce. The chili sauce can be added to make it spicier or a garlic sauce for a lovely garlicky flavor.

Serving the Cacciatore Chicken

The cheese-topped Cacciatore chicken is served either individually or is best served with your favorite green salads.

You can serve it over boiled rice or over brown rice. Serving the Cacciatore chicken with bread is a trend now and you cannot get over this dish any time soon as it was so addictive and luscious.

INGREDIENTS

Fresh basil for garnishing
2 cloves minced garlic
1/4 cup olive oil
Kosher salt to taste
Black Pepper to taste
1 sliced onion
1 qt marinara sauce or spaghetti sauce
1/2 cup flour for dredging
6 chicken thighs
1-2 large red bell peppers chopped
1/2 cup mozzarella cheese

Method to make the Chicken Cacciatore Recipe with Spaghetti sauce

Bring the chicken for seasoning. Also, bring the seasonings including salt and pepper at the same time.
Shower these seasonings at the top of the chicken and then move forward to the next step.
Sift flour in a large-sized bowl and then coat this dry seasoned chicken in this flour. Bring the chicken thighs one by one and then coat them.
Now take a medium-sized skillet and pour oil into this skillet for heating it.
Put the coated chicken thighs in the oil one by one and let them sear in the heated oil for some time.
Each side will take up to 4-6 minutes for the color will also be changed to the brown fried color. Now that your chicken is cooked enough, put it aside in a bowl.
Bring the ingredients to fry them up in the heated oil. First of all, put the diced peppers into the heated oil and combine the diced onions with them at the same time.
Minced garlic should be added to this mixture at this point. Fry them until these are softened and then you must pour the spaghetti sauce into your pot.
Stir the sauce well with the onion-garlic mixture. Bring the cooked chicken and add it to the cooked and simmered sauce.
Let cook at lowered heat for half an hour. The chicken will absorb all the flavors from the sauce and will get juicy and soft.
Bring your shredded cheese and spread it all over the chicken while you transfer this chicken to the serving plate.
Serve the chicken after pairing it with some amazing main dishes.

Conclusion

Making the Cacciatore chicken in your chicken will save both your time and money and you can prepare it in clean hygienic conditions with your own hands.

Getting an expert in such recipes with amazing outcomes is a huge achievement and everyone should own it. I have been the favorite cook of my family since the day they tried this Cacciatore chicken made by me.

This chicken will get an absolute favorite of everyone in the foodie family if made right with all the right steps and if you have followed every instruction and added the proper quantities of every ingredient.

FAQs?

Can we bake the flour Coated chicken?

Yes, sure you can bake this flour-coated chicken which was already marinated with salt and pepper. The only drawback the baking has is that it does not make the chicken crispy while when you fry the chicken it gets crispy and a little bit crunchy layer is made.

What can we use to garnish the chicken?

You can spread your shredded cheese on top of the chicken before serving. Moreover diced green onions and crushed herbs can be sprinkled on top of the cooked chicken.

Do we add some additional sauce to the chicken?

Yes, sure you can add the additional marinara sauce to the chicken. Soy sauce or tomato sauce will also be the best choice. All these sauces help to make the chicken delicious and yummy.

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