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chicken cacciatore

chicken cacciatore

3 4.6
An Italian chicken dish cooked in tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɪkɪn ˌkɑːtʃəˈtɔːreɪ/
: pollo a la cacciatora
  • She taught me how to make chicken cacciatore with fresh tomatoes and herbs.

Examples

  • And the whole time he's talking, he's eating chicken cacciatore with a lot of sauce with his hands, what with his hands?

  • Tonight we have filet mignon, veal parmesan, baked Alaska, chicken cacciatore, and mac and cheese.

  • We're having chicken cacciatore tonight.

  • - Chicken cacciatore's pretty good.

  • - Chicken cacciatore.

  • - I have to say, Rocco... ...this is the best chicken cacciatore I've ever tasted.

  • - One chicken cacciatore, two hamburgers, one fettuccine and a Saltimbocca?

  • For example, reading the recipe for chicken cacciatore, I realized that I needed to slice a half-pound of mushrooms.

    Academic text (1997)
  • - If any of you could tell me where I could find Richie Corbucci, I just might let you go back to finishing your overpriced chicken cacciatore.

  • As he expected, the entrees are out of style: chicken cacciatore with "savory herb blends from Italy" and spiced baked ham with pineapple rings.

    Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

cacciatore
vschicken cacciatore
5 6.5

A cooked meat dish from Italy with tomatoes, onions, herbs, and sometimes wine

is the specific poultry casserole focusing on tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs
chicken cacciatora
vschicken cacciatore
1 7.0

An Italian chicken dish cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs

is the same dish but a different written form of the name
hunter's chicken
vschicken cacciatore
  • UK
6.1

A chicken dish cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs in an Italian style

is the standard name for that traditional recipe rather than a variant

How Saucy

chicken cacciatore
3 4.6
chicken stew
2 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

chicken + cacciatore

The phrase denotes chicken prepared in the 'cacciatore' style; if a learner knows 'chicken' and 'cacciatore' (an Italian braised meat dish with tomatoes), the combined meaning is directly compositional and predictable. This is a descriptive culinary noun phrase similar to 'chicken stew' or 'beef bourguignon', so a B1 learner who knows the parts will understand it.

Etymology

Chicken cacciatore comes from Italian: cacciatore means 'hunter'. One popular story says hunters would cook a simple chicken with tomatoes, mushrooms and herbs in one pan after a day out, so the name came to mean 'hunter-style' and now refers to this rustic tomato-and-herb chicken dish.