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chicken cacciatore

chicken cacciatore

2 4.6
An Italian chicken dish cooked in tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɪkɪn ˌkɑːtʃəˈtɔːreɪ/
translation icon : 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
4 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
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
2 4.6
chicken stew
1 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.