chicken cacciatora
- noun
- /ˈtʃɪkɪn kɑːtʃɪˈtɔːrə/
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pollo a la cacciatora
- Would you like some chicken cacciatora?
Examples
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I made chicken cacciatora for dinner.
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The restaurant's chicken cacciatora features tender meat and a rich tomato sauce.
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For dinner, we served chicken cacciatora with a side of crusty bread.
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She learned to make chicken cacciatora from an old family recipe passed down through generations.
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At the family gathering, we all enjoyed a delicious chicken cacciatora made with fresh tomatoes and herbs.
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My grandmother taught me how to prepare chicken cacciatora with mushrooms and savory spices.
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Every Sunday, we have chicken cacciatora for dinner, as it is a traditional Italian recipe in our family.
Synonyms
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6.5
A cooked meat dish from Italy with tomatoes, onions, herbs, and sometimes wine
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4.6
An Italian chicken dish cooked in tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs
A chicken dish cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs in an Italian style
How Saucy
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
chicken + cacciatora
This is a fixed culinary name containing a borrowed Italian element ('cacciatora') that has no transparent English meaning in the input; knowing 'chicken' alone does not allow a B1 learner to infer the specific cooking method or ingredients (tomatoes, mushrooms, herbs). The term is lexicalized as a dish name and its precise meaning is culture-specific rather than compositionally predictable from its parts, so it would be opaque to most learners.
Etymology
Chicken cacciatora comes from the Italian word cacciatora, which means 'hunter-style'. Hunters would cook birds or rabbits with tomatoes, mushrooms and herbs in one pot while they were out in the country, and that simple picture gave the name. That's why chicken cacciatora today means a chicken dish or casserole cooked in the 'hunter-style' with tomatoes and herbs.