hunter's chicken
- noun
- UK
:
pollo a la cazadora
- The restaurant's special tonight is hunter's chicken prepared with fresh herbs and tomatoes.
Examples
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The restaurant's special tonight is hunter's chicken served with crusty bread.
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She learned to make hunter's chicken after traveling through Italy last summer.
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A hearty hunter's chicken is perfect for a cozy family dinner.
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I love hunter's chicken for dinner.
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Have you ever tried hunter's chicken?
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A hearty hunter's chicken casserole is perfect for a cozy family dinner.
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After her trip to Italy, she often cooks hunter's chicken with mushrooms and spices.
Synonyms
4
6.5
A cooked meat dish from Italy with tomatoes, onions, herbs, and sometimes wine
2
4.6
An Italian chicken dish cooked in tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs
2
1.6
A baked dish of chicken and vegetables cooked together in the oven
An Italian chicken dish cooked with tomatoes, mushrooms, and herbs
A dish of chicken cooked with onions and mushrooms in wine and tomato sauce
A dish of chicken cooked in a tomato, garlic, and olive oil sauce with herbs from Provence
Surface Forms
Morphology
hunter's + chicken
The phrase is compositional: 'hunter's' signals a style or preparation associated with hunters and 'chicken' names the meat, so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a chicken dish prepared in a 'hunter' style. However, the exact ingredients and culinary sense (tomatoes, mushrooms, herbs; akin to cacciatore) are not fully predictable from the parts alone, so the relation is only partially transparent. Many languages have equivalent 'hunter-style' culinary terms, which supports partial recognizability but not full predictability.
Etymology
Hunter's chicken may come from the Italian phrase 'alla cacciatora', which means 'hunter's style'. The hunter in the name refers to people who cooked chicken with tomatoes, mushrooms and herbs they could find, making a simple one-pan stew, so today hunter's chicken means a chicken casserole with those ingredients.