Crock Pot Chicken Cacciatore with Kick
Ingredients
Food Safety
Before you start, wash all surfaces and your hands with soap and warm water, and remember to wash your hands, utensils and cutting boards after they touch raw meat or eggs. Avoid cross-contamination by using a different cutting board for your meat and other ingredients. Make sure you’re cooking to safe temperatures and chilling any leftovers within two hours. For more food safety tips, visit our Food Safety at Home Section.
Steps
Pull all the skin from the chicken and trim away any fat. Pour ¼ cup (60 ml) juice from the can of tomatoes into a small bowl. Stir in the cornstarch until dissolved, then pour into a slow cooker and turn to high.
Drain off and discard the remaining juice from tomatoes, then pour the diced tomatoes into the slow cooker. If using whole tomatoes, however, coarsely chop and then spoon chopped tomatoes, but not the juice, into the cooker. Stir to coat with cornstarch mixture. Add garlic and seasonings. Cover while you chop pepper and remove pits from olives. Then stir both in.
Tuck the chicken into the sauce, bone side up. Cover and cook on high 3 hours or medium for 6 hours.
Stir in the mushrooms and continue cooking 30 minutes or until chicken and mushrooms are done as you like. Before spooning out be sure stir the mixture well, bringing up the thickened cacciatore from the bottom of the dish. Marvelous served over pasta. Refrigerated, mixture will keep well at least 3 days.
Nutrition Info
| Per 465 g serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calories | 290 |
| Protein | 26 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Carbohydrate | 25 g |
| Fibre | 5 g |
| Sugar | 9 g |
| Cholesterol | 95 mg |
| Sodium | 860 mg |
| Per 465 g serving | % Daily Value |
|---|---|
| Potassium | 14 |
| Calcium | 10 |
| Iron | 25 |
| Vitamin A | 40 |
| Vitamin C | 130 |
| Vitamin B6 | 32 |
| Vitamin B12 | 21 |
| Folate | 11 |
| Zinc | 29 |
