Cacciatore (, , ; ) or cacciatora refers to an

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meal prepared with onions, herbs, usually tomatoes, often peppers, and sometimes wine. Cacciatore is popularly made with braised chicken (''pollo alla cacciatora'') or

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(''coniglio alla cacciatora''), ''

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'' (''abbacchio alla cacciatora''), an Italian preparation of lamb, capon (''cappone alla cacciatora'') or

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es (''patate alla cacciatora''). The ' are small

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seasoned with only garlic and pepper.

Recipes

Chicken cacciatore

Chicken cacciatore typically, but not always, includes base ingredients of onion, garlic, and tomato.

Rabbit cacciatore

Rabbit cacciatore involves the use, in the recipe, of olives, onions, garlic, sage,

rosemary ''Salvia rosmarinus'' (), commonly known as rosemary, is a shrub with fragrant, evergreen, needle-like leaves and white, pink, purple, or blue flowers. It is a member of the sage family, Lamiaceae. The species is native to the Mediterranean r ...

, vegetable broth, white wine, olive oil and black pepper.

Salami cacciatore

Salami cacciatore is a small-size salami typical throughout Italy. Ingredients vary from region to region.

''Abbacchio'' cacciatore

The pieces of ''

'' should be browned in

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and then cooked for about 45 minutes with

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, sage and

, and doused with salted

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crushed and cooked in the meat sauce. This recipe, typical of Roman cuisine, is prepared throughout Italy. It is consumed throughout

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as an

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and

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dish. Besides Easter, this recipe is prepared all year round, especially for Sunday lunch.

Capon cacciatore

The recipe for

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cacciatore involves the use of onion, carrot, celery, rosemary and parsley, red wine and crushed peeled tomatoes as ingredients.

Potato cacciatore

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cacciatore are prepared using grilled onion, cherry tomatoes, tomato pulp, olive oil, sunflower oil, basil, salt, garlic, rosemary, sage, black pepper, chili pepper, bay leaf and white pepper.

Variations

The many different variations of this dish are based upon ingredients available in specific regions. For example, in

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, cacciatore often includes red wine, while

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chefs might use white wine. Some versions of the dish may use mushrooms.

References

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