Chicken cacciatore

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Ingredients

• 1 kg chicken thighs and legs, bone in
• 1/3 cup flour
• Salt and pepper
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 25g butter
• 1 onion, medium dice
• 200g button mushrooms, sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 400g tin whole tomatoes, strained and roughly chopped
• 1 cup white wine (I used a cleanskin Semillon)
• 3-4 sprigs lemon thyme
• 12 whole Kalamata olives

Method

Preheat oven to 190C.

Heat a large frying pan until hot.

Mix flour, salt and pepper in a bowl and dredge chicken pieces in the flour mixture, shaking off excess flour.

Add oil to frying pan followed by chicken and brown. Remove to a plate and keep until needed.

Turn heat down to medium, add butter, and once melted add onion, mushrooms and garlic. Saute for 5 minutes, season with a little salt and pepper then add tomato paste.

Stir to combine and cook for 4-5 minutes.

Add diced tomatoes followed by white wine and stir to combine.

Bring to the boil, add lemon thyme and olives then place chicken pieces on top, cover frying pan with a lid or foil and place in the oven to cook for one hour.

After one hour, remove the lid/foil, turn up the heat to 210C and continue for a further 30 minutes. Remove from oven, and serve.

Notes

• If you dont have an ovenproof frying pan, you can transfer the chicken and sauce to a casserole dish with a lid.
• You can remove the chicken skin before cooking if you want to decrease the amount of fat in the recipe.
• Recipe created by Camilla Baker for Kidspot, New Zealands best recipe finder.

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