Chicken cacciatore with mashed potato
3
Points®
Total time: 1 hr 30 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 1 hr 15 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
Cacciatore is a classic Italian dish that is well balanced with the flavours of tomato, olives and capers.
Ingredients
Oil spray
3 x 3 second spray(s)
Skinless chicken drumstick
245 g, (buy 270g), fat trimmed
Chicken thigh, skinless, raw
440 g, (buy 500g), fat trimmed, halved
Shortcut bacon
3 slice(s), (buy 100g), fat trimmed, finely chopped
Brown onion
1 medium, finely chopped
Celery
1 stick(s), finely chopped
Carrot(s)
2 medium, thinly sliced
Garlic
2 clove(s), crushed
Canned diced tomatoes
800 g, (2 x 400g cans)
Brown sugar
1 tsp
Balsamic vinegar
1 tbs
Black olives, drained
40 g, kalamata, (1/4 cup)
Capers, rinsed, drained
1 tbs, in vinegar
Potato(es)
420 g, (500g peeled), cut into 2cm pieces
Skim milk
⅓ cup(s), (80ml)
Snow peas
400 g, trimmed
Fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 tbs, finely chopped
Instructions
1
Lightly spray a large non-stick frying pan with oil and heat over high heat. Cook chicken, in batches, for 5 minutes or until browned all over. Transfer to a large saucepan. Re-spray pan with oil, add bacon and cook for 3 minutes or until browned. Place in saucepan with chicken. Re-spray pan with oil. Add onion and celery and cook for 5 minutes or until softened. Add to saucepan along with carrot, garlic, tomatoes, sugar and vinegar and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 40 minutes.
2
Add olives and capers and cook for a further 10 minutes or until chicken is cooked. Transfer chicken to a serving dish. Bring sauce to the boil and boil for 5 minutes or until reduced and thickened. Spoon over chicken.
3
Meanwhile, boil, steam or microwave potato until very tender. Mash together with milk and season with salt. Steam or microwave snow peas until tender.
4
Serve cacciatore with mashed potato and snow peas and sprinkle with parsley.
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