Tag: quick

Chicken Cacciatore in the crockpot is simple and quick to put together. The most difficult part of this recipe is chopping the onion, especially if you react to the vapors as I do.  Most of the time my gracious husband will jump right in and volunteer to cut them. He is more tolerant of cutting up onions than I am. He is kind to spare my eyes and sinuses from burning. After my husband chops up the onion we put it into a Tupperware Quick Chef and chop it up as much as desired.  We do the same with the pepper before adding both to the crockpot.   

A great use of garden zucchini

Chicken, spaghetti sauce, onion, pepper and zucchini are the only ingredients of this chicken cacciatore, making this meal quick, easy, fairly healthy and tasty.  It is a great way to get my kiddos to eat zucchini. Our garden provides us with many zucchini in the summer.  My husband and I are the only ones that eat it at my house.  My boys won’t eat it unless it is shredded and baked into bread.  We have tried olive oil, spices and cheese; and spaghetti sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Neither of those options appeal to any of my three kiddos.  I wonder if it might be a texture issue, or if it is just the taste they don’t like.  Whichever the reason, they won’t eat zucchini as it is.  If I chop it up small enough, in about half to quarter inch cubes, they will eat it as part of this meal.

Tie the chicken cacciatore all together

The end mixture produces a good amount of liquid inside the crockpot, so if you would prefer not to have all of that liquid with your Chicken cacciatore, serve it over or with a starch that will soak some of that up.  My family likes cheese, so I usually top with grated or shredded cheese.  Most of the time, I serve this over spaghetti noodles or angel hair pasta.  It could also be served by itself or over another starch, like potatoes or rice.  

Let me know how you liked this and how you ate it-if you paired it with a starch or had it alone, and if you used a starch, what kind.