One Pot Chicken Cacciatore

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
• 3/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 (3 1/2-4 lb) chicken (cut up, rinse, pat dry)
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 medium yellow onion, diced
• 1 carrot, diced
• 1 celery rib, diced
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped
• 3 sprigs fresh thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 (28 ounce) can plum tomatoes (i cut them up in the can with my kitchen shears)
• 1/4 cup dry red wine (carbernet savignon or a pinot noir work well)
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley

Recipe

• 1 put the olive oil into the bottom of your dutch oven over medium heat.
• 2 mix together the flour, salt and pepper.
• 3 lightly dredge your clean, dry chicken pieces in your flour mixture and place them in your dutch oven. cook them 4-5 minutes on each side until they are a golden brown color. remove the chicken pieces from your pot and set aside.
• 4 add your onion, carrot, celery, garlic, thyme and bay leaf to the pot. add your red wine. give the mixture a little mix with your wooden spoon and scrape up all the yummy brown bits from the bottom of your pot.
• 5 add your cut up plum tomatoes and parsley.
• 6 bring sauce to a boil. turn your heat to low to bring the sauce to a simmer. arrange your browned chicken pieces in the sauce and put the lid on the pot. cook over low heat for 45 minutes.