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Chicken & squash cacciatore
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Total Time:
1 hour 20 minutes
Nourishing one-pot chicken dish with three vegetable servings for a cozy meal.
Ingredients:
  • 1 onion
  • 1 leek
  • 2 rashers of higher-welfare smoked pancetta
  • 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
  • olive oil
  • ½ a butternut squash or sweet potatoes (600g)
  • 100 g chestnut mushrooms
  • 2 x 400 g tins of plum tomatoes
  • 250 ml Chianti or other good red wine
  • 4 free-range chicken thighs, bone in
  • 8 black olives (stone in)
  • 200 g seeded wholemeal bread
Instructions:
  • - Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas 5. - Peel and cut the onion, wash and slice the leek, peel and slice the garlic. - In a large ovenproof casserole pan over medium heat, cook pancetta and rosemary in oil with bay leaves for 2 minutes. - Add garlic, onion, and leek, cook for 10 minutes, stirring regularly. - Chop squash/sweet potato into bite-sized chunks. - Remove chicken skin, add chicken to pan. Pour in wine, add tomatoes, break them up. - Add water, mushrooms, squash/sweet potato trimmings, mushrooms, squash/sweet potato. - Add olives, simmer on the stove, then transfer to the oven for 1 hour until chicken is tender. - Season and serve with bread.