Giovanni Syracusa: Hunter-style Chicken — Pollo alla cacciatore

Sep 12, 2026 | Chicken cacciatore is one of my favourite things to make with a whole chicken. I like to have the butcher cut it into pieces, then cook everything together in one pan with white wine, olives, garlic, rosemary and sage. It’s simple food, but exactly the kind of thing you’d expect to eat in the Italian countryside.

A lot of people are used to chicken cacciatore with tomatoes, but this version is made in bianco.

Cacciatore means “hunter-style,” and this is the kind of chicken dish hunters would have prepared before tomatoes became common in Italian cooking.

A whole chicken, a few vegetables, some herbs and wine, and you’ve got a rustic Italian family dinner on the table.


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Giada De Laurentiis Makes Chicken Cacciatore | Everyday Italian | Food Network

Oct 1, 2019

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Stanley Tucci Makes Chicken Cacciatore

Sep 15, 2023 | “Each Italian family seems to have its own variation on this classic dish,” says Stanley Tucci, actor, cookbook author and host of the series Searching for Italy. This version hails from his mother’s side of the family, and it includes tomatoes — an ingredient that cooks on his father’s side of the family typically omitted from their chicken cacciatore. Stanley recommends serving this hearty one-pan meal with a medium-bodied white or a light red. | Tucci™ by GreenPan™ Exclusively at Williams Sonoma

Regrettably, I cannot provide a link to the full recipe, even though one is provided, because it doesn’t work here in Europe. The ingredients and method are not available on YouTube, either; therefore, if you wish to make it, you will have to wing it from what can be gleaned from the video itself. It looks tasty and delicious, I must say. – Mark