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You loved the chicken parmesan so much that I had to come back and do this one — chicken cacciatore. But let me tell you the difference. Chicken parmesan? That’s an Italian-American dish. Ask for it in Italy and they’ll throw you right out of the restaurant. Chicken cacciatore is the real thing — it comes straight from Italy. Here’s what I’ll tell you about chicken: I’ll eat almost anything a little overcooked or undercooked, but dry chicken? I’m sending it back every time. The beauty of this recipe is you can’t dry it out — it simmers right in the sauce and stays moist and tender. It’s simple, about an hour, and you can throw in whatever you like: peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives, all over a bed of rice. I first made this for my wife years ago when she was just learning to cook Italian — now she makes it better than I do. While I cook, I’ll be pouring my fruit wines and telling you a few stories along the way. This is the real Italian way. Salud!
Ex-Mob Boss Cooks Mafia Style Chicken Cacciatore (Old Family Recipe)
0:00 – Introduction: Shopping for Chicken Cacciatore
2:47 – Why I Cook Twice a Year
3:36 – The Coupon Lady Problem
4:12 – Surprising My Wife on Saturday
4:35 – Italian Dish, Not Italian-American
5:02 – Why I Send Chicken Back
6:18 – Starting the Recipe: Legs and Thighs
7:25 – Cutting the Onions and Peppers
11:24 – Searing the Chicken
13:25 – The Wolfgang Puck Story
15:49 – Browning, Not Cooking
17:12 – Adding Onions and Peppers
17:55 – Don’t Forget the Garlic
19:36 – It Comes From Calabria
20:16 – Croatia Was Wonderful
20:51 – Black Pepper Goes In
22:28 – The Rice and Chicken Broth
23:17 – Adding the Olives
23:49 – The Mutti Sauce for Color
26:25 – This Chicken Won’t Be Dry
28:34 – Bringing My Wife to Sunday Dinner
31:44 – Teaching My Wife to Cook Italian
33:36 – Plating the Dish
34:14 – The First Bite
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30 Comments
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I would love to taste your strawberry wine, I'm not much of a wine guy (alcohol in general) but i love anything with strawberry, hell i could drink a poison if it tastes like strawberry, never had a taste of strawberry wine.
MF has created a whole sub culture of mob nerds all by himself. Keep up the good work sir.
10:57 Michael Armenia is in Asia not Europe 😂
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Thoughts on John Alite getting arrested?
People are about to get popped for taking too long at the grocery line. 😂
Love you Mike , love that your a brother in Christ, but you DONT KNOW what your doin with this one 😂
This looks delicious! Thank you for the recipe, I’m going to make this 👏🏼
i am actually allergic to chicken😂
I’ve always dreamed of going to Tuscany ❤
Fantastic.
C'mon Mike. When's that cookbook coming out? 😁
Looks delicious!!👍🏻👍🏻
I hope one day you make Chicken Florentine. I absolutely love it.
I can't stand cooking in a messy kitchen, but best believe that kitchen will be worse than it started by the time I'm done with it. And it will stay that way for a few hours until I'm done eating.
There is a famous Italian neighborhood in st louis called "the hill". Yogi berra grew up there. That's where I go to get authentic Italian food in America. Lian Tony's in my favorite. Make sure you understand Italian. The menus aren't in English.
They been taking the preservatives that were put into our food BACK OUT for years. That's sad!
Green bell peppers are immature. Red and yellow have a better flavour
Sell them as tv dinners.
Mr Franzese, this is great content!
Wish I could try ur wines but I live in the UK
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It looks delicious Mike but I am a true pasta eater unfortunately few races I like brown rice racist got a little herbs in it but I'm a pasta eater
And olives I love I don't eat mushroom well I don't eat artichokes but I eat every other Olive and I don't eat mushrooms whether they sliced Jarred or whole how to get creative with the peppers and the garlic and onions
First Michael Franzese video I shared with my wife! 🙂
Yaaay another cooking video!
I was born in Rhode Island way back in the 50's, I wasn't Italian but we had a lot of Italians in RI.back then. My father loved to cook which was good caz my mom was a southerner and did not cook much. I started cooking at a young age. But when we had Chicken Cacciatore it was a special occasion. I loved it. I grew up and moved a few times ( to Tenn, then Florida, now I live in SoCal too. I haven't had chicken Cacciatore in years. Another chicken dish we had sometimes was Chicken Kapama ( I think it was called) it had some kind of brown butter sauce and was served over spaghetti. Not sure that was an Italian dish though.
Michael Franzese went full Christopher Moltisanti