In cooking, a style of preparing food (especially chicken or game) with tomatoes, onions, herbs, and sometimes mushrooms or olives in a hunter's sauce.
From Italian 'alla cacciatora' meaning 'in the hunter's style.' Derived from 'caccia' (hunt) plus the suffix '-tore' (one who does). It refers to the rustic, hearty way hunters would prepare their game.
Chicken cacciatora is basically what Italian hunters would make in the field with whatever they had available—it's peasant food that became so good it ended up in fancy restaurants worldwide.
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