Easy Healthy Crockpot Chicken Caccitore
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Ready In: 6 hrs 15 mins
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2-2 cups onion rings, from sliced large peeled yellow onion
- 2 garlic cloves, fresh and sliced thinly
- 1 1⁄3 lbs chicken breasts, thighs, skinless boneless fresh pastured
- 1 red bell pepper, large and seeded and cored and sliced into rings
- 6 ounces sliced mushrooms, shitake (fresh)
- 3 ounces tomato paste
- 2 cups chicken broth, no sodium organic
- 15 ounces diced tomatoes, canned plum
- 1 cup Burgundy wine, sweet red
- 1⁄2 teaspoon thyme
- 1⁄2 teaspoon basil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon parsley
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1 -2 bay leaf, fresh green
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon butter, melted (optional) or 1 teaspoon coconut oil, extra virgin (optional)
- 8 ounces spaghetti
- 8 teaspoons parmesan cheese, fresh grated
- 4 parsley sprigs, fresh
Directions
- Place onion rings in bottom of 4 quart crockpot.
- Place whole chicken pieces on top of onion rings or, if preferred, slice so that each serving consists of 2 chunks of meat.
- Place sliced red bell pepper rings atop chicken pieces.
- Place sliced mushroom pieces atop bell pepper and chicken.
- In separate large bowl place the tomato paste amount you will use.
- Pour 2 cups chicken broth over tomato paste and blend with a fork.
- Add 15 oz diced plum tomato to bowl mixture and blend.
- Add 1 cup sweet red burgundy wine to bowl mixture.
- Add bay leaf and seasonings to bowl mixture and stir so mixed.
- Pour bowl mixture over chicken and bell pepper mixture in crockpot, add 1 teaspoon oil if you wish, cover, turn on low, and cook 6-8 hours as you prefer.
- During the last 8 minutes of cooking prepare the pasta in a separate pot and drain when cooked.
- Divide cooked pasta among 4 plates, 10" each, and using tongs proportion the chicken among the 4 plates along with the mushrooms and bell pepper slices and onion rings.
- Ladle broth over the 4 indvidiual servings on plates.
- Sprinkle 2 tsp grated parmesan cheese over each plate and in center of plate portion place leaves from a parsley sprig and then serve.
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