Chicken Cacciatore Risotto

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I remember coming across this recipe a really long time ago, thinking, “I need to make this right away!” and then somehow it got pushed from the menu the following week and back into the depths of my Google Reader. It’s really quite unfortunate, because this was a great meal.

I love meals that are spins on other popular dishes. I do it frequently with burgers and risotto myself. This risotto is based on chicken cacciatore. Cacciatore, while flavorful in itself, is usually put on top of plain pasta. It’s still delicious, but letting the flavors of the cacciatore permeate through the whole dish, as it does with this risotto, is a fabulous idea.

I normally use white wine in my cacciatore [please click only if you want see a  horrific picture and an even more horrific “write up”], but I liked Josie’s use of red wine so I went with it. I’m now looking forward to making another red wine risotto very soon. The red wine just gave the risotto a greater depth of flavor—and a very pretty color!

Although this recipe called for chicken thighs, I used breasts. It’s not that I don’t like thighs—in fact, if you read this blog at all, you should know I hold them far superior to chicken breasts—but breasts were what I had in my freezer. I made a few other small changes to this recipe, and we were very happy with the results. I’m looking forward to making this again and not letting it get lost in the black hole of internet recipes.

Chicken Cacciatore Risotto

14 thoughts on “Chicken Cacciatore Risotto

  1. I do the same thing with recipes…have every intention of making it ASAP and voila, months have passed. This looks delicious and I, too, love the idea of red wine in there. After making a red wine pasta I’m sold on red wine IN entrees! Yum!

  2. This is definitely a super fun spin on an already delicious classic! Arborio rice and that creamy risotto texture makes just about any dish better, I’m convinced.

  3. Made this tonight for dinner…it was delicious. This was my first time making risotto and it came out great. It took a little more liquid than the recipe called for in order to cook the rice all the way. Definitely will make again! Thanks.

  4. Thanks for posting this! I made Josie’s version shortly after she posted it, loved it, and promptly lost the recipe. Then you posted it and I saved it in my Google Reader, thinking it sounded familiar. making this for dinner tonight- can’t wait to try your take on it.

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