Cacciatora, or hunter's chicken, is a classic Italian dish. How do you make it – and what other traditional Italian recipes are ripe for a revival?
| Felicity Cloake's perfect cacciatora: a rich and aromatic one-pot meal. Photographs: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian |
Pollo alla cacciatora, or hunter's chicken, is such a stalwart of the traditional Italian restaurant menu in this country that it wasn't until I came to write this piece that I paused to wonder why anyone, Fantastic Mr Fox aside, would go out hunting and come back with a chicken.