The food - Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Cacciatore

Easy Slow cooker Chicken Cacciatore

So ... we have been a little under-the-weather and low on energy at our house.  Hense the dirth of blog posts. But I did feel like it was worth passing on this recipe because it is so easy and it is delicious and fillng and real comfort food when you aren't feeling well.  I made it  last Thursday when I was at work all day and it was ready when we got home and had filled th house with deicious smells. 

Ingredients:
1 stewing chicken (it can still be frozen)
1 jar of prepared spagetti sauce (I have used many different kinds.  They all work.)
1 jar of pitted black olives

Polenta

Vegetable

Place the frozen (or thawed) chicken in the slow cooker and pour over the spagetti sauce.  Drain the liquid from the olives into the spagetti sauce jar, swish it around, and pour around the chicken.  Sprinkle the olives over and around the chicken. Turn on the slow cooker for the amount of time you need.  It will cook on high in 4 hours or on low in 10, or anything in between and be delicious.  Before serving prepare the polena and a vegetable of your chouce. 
After the first meal, if there are leftovers, bone the chicken and return the meat to the sauce and store in the refrigerator or freezer until you want to reheat. 

Part of the beauty of this is the leftovers.  The polenta and chicken-plus-sauce can be heated by the plate in the microwave and the polenta makes the most beautiful fried grits for breakfast with butter and maple syrup.