Coq au vin, as it’s known in France, is one of the world’s great dishes and all it takes to create it is a whole chicken (or a few chicken thighs), half a bottle of wine, and a few vegetables. A slow cooker makes matters even easier, but a good old-fashioned pot will do, too for this classic chicken in red wine recipe.
In the pantheon of classic Italian-American dishes, chicken cacciatore emerges at the top of the nutritional totem pole. That’s because it derives its flavor from a lusty stew of tomatoes, peppers, onions, and wine—not a blanket of cheese or oil-soaked bread crumbs. That’s right, you’ll save almost 600 calories with our chicken cacciatore recipe and almost 10 bucks than you would dining on Olive Garden’s Chicken Scampi.