Chicken cacciatore and tortellini was a good choice for a cold day

I made something easy since I have been having a hard time recently. Also fair warning, I am not much of a cook plus I just wanted to make something without much effort.

I watched a short video of someone’s nonna demonstrating on how to make chicken cacciatore on the stovetop, but it wasn’t a crockpot recipe so I tweaked it a bit to be made in a crockpot. Pretty decent overall, I would make again.

Here are the ingredients used:

• 4-5lb chicken thighs (chicken breasts can be used, I just used what was on sale)

• 1 shallot

• 1/2 yellow onion

• 3 bell peppers

• garlic (I used minced in olive oil, please don’t come for me lol I know it’s sacrilegious. I used 4tbsp of it but I think you can get away with just flavoring it to how you’d prefer)

• A single 28oz can of crushed tomatoes in basil

• A single 6oz can of tomato paste

• Basil paste (fresh basil is fine, I just buy basil paste because I like to keep some in the fridge and i go through it slowly. Like the garlic, measurement wise is to your preferred taste. I prob used 1/4th to 1/2 of the container I had).

• 8oz chopped mushrooms

• 1tbsp of salted butter

• Seasonings (Oregano, salt & pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, rosemary, to taste again/no particular measurements)

• lemon juice

• olive oil (not a ton, but I was not sure about liquids so I added enough to cover everything)

• I threw some parsley on it bc it seemed like a good choice at first and since I had some fresh parsley on hand tbh but it wasn’t a huge necessity and didn’t add a lot flavor wise imo, so this can be skipped for next time

• cheese tortellini (any pasta will do, I just happened to have some tortellini so I gave that a go)

Directions:

Honestly, other than cutting & sautéing the onion/garlic/mushrooms in the butter on the stove first, all I did was yeet everything in the pot on low for 6.5-7hrs and boiling the tortellini right before serving.

One regret was that I added some water while cooking, and while the sauce thickened overnight in the fridge, it def didn’t need it (hence the second pic looks a lil more watery than necessary). Next time I make this, I prob will just use regular linguine or something rather than tortellini tbh since the sauce was very flavorful on its own.