Chicken Cacciatore

This is another dinner express recipe.  I have made it for years.  You can see I am not a fan of slow cooking, in the sense of cooking stews for hours.  

I use chicken thighs, with skin and bone, but you could use leftover chickenAI use fresh tomatoes (or frozen).   Canned tomatoes are tasty and nutritious but the cans are lined with BPA, which is not good for you.  

Those white button mushrooms are pretty tasteless and pointless but the brown ones are good (Crimini).  They have just the right taste and texture.  Be sure to get ones that are dry not kind of slimy or sticky. 

Ingredients
1 lb chicken thighs
2 cups chicken broth
2 lb (4 cups) tomatoes, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
1 large green pepper, chopped
4 - 8 oz. mushrooms, chopped
1/4 cup parsley, chopped
Garlic, grated
1 tsp. basil, dried

Rice or noodles.

Instructions
Cook the chicken in broth for 10 minutes.
Add tomatoes, onion, pepper, and mushrooms, garlic, and herbs.
Simmer 20 minutes.  
Cook pasta or rice.
Serve.