cacciatore
/ˌkatʃəˈtɔːreɪ
/ /ˌkatʃəˈtɔːri/(also cacciatora /ˌkatʃəˈtɔːrə/)
adjective [postpositive]
Prepared in a spicy tomato sauce with mushrooms and herbs: chicken cacciatore...
- The main courses on the table d' hôte usually include two or three pastas, and a handful of meat dishes like chicken, veal, sole provençale, or Italian sausages in a cacciatore sauce.
- There were dinner rolls and chicken cacciatore, baked ziti, and potato salad, peas and corn, and coleslaw.
- ‘Cacciatore’ translates into ‘hunter’, meaning that when a dish is served cacciatore, it's served in the ‘Hunters style’.
Origin
Italian, literally 'hunter' (because of the use of ingredients that a hunter might have to hand).
Rhymes
- well-arranged
- well-arrayed
- well-articulated
- well-asserted
- well-assorted
- well-assured
- well attended
- well-attending
- well-attested
- well-attired
- well-authenticated
- well aware
- wellaway
- well-baked
- well balanced
- well beam
- well-beaten
- well-bedded
- well-befitting
- well-begun
- well behaved
- well-being
- well-beknown
- well-beloved
- well-benched