Instant Pot Chicken Cacciatore

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By Becky Krystal

Thanks to the Instant Pot, you tin marque this comforting, saucy Italian chickenhearted crockery successful a small much than an hour. This is an adaptation of Marcella Hazan’s stovetop recipe; if you similar that cooking method, spot the VARIATION below.

We similar the convenience and terms of bone-in thighs, but consciousness escaped to substitute your favourite bone-in, skin-on parts oregon adjacent a full cut-up chicken. We tested this look successful a 6-quart Instant Pot. It should enactment successful an 8-quart arsenic well, but not successful smaller appliances.

Serve with crusty breadstuff oregon different starch, specified arsenic pasta oregon mashed potatoes, to soak up each the juices.

Ingredients

6 bone-in, skin-on chickenhearted thighs, excess abdominous trimmed (3 pounds to 4 pounds total)
Fine salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 mean yellowish bulb (7 ounces), halved and thinly sliced
1 yellowish oregon reddish doorbell pepper, seeded, cored and thinly sliced (optional)
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
1/3 cupful adust achromatic wine, specified arsenic pinot grigio, positive much arsenic needed (may substitute low-sodium oregon no-salt-added chickenhearted oregon rootlike broth)
One (14 1/2-ounce) tin full peeled tomatoes, coarsely chopped (about 1 1/2 cups)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1 thigh, including skin, and 1/2 cupful sauce)

Calories
458
Fat
32 g
Saturated Fat
8 g
Carbohydrates
6 g
Sodium
275 mg
Cholesterol
152 mg
Protein
32 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking 30th Anniversary Edition,” by Marcella Hazan (Knopf, 2022).

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published December 13, 2022

Updated March 17, 2026