Umami Chicken Cacciatore Recipe, Will Tantalize the Taste Buds

Umami- is a Japanese word meaning savory a "deliciousness" factor deriving specifically from detection of the natural amino acid, glutamic acid , or glutamates common in meats, cheese, broth, stock, and other protein-heavy foods.

This is the new catch phrase or hot word around for chefs in the industry. It has been around for a hundred years or so but people are just now starting to really talk about it in food circles and starting to use it more in every day cooking to really pack a punch in everyday meals. This is a dish that will do just that with the flavor of a cooked or rendored pancetta.

Ingredients you will need: Chicken 4 breast- 4 ounces of Pancetta, 1 large red bell diced 1 small onion diced, 3 garlic cloves minced, 1 - 28 oz can of diced tomatoes, 3 ounces of olive or canola oil, 3/4 cup of white wine-one that you would drink, 3 cans of chicken broth, 3 Tablespoons of capers, 2 Teaspoons of dried oregano, 1/4 Cup of fresh minced basil leaves, 1/2 Cup of flour, salt and pepper to taste.

First you will slice you pancetta and brown off in the pan. You will remove and set aside. You will then salt and pepper your chicken and then dredge your chicken in the flour, and sauté your chicken in the pan with your oil. You will then remove the chicken and set aside and add your garlic to the pan over a low heat and let it bloom. Add the rest of your flour if there is any left over, and the wine and let it cook off or brown ever so lightly and then add your tomatoes. The acid from the tomatoes will remove any fond or flavor from the bottom of the pan. You will then add your pancetta and all other ingredients except the chicken to the pan and let it simmer down until the sauce has reduced by a quarter if you want a more runny sauce, or by half if you prefer a thicker sauce. Then you will add back in your chicken to the dish and let it heat back up to a good serving temperature to make sure that the chicken is warm through, and then serve with any pasta or bread you like. I hope that you enjoy this dish it is really good!

Resource for for tag line from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami

Chef Shelley Pogue, a Cum Laude, Le Cordon Blue graduate and Executive Research and Development Chef, for Vertical Sales and Marketing, San Ramon, CA.

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