Cacciatore Me if You Can

I love one pot meals, especially during the winter time. This recipe is great because you can do one of two things--make the sauce alone and freeze it for an easy heat-up meal, or make it with the chicken that basically cooks in the sauce. You will have enough sauce from this recipe to make 2 dinners out of it, so if you do freeze it without chicken, do it in 2 containers. If you make it with the chicken, have 1 container on-hand to freeze half of the sauce. The sauce is very low-cal, so all of the calories come from the chicken. Also, it has lots of veggies in it, which is always a bonus!

Chicken Cacciatore
Serves 5
4 PointsPlus values per serving
217 calories per serving

Ingredients
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp onion powder
2 tsp oregano
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
15oz chicken cutlets, or whole breasts cut into fillets
1 small red pepper, roughly chopped
1 small green pepper, roughly chopped
1/2 red onion, roughly chopped
1 8oz container sliced mushrooms
1 15 oz can diced tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
2 bay leaves
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
1 tbs balsamic vinegar
2 bay leaves

Directions
-Spray a large saute pan with PAM and heat up over medium high heat.
-Mix garlic powder, onion powder, oregano, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper together. Coat chicken in the spice mixture.
-Brown chicken in pan. Remove and add veggies, starting with the peppers and onions. Once they are soft add the mushrooms and let cooks until all liquid is evaporated.
-Add diced tomatoes, tomato paste, balsamic vinegar and bay leaves. Let simmer for 5 minutes. Add chicken back to sauce and and let simmer on low for 15 minutes.
-Serve with egg noodles or linguine.

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