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Autumn
Vegetables
By Elizabeth Yarnell
www.GloriousOnePotMeals.com
Article Summary:
Celebrate the season with hearty, nutritious meals brimming with veggies. Try
this infused one-pot meal that includes summer squash, bell peppers and tomatoes
in a savory Italian recipe.
Autumn has always been my favorite time of year. The fiery glory of the leaves
during my college years in Maine. The alpenglow on the mountainsides near my
home in the Rockies. Pumpkin patches and fresh apple cider straight from the
press. Thanksgiving, the most important holiday tradition in my family, and all
of the annual rituals of the harvest.
And, of course the abundance of end-of-summer vegetables in the markets.
Zucchinis and other summer squashes, carrots, potatoes… they all come into their
own in the early fall.
Celebrate the season with hearty, nutritious meals brimming with veggies. Try
this infused one-pot meal that includes summer squash, bell peppers and tomatoes
in a savory Italian recipe. It’s a quick and easy way to throw a weeknight meal
together that even works if you use frozen boneless chicken pieces instead of
fresh, as long as the pieces aren’t frozen together.
Feel free to substitute different vegetables into the mix; just try to exchange
a green veggie for another green veggie, a yellow for a yellow, etc. to ensure a
variety of nutrients in your meal.
Chicken Cacciatore
Servings 4
Ingredients
1/2 med. onion, sliced thinly and separated
1 28-oz. can tomatoes, chop, strain, and save juice
1 tsp. each dried basil, oregano, and marjoram
2 cups orzo *
4 pieces chicken, bone-in or boneless, fresh or frozen
salt and pepper, to taste
6-10 garlic cloves, peeled & chopped
1 sm. yellow squash, diagonal slices
1 sm. zucchini, sliced into medallions
1 sm. green pepper, julienne cut
1 sm. red pepper, julienne cut
2 Tbsp. Drained capers, optional
Instructions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Spray the inside of a 3 1/2 or 4-quart cast iron
Dutch oven and lid with olive oil.
Place onions in a layer inside the base of the pot. Drain tomatoes and reserve
liquid. In a large measuring cup or a medium bowl, mix tomato juice with herbs
and water as needed to make 2 cups of liquid. Set 1/2 cup of herbed liquid
aside. Sprinkle the orzo into the pot among the onion slices. Add the herbed
liquid evenly across the base.
Place chicken atop orzo. Lightly salt and pepper. Sprinkle with garlic. Place
chopped and drained tomatoes over chicken. Pile in all other veggies in layers,
beginning with squash. Salt and pepper to taste. Pour saved herbed liquid over
all.
Cover and bake for 53 minutes, or until 3 minutes after the aroma wafts from the
oven. Be sure that the chicken is completely cooked before eating any
ingredients from the pot.
Notes
*Orzo is rice-shaped pasta. Butterfly or bowtie pasta also work well in this
meal.
About the author:
Elizabeth Yarnell is a Certified Nutritional Consultant, inventor, and author of Glorious
One-Pot Meals: A new quick & healthy approach to Dutch oven cooking.
Glorious One-Pot Meal recipes are protected under US and Canadian patents. Visit
www.GloriousOnePotMeals.com to learn more about this unique cooking method
and
www.EffortlessEating.com for Elizabeth’s philosophy and recipes for living
naturally.
The Glorious One-Pot Meal cooking method is unique and holds US patent
6,846,504.
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