Has anyone ever made anything with capers that actually tasted ok?
I just can’t suss them!
I just can’t suss them!
Capers
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Haddock. Or any firm white fish - Cod e.g. Fry in butter with some olives and capers. Eat w/small potatoes squashed up with some olive oil, salt an lemon in them. Once you get a taste for capers you will put them in everything.
Very good with pasta. Cook the pasta, stir in chilli oil, capers, salt and some spinach to wilt. Grill a chop to go with it. Or just look up a recipe for Puttanesca.
Mash them up with garlic, olives, anchovies, salt. Great on toast.
They taste salty more than anything else. They grow on nasturtiums.
Very good with pasta. Cook the pasta, stir in chilli oil, capers, salt and some spinach to wilt. Grill a chop to go with it. Or just look up a recipe for Puttanesca.
Mash them up with garlic, olives, anchovies, salt. Great on toast.
They taste salty more than anything else. They grow on nasturtiums.
I think they're a rather acquired taste, especially these days.
They used to be used with anything greasy...meat or fish.....but chopped and added to things like mayonnaise too. Good with sauces, mushroom, lemon...surprising just how well they go with some things.
If you take to them they're good in salads as a wee burst of tangy salty flavour too.
You can rinse off salt brined ones if they're too much.
They used to be used with anything greasy...meat or fish.....but chopped and added to things like mayonnaise too. Good with sauces, mushroom, lemon...surprising just how well they go with some things.
If you take to them they're good in salads as a wee burst of tangy salty flavour too.
You can rinse off salt brined ones if they're too much.
Capers mashed/minced like you do with garlic, lemon zest, butter, clove of garlic finely minced,... melt over low heat for a few mins, let the flavours infuse..., drizzle over many things.. Fish (not smoked through, its weird) Chicken..., veg.... And as weird as it sounds... Seafood pizza... Tinned tuna, Anchovies, sliced black olives (from a jar), red onion/shallot and capers... Drizzle of garlic butter at the end... Very tasty.
I love the little pickled ones in salads, couscous, nachos & sauces. Tartare sauce a particular favourite.
I like just eating them straight out of the jar… but I can see why they might be an acquired taste.
No they grow on caper bushes, Capparis genus I understand. (You seem to be able to grow them in the UK so another plant for my list...)
You can pickle the young seed pods and flower buds of nasturtiums. We've done that for many years and they make a nice addition to a pizza.
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I do that too
On pizza with tuna and onion. Tartare sauce is made with capers, parsley, chervil, gherkin, shallot and mayo. It’ll make fish and chips a lot better than the commercial stuff.
As @Billy-o says, in melted butter for fish is good.
@Billy-o said they grow on nasturtiums....well maybe not 'real' capers, but the nasturtiums are used in the same way, and during wartime were very popular as a substitute. My Dad liked them, and nasturtiums grow easily in the UK
I grew nasturtiums once thinking they’d be a lovely addition to salads etc and hopes some capers might form too. All I ended up with was the hugest colony of greenfly the world has ever seen!
Capers are essential if you want to make tartare sauce.
And home made is much nicer than shop bought.
And home made is much nicer than shop bought.
I've tried growing Gooseberries on more that one occasion Each time... Hundreds of little caterpillar type dudes murdered them and my currant bushes. Gooseberry Sawfly larvae on both... Dic kheads.I grew nasturtiums once thinking they’d be a lovely addition to salads etc and hopes some capers might form too. All I ended up with was the hugest colony of greenfly the world has ever seen!
Found this with capers, pulling up my big boy pants! Wish me luck!
I opened this thread expecting to see a litany of adventures , shenanigans , Hijinks and general skallywag type fun filled dits.
Wrong sort of Capers.
Wrong sort of Capers.
Sounds good!Found this with capers, pulling up my big boy pants! Wish me luck!
