What do you make that includes capers?

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I’ve bought a jar of capers to make Chicken Piccata. I’ll use some in a fish pie or sauce for plain fish, however I’ll still have some left over. Google throws up a few ideas but I’d rather hear how you use them. Equally if you’ve tried them in something that didn’t really work, that would be useful info too. Thanks

Salads. I’ve also had them on seafood pizza

This, minus the sultanas. was one of my favourites.

I like the idea of them in an egg mayo sarnie.

https://pin.it/7Dns4bcvv

A Rick Stein chicken dish

They go well in tuna mayo, I also add chopped up red onion, diced red peppers, cucumber and sweetcorn of course.

And YY on pizza and to make a cheat's tartare sauce for those fake chip shop frozen battered fish things.

Three things I use them in all the time:

Pasta Puttanesca sauce - onions, red peppers, tomatoes, black olives, chilli, oregano,ngarlic, capers, anchovies and parsley. (Don't know if this is the classic recipe, but it's how I make it and I love it.

Sicilian pasta - similar to puttanesca but with sardines not anchovies, and toasted pine nuts and sultanas - but I leave out the sultanas as DH hates them and I don't much like them.

Roast cod with tapenade - Mix black olive tapenade with chopped sun-dried tomatoes, capers, garlic. Put a generous layer of the mix on top of the cod (or hake, or other chunky white fish) Roast in the oven and serve with steamed green veg and whatever potatoes or rice you fancy with it.

You are amazing, thank you al x

Mushroom stroganoff!

https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/sausages-with-sicilian-inspired-carrot-stew.html

this without the raisins (and sausage).

Anything that needs a salty kick really - pasta sauces, most fish dishes, pizzas. Good way of getting salt taste without using table salt (one for the thyroid lovers out there).

That's a really good idea. Cheat tartare sauce for oven baked fish shop fish. Definitely trying that.

Greek salad, smoked salmon, also chuck them in pasta and pesto to liven it up.

My mum has them in an omelette with smoked salmon all the time, I thought I'd love them but they're not for me unfortunately. She also does shakshuka with a sort of puttanesca sauce and feta.

In Greece, I've seen them used fried to top a split pea dip. Can't remember what it's called.

Fava
This sort of thing https://cardamomanddill.com/2023/08/21/santorini-fava-dip/

Gnocchi bake - gnocchi, some pesto, frozen peas/sweetcorn, capers, plenty of halved cherry tomatoes plus chopped sun-dried tomatoes, maybe halved olives, lumps of mozzarella, a very little water, seasoning, mix it all up, grated cheddar on top, bung it in the oven, bingo. Very quick and popular with all generations of my family, including the vegetarians.

Love them in egg mayo sandwiches along with dill and some finely chopped celery and spring minion to make a kind of egg tartare.

Also caper, rosemary, lemon and garlic butter with lamb chops is divine.

just cook the chops and melt the butter in the pan with the meat juices. Add garlic and rosemary to soften then add lemon rind and juice plus the capers.

Tend to serve with dauphinoise potatoes and steamed tenderstem broccoli.

The meat and broccoli dipped in the flavoured “zingy” butter is amazing along with the mild creamy potatoes.

Not very health conscious but a treat dinner :-)

Tartare sauce, for a fish finger sandwich

thank You, lots to try!

I bung them in loads of things! Bloody love capers I do

Salad nicoise
Potato salad
Baked cod loins with roast veg
Salmon pasta
cook with fried tuna steak
Salsa verde
in pasta salads

Yum!

What everyone else says, and, blitz a heaped dsp, salt, pepper, three cloves of garlic, tbs olive oil, juice of a lemon. Lay two rainbow trout on a lightly oiled grill and rub the blitz in, putting what's left inside the fish. Grill and serve with crispy potato slices and rocket and Tommy salad. Bung a few whole capers over the fish and drizzle the pan juices over.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/herby-orzo-lemon-salad