Capers,what are they used for?

hollydays

Anyone?............................

Wee_Bargain_Hunter

They're nice with smoked salmon.

Angelraesunshine

i think you can use them the same way you would use olives

Nix143

Yerm, capers, I heart them. Favourite use - puttanesca, my all time fave pasta sauce :T

From Wiki
The salted and pickled caper bud (also called caper) is often used as a seasoning or garnish. Capers are a common ingredient in Mediterranean cuisine. The mature fruit of the caper shrub is also prepared similarly, and marketed as caper berries. The buds, when ready to pick, are a dark olive green and about the size of a kernel of maize. They are picked, then pickled in salt, or a salt and vinegar solution.
Capers are a distinctive ingredient in Sicilian and southern Italian cooking, used in salads, pizzas, meat dishes and pasta sauces. Examples of uses in Italian cuisine are chicken piccata and salsa puttanesca. They are also often served with cold smoked salmon or cured salmon dishes (especially lox and cream cheese). Capers are also sometimes substituted for olives to garnish a martini.
Capers are categorized and sold by their size, defined as follows, with the smallest sizes being the most desirable: Non-pareil (0-7 mm), surfines (7-8 mm), capucines (8-9 mm), capotes (9-11 mm), fines (11-13 mm), and grusas (14+ mm).
Unripe nasturtium seeds can be substituted for capers; they have a very similar texture and flavour when pickled.

cowbutt

Konigsberger Klopse - an east-Prussian dish of poached meatballs in a lemon and caper sauce. I had it with boiled potatoes and greens in a traditional German restaurant a couple of years ago.

spaghetti_monster

I like them in salads too... especially a niscoise (however you spell it) - love the way they go with the tuna/potato/egg mix!

anniemf2508

use them in homemade tartare sauce

purpleivy

Useful thread, I bought some to add to hm tartare sauce, but kids prefer it without. SO now I have the rest of the jar.

Bargain_Rzl

They are rather nice all on their own, out of the jar with a fork :whistle:

Penelope_Penguin

Pasta alla Puttanesca Might do that for tea tomorrow.

Penny. x

Tashja

My Uncle used to do SPECIAL MASHED POTATO with them !!! Yummy !!!

Mashe the potatos as normal and add some lemon juice and mushed up capers to tast. Proper comfort food !!!!

T xx