Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, caponata. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Caponata is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Caponata is something that I have loved my entire life.
Caponata (Sicilian: capunata) is a Sicilian dish consisting of chopped fried eggplant and other vegetables, seasoned with olive oil, tomato sauce, celery, olives, and capers, in an agrodolce sauce. Numerous local variants exist concerning the ingredients, by adding carrots, bell peppers, potatoes. Caponata is a Sicilian sweet and sour version of ratatouille.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have caponata using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Caponata:
- Get 2 aubergines
- Get 1/2 bunch spring onions
- Make ready 2 onions
- Get 5 ripe tomatoes
- Make ready 100 gr raisins
- Make ready 1 tin chopped tomatoes
- Take 50 gr pinenuts
- Make ready 100 ml olive oil
- Make ready 2 tsp capers
- Get 50 ml white wine vinegar
Caponata is a delicious Sicilian eggplant salad with creamy caramelized eggplant, crisp celery and a savory sweet and sour Despite what some recipes may have you believe, Caponata is not a stew. It's more like a salad or relish, with an agrodolce(lit. sour-sweet) taste, and a variety of textures and. In this Sicilian caponata recipe, eggplant is cooked with celery, tomatoes, olives, and capers for a delicious hot relish or cold appetizer. Stir in celery mixture, tomatoes, olives, capers, tomato paste, and oregano.
Steps to make Caponata:
- Diced the aubergines and fry them in plenty of olive oil. When they have a good brown color set them aside.
- Dice onions and fry them in the same casserole.
- When the onions are soft add te tomatoes and a tin of tomatoes too. And put the cooked aubergines back.
- After 35 min cooking slowly with a lid on add the rest of the ingredients but keep pine nuts to serve as a garnish.
- You can serve this caponata as a main dish with bread. With some nice fish. As a veg for a pork chop. ENJOY!
Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low and simmer uncovered until caponata is thickened. Caponata is truly the delicious Sicilian appetizer made with eggplant and other vegetables. Nonna Sara's recipe is easy and quick for an unforgettable treat! Unfortunately, much of the caponata one encounters outside of Sicily is a shadow of what it should be. When it's done right, it's a zesty summer dish that's ideal for perking up a sluggish appetite on a hot day.
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