Capers. Recipes of unusual dishes on your table

Interesting taste and no less interesting story with capers. Some people consider them to be olives, some are cucumbers, in fact, capers are buds of an incredibly prickly bush called Kapersnik. His homeland is Central Asia and the Mediterranean. Some species grow in the Crimean rocks and in the Caucasus. This is a very hardy plant, it will easily withstand heat and salt water, and can also grow on bare stones.

Today, it is not such a curiosity as before, and if you want, you can easily try to make capers. Recipes with them can be found in large quantities. In the store you can buy not only fresh buds, but also marinated capers. If before eating you eat a handful of capers, you will have a great appetite. These fruits are rich in fiber, vitamins and organic acids. Capers, whose taste resembles a salted cucumber, is often used in salads. Without heat treatment, they retain all the necessary useful substances.

The main area of application of these amazing buds is cooking. Capers marinated and salted have a tart, sharp, sour, slightly mustard taste, while they give the food a spicy taste. Also add piquancy to dishes from meat and fish capers, recipes for which are constantly being improved.

If in the store you bought capers, the taste of which you do not like because of the marinade, try to do another, it's very simple. It is necessary to warm olive oil on a water bath, adding herbs to it: thyme, rosemary, oregano, oregano. Pour the marinade, which was capers in a jar and wash them thoroughly several times. Dry well and put in warm oil. Wait until the butter and capers cool down, and put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 days. It is to such a taste should be the right caper. Recipes with them are used in many restaurants, but this does not stop you from applying them in your household. Buds of this plant are rarely used entirely, usually capers are ground with herbs or salt. This is done so that their salty and strong enough taste is evenly distributed throughout the dish.

To preserve all the flavor and specific flavor, add capers (a recipe means any) at the end of cooking. In this case, you do not even have to use salt.

How to store capers? If they are pickled, then do not empty the marinade. Capers must be stored in it and taken out as needed. In the refrigerator they can stand up to 9 months. If you have capers salted or dry, they can be stored in the kitchen, not placing in the refrigerator, up to 6 months. Capers can be combined with very many products, but the most advantageous combinations are:

• With mayonnaise
• With olive or butter
• With seafood
• With smoked fish
• With chicken and lamb
• With tomatoes and bell peppers
• With eggs

If you do not know how to prepare capers, the recipes will help you:

1. Vietnamese salad with capers

Required:

- rice - 100 grams

- pistachios - 100 grams

- orange - 1 piece

- capers - 50 grams

- olive oil, basil, mint

Rice should be boiled, it should be crumbly. Orange well wash and peel off with a small grater. Separately, squeeze out the juice. Pistachios need to be crushed to almost a powdery state. Green need to break your hands. Cut out capers finely. Now mix all the ingredients and season with the sauce you make from olive oil and orange juice. The taste of a salad is very unusual!

2. Canape with capers

Required:

- red salted fish - 250 grams

- sweet pepper - 1 piece

- capers - 1 pot

- skewers for canapes

The fish should be cut into thin slices, and the pepper should be cut into small pieces. Now pepper wrap in a slice of fish, on top you have a bud of capers and fasten everything with a skewer. Beautiful and very tasty!