Free Recipe Red Pepper Caponata
Recipe Type: M Recipes
Recipe Preparation: cook
Cooking Ingredients for Red Pepper Caponata Recipe
1 Onion; thinly sliced
1 Red bell pepper; cored and
-chopped
3 Garlic cloves thinly sliced;
-and
1 Garlic clove finely chopped
3 tb Extra virgin olive oil; plus
1 tb Olive oil; if desired
Salt; to taste
5 Ripe tomatoes with juice;
-fresh or canned
1/4 Jalapeno chile; seeded and
-minced
1 pn Cumin
1 pn Turmeric
1 pn Ginger
1 pn Saffron threads
1/8 ts Fennel seeds OR 1/4-bulb
-fennel; diced
2 tb Sugar; or as desired
1 tb Drained capers; or more to
-taste
10 Mediterranean olives; green
-or black, pitted and cut
-into halves
2 tb Raisins
3 tb Lemon juice; or more to
-taste
1 tb Chopped fresh marjoram
-and/or parsley
Red Pepper Caponata Preparation
Lightly saute the onion, peppers and sliced garlic in the olive oil until they soften; sprinkle with salt as they cook. Add the tomatoes, jalapeno, cumin, turmeric, ginger, saffron, fennel and sugar; cook for 10 minutes or so, until thickened and saucelike. Stir in the capers, olives, raisins and lemon juice. Taste for seasoning; you want a sweet- sour-spicy balance. Adjust the sugar, lemon juice and spices accordingly. Stir in the marjoram and/or parsley and the reserved chopped garlic, taste for seasoning and set aside to cool. Serve as a sauce with the chicken, or as a spread for crostini. Serves 4. PER (4th) SERVING: 185 calories, 2 g protein, 21 g carbohydrate, 12 g fat (2 g saturated), 0 mg cholesterol, 281 mg sodium, 3 g fiber. Excerpt from SF Chronicle 05/06/98 Food Section see www.sfgate.com ; Busted by HANNEMAN Notes: This is a variation on the classic Sicilian recipe, using peppers instead of eggplant. A caponata is sweet and sour, and very savory, much like a contemporary European chutney. This one is spicy, too – a small dab on the citrus-spiced chicken breasts enlivens it brilliantly. Recipe by: Marlena Spieler, San Francisco Chronicle (1998) Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by Kitpath <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu> on May 07, 1998
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Recipe Serves: 4
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