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Capers Recipes

14 recipes with capers for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

14 recipes

Carpaccio with arugula, beef and caper — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Carpaccio

Carpaccio is an exquisite Italian dish consisting of thinly sliced raw meat seasoned with olive oil, lemon juice and other ingredients.

18 min335 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Olive Tapenade with anchovy, basil and caper — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Olive Tapenade

Briny Provençal paste of crushed olives, capers, anchovies, and garlic pounded with olive oil. Bold and salty, it transforms plain bread or grilled vegetables into something memorable. A little goes a long way.

13 min160 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Solyanka with beef, sausage and pickled cucumbers — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Soups

Solyanka

What makes a soup solyanka is the combination nothing else has: three or four cured meats in one pot, brined pickles with a splash of their brine, olives, capers, and a slice of lemon dropped in at the table. The result is sour, salty and smoky at once, thick enough that the spoon meets resistance. It began as a tavern soup built from whatever cured meat was on hand, which is still the honest way to make it — a lone leftover sausage end belongs in this pot. Sour cream and dill go on top, never into the pot.

170 min380 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Sea Bass Baked in Paper with sea bass, lemon and tomato — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Sea Bass Baked in Paper

Paper-baked sea bass is a gourmet dish. Fresh sea bass is wrapped in parchment paper along with aromatic herbs, lemon and olive oil.

40 min275 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Spicy Fish with fish, garlic and onion — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Spicy Fish

This dish combines the spiciness of jalapeños, the sourness of tomatoes and capers, and the delicate flavor of fish, characteristic of Mexican coastal cuisine.

40 min325 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Stewed Fish with fish, tomato and garlic — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Stewed Fish

This recipe combines the tenderness of fish with the flavor of Mediterranean herbs and spices, as well as the sourness of tomatoes and olives. Light yet rich and flavorful.

23 min200 kcal2 serves

🥑Keto⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Caponata with eggplant, tomato and celery — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Caponata

Eggplant cubes fried golden, then simmered with tomatoes, celery, capers, and olives in a sweet-sour agrodolce sauce. This Sicilian staple tastes better the next day, once all the flavors have melded and deepened.

45 min90 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Baked Cod with cod, butter and garlic — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Baked Cod

Cod fillets baked at high heat with garlic butter, capers, and lemon. Flaky inside, golden on top, done in under 30 minutes.

25 min260 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Foil Packet Fish with white fish fillets, cherry tomatoes and olive oil — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Foil Packet Fish

White fish fillets sealed in foil with cherry tomatoes, olives, capers, zucchini and lemon. Everything steams together in 15 minutes — on the grill or in the oven. Zero cleanup.

30 min270 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Eggs Royale (Smoked Salmon Benedict) with eggs, smoked salmon and English muffins — UK recipe

🇬🇧UKMedium

Breakfast and Brunch

Eggs Royale (Smoked Salmon Benedict)

Toasted English muffins with cold smoked salmon, perfectly poached eggs, and hollandaise. Eggs Royale is Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon in place of Canadian bacon — same structure, slightly more refined flavor, and arguably easier to time because the salmon needs no cooking. The difficulty is coordinating three things that need to be ready simultaneously: the poached eggs, the warm hollandaise, and the toasted muffins. The order and timing matter. Read through the whole recipe before you start.

20 min560 kcal2 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Pasta alla Puttanesca with spaghetti, anchovy fillets and olives — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Pasta alla Puttanesca

A bold, briny Neapolitan pasta sauce built entirely from pantry staples: anchovies, olives, capers, garlic, and canned tomatoes. The name translates roughly as 'in the manner of a prostitute' — the exact origin is disputed but the dish is genuinely Neapolitan, from the Spanish Quarter, and dates to at least the mid-20th century. What makes it work is the combination of four distinct salty elements — the anchovy dissolves into the oil, the capers add a floral brine, the olives add a fruity richness, the tomato provides acidity — and none of them taste quite right alone, but together they produce something complex and deeply savory in under twenty minutes. Do not worry about the anchovies: they disappear completely into the oil and leave no fishy taste. Only their umami remains.

25 min490 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Grilled Whole Fish (Mediterranean Style) with whole fish, olive oil and lemon — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Grilled Whole Fish (Mediterranean Style)

Grilling a whole fish over live fire is the defining seafood technique of the Mediterranean — practised from the Greek islands to the Spanish costa, from Turkey to Morocco — and it is dramatically simpler than it appears. A whole fish holds its moisture better than fillets (the skin and bones act as a self-basting, self-insulating shell), cooks more evenly, and has infinitely more flavor from the bones. The keys are three: the scoring (diagonal cuts through the skin so heat penetrates the flesh without waiting for it to tunnel in from the ends), the stuffing (fresh herbs and lemon slices that steam the interior with aromatic vapour as the fish cooks), and leaving the fish undisturbed for 7 to 8 minutes before the first flip so a full char crust forms and the fish releases cleanly from the grates. Sea bass (branzino), sea bream, red snapper, and whole trout are the best candidates: white-fleshed, mild, firm-skinned, and sized for individual portions.

40 min320 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy💪High protein

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