Tomato And Caper Sauce Recipes

TOMATO OLIVE CAPER COMPOTE

Steps:

• 1. Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onions and sauté for 5 minutes, until soft. Add the garlic and sauté for 1 minute more.
• 2. Add the tomatoes, olives, capers, and salt and cook over medium-high heat for 10-15 minutes, until most of the liquid has evaporated.
• 3. Serve over grilled chicken, fish, pasta or rice.

TOMATO SAUCE WITH CAPERS AND VINEGAR

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in a medium heavy saucepan. Add the onion. Cook, stirring often, until tender, about five minutes. Stir in the garlic. Cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in the tomatoes, basil sprig, capers, salt and pepper. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, stir and reduce the heat. Simmer 10 to 15 minutes until cooked down and very fragrant. Remove the basil sprig. Stir in the vinegar, the remaining tablespoon of olive oil and the optional parsley or basil. Taste and adjust seasonings. Serve hot or cold.

CAPER AND TOMATO BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, over medium heat, combine the shallots and wine. Season with salt and cayenne. Bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium low and simmer until the mixture reduces by half. Add the cream and continue to cook for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and whisk in the butter, a couple of pieces at a time. Season with the salt, cayenne, hot sauce and Worcestershire. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve. Place back in the saucepan and add the shallots, capers and tomatoes. Stir well and keep warm.

TOMATO AND CAPER SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stew the tomatoes, uncovered, with the chicken stock and tomato paste until thickened. Season. Stir in the capers. Correct seasoning and serve hot with the cabbage and onion tart.

CHICKEN AND CAPERS IN TOMATO SAUCE

Steps:

• Season the chicken pieces with seasoning salt (or regular salt) and pepper.
• Place the flour in a heavy plastic bag; add in chicken pieces and coat completely with flour.
• Heat oil in a large heavy skillet or Dutch oven over medium heat (I use my large electric frypan for this).
• Add in the chicken pieces to the skillet and brown for about 4 minutes on each side.
• Transfer to a plate.
• Pour off some of the fat, and leave a little in the skillet.
• Add in mushrooms, green bell peppers, chopped garlic, onion, crushed red pepper flakes and oregano; saute until onion is tender (about 10 minutes).
• Add/mix in marinara sauce, chicken broth, wine and capers.
• Return the chicken to the skillet, tossing the sauce over the chicken; bring sauce to a boil, reduce heat to medium low.
• Cover skillet and simmer until chicken is tender (about 35 minutes, or more).
• Using long tongs transfer the chicken to a large serving platter.
• Boil the sauce until slightly thickened (about another 5 minutes).
• Spoon the sauce over chicken.
• Serve with grated Parmesan cheese.
• Delicious!

CHICKEN IN TOMATO-CAPER SAUCE

Steps:

• Pound chicken breasts with a meat mallet to 1/4-in. thickness; sprinkle with pepper. In a large nonstick skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat. Brown chicken on both sides; remove from pan., In same skillet, heat remaining oil over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in tomatoes, spinach, capers, basil and cayenne. Return chicken to pan. Cook, covered, 8-10 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink., Sprinkle with cheeses. Remove from heat; let stand, covered, until cheese is melted.

CALAMARI WITH TOMATOES, CAPER BERRIES, AND BASIL

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a saute pan over medium heat. Add minced garlic and shallots, and cook until soft, about 4 minutes. Stir in tomatoes with juice, wine, water, chile, basil, orange zest, and 2 teaspoons salt. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat, and simmer gently until slightly thickened, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Meanwhile, using a kitchen mallet, pound both sides of calamari bodies a few times to tenderize, then cut crosswise into 1/2-inch rings. (Leave tentacles whole, or halve if large.)
• Add calamari and caper berries to sauce. Cook until calamari are opaque, 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Heat remaining 3 tablespoons oil in another skillet. Rub bread with garlic clove. Add clove to oil, and cook 2 minutes. Add bread, and fry, flipping once, until golden and crisp, about 1 1/2 minutes total. Put 1 slice of bread into each serving bowl, and top with calamari and sauce. Season with pepper. Drizzle with oil if desired, and garnish with basil.

SUN-DRIED TOMATO & CAPER SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt butter in saute pan.
• Add garlic to melted butter.
• Add chicken broth, worcestershire sauce, sun-dried tomatoes & capers.
• Cook until reduced.
• Spoon over meat of your choice.

BAKED FLOUNDER WITH TOMATO CAPER SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Make sauce:
• Heat oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté onion and fennel, stirring, until golden, about 8 minutes. Add garlic and sauté, stirring, 30 seconds. Add tomatoes and wine and simmer briskly until liquid is reduced by one third, about 5 minutes. Stir in capers, salt, and pepper, then transfer to a 2-quart gratin dish or other wide shallow baking dish.
• Prepare flounder:
• Stir together bread crumbs, butter, salt, and pepper with a fork until combined. Season flounder with salt and pepper, then roll each fillet, skinned side up, into a cylinder and arrange, seam side down, on top of sauce. Gently press bread crumbs onto flounder.
• Drizzle wine carefully around fish into sauce (not over fish) and bake in middle of oven until fish is just cooked through, 20 to 25 minutes.