Tomato Caper And Olive Vinaigrette Recipes

ROASTED PEPPERS WITH CAPERS AND OLIVES WITH A BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• In a bowl whisk together olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Open jar of capers and drain. Open bottle of peppers, drain and cut into large strips. Transfer to shallow plate. Add some drained capers and olives to dish containing red papers. Drizzle vinaigrette over peppers.

TOMATO, CAPER AND OLIVE VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Whisk together lemon juice and mustard. Add oil in a slow stream, whisking until emulsified. Stir in tomatoes, olives, capers, and salt and pepper to taste.

TOMATO, OLIVE, AND CAPER COMPOTE

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onion, garlic, jalapeno, and celery, season with pepper, and cook, stirring, until soft and fragrant, about 4 minutes. Add the tomatoes, olives, and capers and cook, stirring, until hot, about 2 minutes more.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice and parsley.

GRILLED SEAFOOD WITH TOMATO, CAPER AND OLIVE VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Prepare grill for cooking. (If grilling seafood right after pizzas, mound live coals in center and add enough new briquets to evenly cover bottom of grill. Allow them 15 to 20 minutes to heat up.)
• Plunge live lobsters headfirst into an 8-quart pot of boiling salted water. Cook, covered, 4 minutes from time they enter water (lobsters will be only partially cooked) and transfer with tongs to a colander to drain and cool.
• Twist tails off each lobster and break off claws at body, discarding body. Halve tails lengthwise (including shells) with kitchen shears and lightly crack claws. (Do not remove tail or claw meat from shells.)
• Put clams in a disposable aluminum pie plate and drizzle with 1 tablespoon oil.
• Snip shells of shrimp down center of backs with kitchen shears, from wide end down to last tail section, and devein.
• Pat lobsters, shrimp, scallops, and fish dry, then brush with remaining 4 tablespoons oil and season with salt and pepper.
• Put lobster claws and tails (cut sides up), shrimp, and clams (in pie plate) on rack of grill, 5 to 6 inches over glowing coals, and cover grill. Cook, turning once, until just cooked through, about 5 minutes for claws (liquid will bubble at open ends), 5 to 6 minutes for tails and shrimp (meat will be opaque), and 6 to 8 minutes for clams, or until opened (discard any unopened ones).
• Transfer as cooked to a platter and keep warm, covered.
• Put scallops and fish in center of rack and cover grill. Cook, turning once, until just cooked through and meat is opaque, about 4 minutes for scallops and about 12 minutes for fish. Transfer with a large metal spatula to platter.
• Mound bulgur salad in center of 8 plates and arrange seafood on top and around it. Spoon over some vinaigrette (serve remainder on the side) and sprinkle seafood and bulgur with pine nuts.

CAPER VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Combine mustard, salt, peppr, and vinegar in a small bowl.
• Whiskk in olive oil until well blended.
• Stir in capers.
• Enjoy!

LIME CAPER VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, parsley, 1 tablespoon of water, and Tabasco.
• Stir in the capers, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper, and sugar. The vinaigrette will keep, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.