"Capers" from nasturtium

"Capers" from nasturtium

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Ingredients
green unripe nasturtium fruit
salt	1 tbsp. l.
sugar	1 tbsp. l.
water (boiling water)	500ml
vinegar 9%	2-3 st. l.
Provencal herbs (optional)	1 tbsp. l.

Cooking method

• In the culinary recipes of some dishes (for example, pickle, hodgepodge, "tartar" sauce), capers are mentioned. Capers are the fruits of an Italian bush; in our area, an exotic product is expensive. But we have a domestic “analogue”, tasty, affordable and easy to prepare. These are pickled green unripe capsules (fruits) of nasturtium. Nasturtium is not only beautiful but also edible. Leaves and flowers are used for cooking, which are added to salads and sandwiches. The fruits should be green or milky green before they begin to turn yellow.
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• I collect these fruits for several days (within 5-7 days), put them in a jar with a saline solution (1 tsp per 100 ml of water). Then I drain the solution and fill it with hot marinade from the given recipe (I add vinegar at the last minute), the marinade should completely cover the "capers" and be 1-2 cm higher, close the lid.
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• You can add new "capers" to this jar, after filling them twice with boiling water for 2-3 minutes (drain the boiling water and add the "capers" to the jar). May be added until the marinade is completely covering the fruit. Then you can heat the jar in the microwave at full power for 3 minutes, close and store at room temperature, or not warm at all, but store in the refrigerator.

Note

You can make a seasoning for meat that can be used for pasta as well. It contains tomatoes, bell peppers, a few squeezed cloves of garlic, dry or fresh herbs (coriander, basil) and a tablespoon of capers (whole or chopped). Vegetables and spices are cut and poured with olive oil.
The famous "Tartar" cold sauce is traditionally prepared with capers. At home, you can quickly prepare one of its options by whisking mayonnaise, sour cream, several boiled yolks and squeezed garlic into a lush homogeneous mass with a blender. After that, capers cut into pieces, chopped pickled or pickled cucumbers and herbs are added to the sauce.
And of course, it is practically impossible to cook pickle or hodgepodge without capers.

Well, you give Lina! Where do so many useful and interesting, and most importantly simple and tasty, recipes come from?)) You are super good! Although mine do not eat it and therefore I will not do it yet, and for some reason I have not seen nasturtium flowers for a long time ... But I will add the recipe to your bookmarks. You never know come in handy all the same)))

Lina, you are an artist! It is not only delicious, but also beautiful!

Linochka, finally, you showed them to us and told us how to cook! Thank you dear ! How beautiful it is! Now you need to grow nasturtium. Something I haven't done for a long time. And I took the recipe to bookmarks!

[Tatyana]

Where do so many useful and interesting, and most importantly simple and tasty, recipes come from?))

Tatyana, Thank you! It's just that everyone has been asking for a long time, but I only reached the Internet yesterday. And I have not just a lot of nasturtium, but a lot (several tires, seated almost exclusively with nasturtium). Nice and tasty - leaves in a salad with egg and cucumber, flowers with zucchini and tomato, and boxes in pickle and hodgepodge (I have cans of pickled cucumbers and sauerkraut).

Lina, you are an artist! It is not only delicious, but also beautiful!

Ira, thanks! It is delicious, beautiful and healthy!

I have an art school behind me

Oh, what a beauty. And I just started picking nasturtium on the weekend and putting it in a jar. I wanted to dig a boarding school, look for a recipe. And you have already done everything, thank you very much. I will study now.

finally, you showed them to us and told us how to cook!

Luda, and I have long said that it is simple and very tasty!

[Elena]

Elena, it's very simple, but delicious! From my point of view, tastier than real ones.

[Lina,]

Lina,useful recipe. This year I planted nasturtium, but somehow it didn't grow. It was dark for her. Next year, if we are alive, I will definitely plant and try. Thank you.

[Angela]

Angela, here's another reason to survive!

Well, I'm right, although I didn't know it! It felt ......... I somehow kept cutting nasturtium leaves into a salad with my dacha ... WILL PLANT FOR THIS RECIPE!

I knew that nasturtium can be used. But I don’t grow, now I’ll think. Linochka, thanks for the wonderful recipe. And the nasturtium is really very beautiful in your photo. Is it difficult to grow? Through seedlings. I'll be puzzled next year

WILL PLANT FOR THIS RECIPE!

To your health and bon appetit!

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, what an easy to prepare and wonderful recipe, thanks!
Now capers vapsche stand like an airplane wing, but here they are straight for nothing, such a delicacy !!!

Is it difficult to grow?

You soak the seeds for a day and stick them in a permanent place in early May. All! She, however, does not like "rich" lands. And I have loam, she is fine!

Lina, can you find out your attitude to vinegar? After all, there are a lot of blanks with him, I tried to make pickled cucumbers with red currants this year ... instead of vinegar .... should it work?

Here on the "rich land" there were gorgeous leaves for salad!

and here it is straight almost for nothing, such a delicacy !!!

Aha, for nothing, tastier than real ones, and even beautiful! Vesch! And you don't need to strain too much (my format).

pickles with red currants ... instead of vinegar .... should it work?

Will go great! Although I am calm about vinegar, since acetic acid is a natural and necessary stage of cellular metabolism in the body, one of the final stages of the Krebs Cycle, without which there is no energy and respiration in cells. And accordingly, it is useful and necessary for the body (within reasonable limits, of course).

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, thanks for the composition of the marinade! You reminded that it is time to collect nasturtium. Can the flowers be somehow preserved until winter? Have you tried saving? Didn't know that leaves are also edible ...)

Thanks for the answer! Interesting! Now I'm reading about this cycle ...

[Anastasia]

Can the flowers be somehow preserved until winter?

Anastasia, you can also pickle buds and flowers of nasturtium. But, if the buds can be used as capers, then the flowers lose their color and shape, but not their taste. In general, I put flowers on a sandwich with cottage cheese - beautiful and tasty.

This year I have 4 nasturtium seeds, planted dry in dry ground, grew into SUCH thickets !!! Almost my roses were scored with their lashes !!! And it turns out that they could be eaten ....... Straight culinary shock for me, honestly !!!

Almost my roses were scored with their lashes !!! And it turns out that they could be eaten ..

Light, that's why I plant those that grow 2-3 meters long in double tires. They are like a fountain in all directions from these tires. And the leaves in the salad (they are like watercress), flowers are also on the case, but the boxes - for capers. Nasturtium contains mustard oil, which contains a bunch of Omega 3 and Omega 6 and has anti-inflammatory, diuretic, antiseptic, antitussive, expectorant, diuretic, laxative, anthelmintic, tonic, anti-tumor, tonic, antibacterial, antifungal effect. How is it?

Light, that's why I plant those that grow 2-3 meters long in double tires. They are like a fountain in all directions from these tires. And the leaves in the salad (they are like watercress), flowers are also on the case, but the boxes - for capers. Nasturtium contains mustard oil, which contains a bunch of Omega 3 and Omega 6 and has anti-inflammatory, diuretic, antiseptic, antitussive, expectorant, diuretic, laxative, anthelmintic, tonic, anti-tumor, tonic, antibacterial, antifungal effect. How is it?

I don't grow anything myself ... But, damn it, I'll plant it next year and feed all my own nasturtium)))

and I will feed all my own nasturtium)))

To your health and bon appetit! And beauty to the house!

... and has anti-inflammatory, diuretic, antiseptic, antitussive, expectorant, diuretic, laxative, anthelmintic, tonic, antitumor, tonic, antibacterial, antifungal effect. How is it?

No way. This can be written even for any product, it's fashionable. And when they write such a long type of effect, it means that it practically does not exist. Is it a lope to eat nasturtium, to have an antifungal effect ??? They drink pills for six months to get rid of the fungus, and then nasturtium ...
No offense, okay?

About mustard oil, I believe unconditionally what it contains. Tomorrow I'm going to the dacha, if I didn't burn out at +37, then I'll try it.

[Linadoc]

I waited for the recipe! Especially this year I installed tires, planted nasturtium, and fiddled with someone in the requirement of the recipe, it turns out that everything is simple, but I thought ... Thank you, dear Linadoc, went to the thickets of nasturtium, look for what I have there?

but I forgot about the leaves and flowers, old sclerotic

[svetta]

svetta, a highly qualified person, a DOCTOR with a capital letter, writes to you about the benefits of nasturtium, and not for the sake of a word of mouth! No offense, okay?

[elena kadiewa]

elena kadiewa, I in no way detract from the benefits of nasturtium, and even more so I do not doubt the qualifications of the DOCTOR I just wrote my thoughts. I am not touchy.

Lina! After our long winter conversations, I planted nasturtium. Well, I think I'll make some salad with her, and make Russian capers ... But she didn't like it in my pots, and she practically didn't grow up. So I will collect seeds from this nasturtium, but only for sowing next year, and let's hope that this season is not the last one. So thanks for the recipe, let it wait for better times!

[svetta]

svetta, these actions of nasturtium really are, only it must be taken every day as a therapeutic and prophylactic agent. That is why I did not begin to describe its action in the recipe, we are making a delicacy, and not discussing a drug. Do it for health for fun!
Veronica, so I said that it is necessary to put her in tires a lot! Here the headman listened, and now, with a delicacy ... she is being treated.

nasturtium loves very fertile, loose soil and so that the roots warm up well, on compost heaps, tires, hills. On the trail. year beware of nasturtium)).

[Anastasia]

Anastasia, you can also pickle buds and flowers of nasturtium. But, if the buds can be used as capers, then the flowers lose their color and shape, but not their taste. In general, I put flowers on a sandwich with cottage cheese - beautiful and tasty.

Thank you! I checked it today, but there are still no boxes. I have it for a long time this year.
And thanks for the tire idea! I considered such flowerpots "so-so design" ...)) But I thought that it was with nasturtiums that tires would look great! I went to paint next year ...))))

Linochka, thanks for the recipe! This year I will try to do it. I just started blooming Nasturtium.

How long will I have to collect these boxes for a jar of capers? Today I collected a handful, put it in a saline solution. And can we preserve the buds together with the boxes, but in a saline solution the buds will not become limp?

Lenok, I love your nervousness
Collect, fill, do; do not irritate anyone, tomorrow saved honey, God help you!

It's not nervousness, it's hysteria so inhibited ...

Lenok has already bathed and bought all the children, tomorrow he saved the honey! Tomorrow I'll start spinning honey. And today I sanctified everything and bathed myself in the pool. Super water - 38 *, everyone swam with pleasure!

[Linadoc]

Linadoc, I wanted to clarify, I typed capers from our godmother yesterday, filled it with saline, today I want to close it, tell me. and the marinade for which jar is it designed, volume?
Thank you!

Probably 0.7 (marinade + salt, sugar, capers), but I did it for a full amount. until.

[elena kadiewa]

elena kadiewa, Lena, thank you!

and the marinade for which jar is it designed, volume?

I honestly did not measure. But I usually do it in a 0.7L jar.

Probably 0.7

Lenok, well, you're a psychic!

Well, who are you going with!
You will look home, otherwise I will leave without saying goodbye!

I'm doing it! Barely found, the recipe crawled away. I closed a couple of jars with Provencal herbs. I love this mixture very much. Something nasturtium I have a little this year ...

[Anastasia]

Anastasia, well, well done, then, when you will make rassolnichki (I have a recipe with giblets and fish), and then Olivier salad, you will remember me with a kind word!

Made capers, they changed the color, should it be so? This jar used all the recipe marinade.

Ksyu, my color changed too

I did it too, only very little, I only had 2 nasturtium bushes. I'll try and plant more for the next year. Thanks for the recipe! Girls, and how to use them - separately or cook how and with what