Capers are like the vegetarian’s bacon. Like olives, they punch salt into any dish they are added to — perfect for a simple green salad. Though I like having them retain some texture you will get the best results for this lemon caper dressing recipe if you can at least partially liquify the capers. All the better to slink down the spine of every leaf and bring that lovely pickled flavour to your salad.
(makes ~1/3 cup)
2 tsp capers
1 lemon juiced
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
a pinch of freshly ground pepper
In a small food processor combine all ingredients and pulse until capers are no longer whole. Taste and adjust pepper as necessary. The capers are likely to give you plenty of salt.
This dressing is great on a simple salad as it really bumps up the flavour.
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I love capers as a condiment and component of a dressing. You rocked this one.
This is perfect! I have a ton of capers in the frig and I jut got a ton of lettuce from my CSA pickup. Thanks!
Looks great!
Even being a non-vegetarian, I think capers are WAY BETTER than bacon! Awesome dressing. I wouldn’t have thought to puree the capers!
hmm i think i’ve had capers only a handful of times. they definitely need to make a comeback in my life, especially as a salt lover
Even in winter that salad looks amazing….can always add new dressing recipes to my repertoir!
I recently discovered that I LOVE capers…this dressing would be right up my alley!
I was looking for a light dressing for tonight’s salad (with Chicken Cordon Bleu) and this fits the bill perfectly! Thanks for the recipe!
I hope it goes well! Thanks Sarah