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Caponata

Sicilian sweet-and-sour aubergine salad with celery, capers, olives and pine nuts.

Caponata — illustrative food image

About Caponata

Caponata is a Sicilian aubergine dish with a sweet-and-sour character. Visit Sicily's version combines fried aubergine with celery, onion, tomatoes, capers, olives and pine nuts.

Vinegar and sugar give the vegetables their characteristic sharp-sweet balance. Capers and olives bring savoury intensity, while extra virgin olive oil enriches the celery.

Soft aubergine and tomato surround pieces of celery and the firmer olives and pine nuts. Basil finishes the saucy mixture, which retains the distinct shapes of its vegetables.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Celery, Pine nuts.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

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Ingredients in Caponata

Visit Sicily's aubergine caponata with celery, olives and pine nuts.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Aubergine: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Coarse salting salt and subsequent celery-water salt are one input; later salt grain size unspecified.
  • Celery: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Celery source-confirmed
  • Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit salted celery-blanching water.
  • Onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Capers: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact caper preparation and preservation medium unprovided.
  • Olives: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Colour and preservation/product formula unprovided.
  • Pine nuts: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Pine nuts source-confirmed
  • Tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Extra virgin olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit celery frying oil. Onion-sauté oil is unspecified and may share one of the named oils; no third distinct oil input is established.
  • Seed oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit aubergine frying oil; seed species and product formula unprovided. Anonymous onion-oil allocation remains unresolved.
  • Vinegar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Vinegar type/product unprovided.
  • Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Basil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed

Origins & food traditions

Caponata belongs to Sicilian cooking, with distinct versions associated with Palermo, Agrigento, Catania, Messina and Trapani.

Countries

  • Italy
  • ItalyCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Caponata (Sicilian saucy aubergine salad) — Visit Sicily, regional tourism department