Best Caper Mint Sauce Recipes

Grilled Baby Artichokes with Caper-Mint Sauce image

Provided by Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez

Yield Makes 6 (side dish) servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
6 flat anchovy fillets, drained, patted dry, and minced
2 1/2 tablespoons drained capers, rinsed and finely chopped
1/4 cup finely chopped mint
1 tablespoon white-wine vinegar
For artichokes:
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
12 baby artichokes (3 1/2 by 2 inches; see cook's note, below; 1/2 pound total)
2 tablespoons olive oil

Steps:

Make sauce:
Stir together all sauce ingredients with pepper to taste. Trim and cook artichokes: Combine 1 qt cold water and lemon juice in a large bowl. Working with 1 artichoke at a time, bend back outer leaves until they snap off close to base and discard several more layers of leaves in same manner until exposed leaves are pale green at top and pale yellow at base. Trim pointed tips of leaves with kitchen shears, then cut a thin slice from end of stem to expose a fresh cross section. Trim dark green fibrous parts from base and stem of artichoke, being careful not to break off stem. Halve artichoke lengthwise. Remove fuzzy center and any pointed inner leaves. Put in bowl of lemon water.
Drain artichokes, then cook in a large pot of boiling salted water (1 Tbsp salt for 5 qt water) until tender, about 8 minutes. Drain and transfer to an ice bath to stop cooking. Drain well.
Grill artichokes:
Prepare a grill for direct-heat cooking over medium-hot charcoal (medium-high heat for gas).
Toss artichokes with oil in a bowl. Oil grill rack, then grill artichokes, cut sides down, covered only if using a gas grill, turning once, until golden brown in spots, 6 to 8 minutes. Serve drizzled with sauce.

Caper-Mint Sauce image

Provided by duonyte

Categories Sauces

Time 15m

Yield 8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 6

1/2 cup salt-packed capers, rinsed well
2 cups of fresh mint
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup minced shallot, about 2 large
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

Steps:

Pulse capers in a food processor until roughly chopped.
Add mint, lemon zest and juice, and shallots, and pulse until the mint is roughly chopped.
Add the olive oil in a slow, steady stream, pulsing until combined but still of a coarse texture.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 137.1, Fat 13.8, SaturatedFat 1.9, Sodium 262.7, Carbohydrate 3.9, Fiber 1.9, Sugar 0.2, Protein 1.1