Talk:Caponata

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method[edit]

Ingredienst OK, but method is not Sicilian - we cook every vegetable separately. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.156.49.142 (talk) 21:22, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Recipe[edit]

Can someone transwiki this to Wikicookbooks?

== Recipe ==

A classic recipe uses the following ingredients:
* [[eggplant]]
* [[bell pepper]]
* [[celery]]
* [[tomato]]
* [[olive]]
* [[caper]]
* [[pine fruit]]
* [[olive oil|extra virgin olive oil]]
* [[vinegar]]
* [[sugar]]
* [[salt]]

== Preparation ==
* Dice the eggplant and slice the pepper and fry it partially in a pan, and put it aside.
* Dice the tomato, and get rid of its tomato juice, and chop the celery up and then mix it with all the other ingredients which you should then cook for 20 minutes.
* Then add the pepper and eggplant and finish cooking it. Dissolve some sugar in a dessertspoon of vinegar and add this to the cooking mixture.

Add salt and pepper and serve cold.

A variation uses the addition of fried potato.

JFD 16:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dish Use[edit]

"Today, caponata is typically used as a side dish for fish dishes and sometimes as an appetizer, but since the 1700s it has also been used as a main course." This doesn't make a lot of sense, as someone who doesn't know about the dish, it would seem that the whole line should be removed? 217.150.114.76 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 10:40, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology[edit]

To add to etymology section: this term might derive from capone, a Sicilian word for a fish (called lampuga, the mahi-mahi, species Coryphaena hippurus) that was once included in the dish. This theory suggests the dish was originally served with this fish, and eventually the name stuck even after the fish itself disappeared from the recipe. Another theory points to the Latin word caponium, which referred to taverns frequented by sailors. The idea here is that caponata was a common dish served in these establishments. Yet others suggest it might derive from the Catalan language, or from the Greek word capto meaning "to cut," referencing the chopped ingredients in the dish. 98.123.38.211 (talk) 16:46, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]