{"id":3590,"date":"2025-04-26T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2025-04-26T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:16:00","slug":"caponata-siciliana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2025\/04\/26\/caponata-siciliana\/","title":{"rendered":"Caponata Siciliana."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yum!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First tasted it at Molly and Enrico&#8217;s  a couple of years ago and loved it. Enrico was kind enough to make a bowl of it for Florek&#8217;s birthday party and it was so popular I barely got to taste it. So I figured it was time to have a go at it myself. Luca Pappagallo was consulted, as was Enrico and this afternoon I made it. And I love it. And Florek loves it too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started with a large white onion, roughly chopped , a carrot and a celery stick, gently fried on olive oil, while in a small wok I had some oil heating up and some red and yellow peppers ready to fry. The chunks were not too small, as caponata must not turn into a mush, one needs to see what&#8217;s what. After the peppers the whole aubergine went into the oil, also cut into a medium sized chunks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the veggies were resting on kitchen towel, I added some passata to the onion and celery, seasoned with salt, added the veggies in, some dry oregano too. Green and dark olives, stoneless. And finally I increased the heat under the pan and added 2 tbsps of white wine vinegar and some sugar. Once the vinegar evaporated I checked the seasoning and it was ready to come off the heat.  Final touch should be basil, but I had none and also toasted pine nuts, super delicious, added texture and nuttiness.  My own sourdough completed the picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brava Oluta! :-))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2025\/04\/1000022844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2025\/04\/1000022844.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2025\/04\/1000022844.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2025\/04\/1000022844-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yum! First tasted it at Molly and Enrico&#8217;s a couple of years ago and loved it. Enrico was kind enough to make a bowl of it for Florek&#8217;s birthday party and it was so popular I barely got to taste it. So I figured it was time to have a go at it myself. Luca &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2025\/04\/26\/caponata-siciliana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caponata Siciliana.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}