Capers bring a Mediterranean flavor to just about whatever you put them in, and they are just lovely with tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, and other flavors. From chicken piccata to sauces and dressings, these paleo capers recipes will have you running to the kitchen—you can be sure of it.
1. Healthy Chicken Piccata With Capers
Chicken piccata is traditionally a creamy dish that isn’t necessarily the picture of healthy eating. But it doesn’t have to be that way! This healthy chicken piccata is made with tapioca flour, capers, garlic, onion, chicken broth, fresh parsley, and more.
Photo: A Nutritionist Eats
2. Turkey Burgers With Caper Aoili
These turkey burgers have shallots, garlic, and capers cooked right into them for extra bursts of unexpected flavor, and they’re served with a lovely lemon-garlic-caper aioli. You’ll want to use homemade mayonnaise if you can’t find a store-bought version that’s paleo.
3. Chicken Satimbocca With Steamed Broccoli
This simple meal is perfect for busy weeknights when you barely have time to cook, and it’ll look and taste like you spent hours on it! You’ll need chicken thighs, artichoke hearts, chicken broth, capers, grass-fed butter, prosciutto, broccoli, and olive oil.
4. Sauteed Caper and Garlic Cabbage With Lemon
Filled with flavors of garlic and lemon, this simple side dish or light lunch will take you straight to the Mediterranean. Capers and red cabbage (green would work but isn’t as pretty) are the ideal flavor and texture combination in this dish.
5. Pan Fried Haddock With Lemon and Capers
You can use haddock or any firm white fish for this recipe, which takes all of its charm from the lovely lemon caper topping including garlic, preserved lemon, ghee or avocado oil, sea salt, and pink peppercorns if you have them. This dish is delicious and beautiful!
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6. Caper and Anchovy Miracle Sauce
This miracle sauce is good on just about anything you can think of from hard boiled eggs to chicken to vegetables. You’ll need anchovy fillets packed in olive oil, capers, red pepper flakes, lemon juice, olive oil, Italian parsley, and freshly ground black pepper.
7. Roasted Chicken Thighs With Capers and Olives
This dish is absolutely delicious, and it’s AIP friendly, so it’s something everyone can enjoy! Make it with capers and sun dried black olives for extra texture and flavor, and include quash, zucchini, and cauliflower. This could be a great one-pot dinner meal!
8. Scrambled Eggs With Lox and Capers
These eggs are so flavorful, you’ll want to eat them for lunch and dinner as well as breakfast? And why couldn’t you! Well, maybe not all in the same day. To make these, you’ll need capers, parsley, coconut oil, tomatoes, red onion, smoked salmon, eggs, salt, and pepper.
9. Italian Style Peppers With Capers
This capers dish includes sweet onions, yellow or orange bell peppers, red bell peppers, tomatoes, red wine or balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and sesame oil. Everything is sautéed together, making a lovely side dish that’s as much about presentation as it is about taste.
Photo: Cassidys Craveable Creations
10. Balsamic Glazed Pork Medallions With Capers
This capers dish includes sweet onions, yellow or orange bell peppers, red bell peppers, tomatoes, red wine or balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and sesame oil. Everything is sautéed together, making a lovely side dish that’s as much about presentation as it is about taste.
11. Lemon and Artichoke Chicken
This flavor combination is one of my favorites, with tart lemon, savory artichokes, and protein-rich chicken forming a healthy meal that’s great after a long day at work or after an afternoon workout. Ghee, fish sauce, and sweet onion really take this dish over the top!
12. Paleo Chicken Piccata
This chicken piccata is a slightly different take, with a crispy almond flour coating and the fabulous flavors of brown onion, crushed garlic, capers, lemon juice, parsley, and chicken stock. Cooking everything in coconut oil ensures that you’re getting maximum nutrients!
13. Roasted Cauliflower With Tomatoes and Capers
Here’s a fantastic dish that’s deceptively simple to make and will leave you craving it daily. This cauliflower, tomatoes, and capers dish is caramelized and covered with a saucy olive oil coating combined with Greek seasoning or, if you don’t have that, dried oregano.
Photo: The Clean Dish
14. Cardamom Spiced Butternut Squash Soup With Capers
This soup is silky and rich without being too heavy, and it’s laced with autumn-friendly flavors of nutmeg, cardamom, and paprika. Coconut milk makes it deeply creamy, while sautéed capers are a deliciously salty topping that you’ll want to put on ALL your soups.
15. Caponata
This vegetable dish is perfect as a side or even an entrée with eggplant, sweet bell pepper, red onion, garlic, tomato paste, capers, and lots of seasonings. Apple cider vinegar and cayenne give it a tart heat, while coconut sugar (to replace the sugar) evens out the flavors.
16. Lemon Caper Citronette
This light and easy dressing tastes so good, and it works well for a variety of different salads. You’ll make it with garlic, Dijon mustard (choose a good quality one), lemon zest, capers, extra virgin olive oil, kosher salt, and freshly cracked black pepper.
17. Roasted Salmon With Capers
If it involves salmon, I’m hooked already. This fantastic meal couldn’t be any simpler to make, too! It’s a great weeknight dinner with wild caught salmon, olive oil, kosher salt and black pepper, fresh chopped thyme, and a jar of capers. That’s all you need, plus half an hour!
Photo: Gourmande in the Kitchen
18. Quick and Spicy Tomato Vegetable Soup
This easy soup comes together super quick, and has a lovely spicy flavor to it. You’ll need crushed red pepper flakes, garlic, fennel, cauliflower, broccoli, haricots verts, salt packed capers, olives, lemon, parsley, and just a few other ingredients to make it happen.
19. Cauliflower, Snap Peas, and Tomato Salad
This easy salad has chopped capers throughout to boost the flavor, as well as cherry tomatoes, orange zest, dill, mint, cilantro, toasted hazelnuts, and a simple dressing made from garlic, whole grain mustard, Spanish sherry vinegar, walnut oil, salt, and pepper.
20. Roasted kohlrabi and Smoked Salmon Nicoise Salad
Wow, would I like to open my lunch at work to find this waiting for me? You bet! This smoked salmon salad is everything savory and delicious, and it’s full of protein—so it’s perfect for lunch if you tend to head to the gym in the afternoon. Capers, eggs, salmon, and veggies—yum!
