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Caponata

Caponata: what it is and where to eat it

A Sicilian vegetable dish consisting of fried eggplant and vegetables in a sweet and sour sauce.

27 restaurants on Tastavo serve it

Cuisine
Italian (Sicilian)

Typical ingredients

  • eggplant
  • celery
  • capers
  • olives
  • vinegar
  • sugar

History of the dish

Italy

Caponata
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Origin
Italy
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Caponata (Sicilian: capunata) is a Sicilian dish consisting of chopped, fried eggplant and other vegetables, seasoned with olive oil, tomato sauce, celery, olives, and capers, in an agrodolce (sweet and sour) sauce. Variants add carrots, bell peppers, potatoes, pine nuts, and raisins.

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Where to eat it

Valencia

Palermo

Dresden

Zurich

Turin

Bari

Vienna

Berlin

Genoa

Ghent

Hamburg

Rome

  • Arancina Matta Caponata (Melanzane, olive, capperi, sedano, pomodoro, in agrodolce)€4

Florence

Warsaw

Palma

Valletta

Verona

Split

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