Our Basil Caper Dressing is an aromatic, tangy, salty fusion loaded with umami flavour. A great dairy-free alternative to Caesar dressing and perfect on leafy greens, roasted veg, grilled chicken or fish.
Bursting with vibrant flavours, this dressing adds a zesty and herbaceous kick to your favorite greens. With its aromatic basil and briny caper combination, this dressing is a game-changer, say goodbye to bland salads
Ingredients Needed
How to Make It
Place all the dressing ingredients into a small food processor and season
Blitz until well combined, if it is too thick add 3-4 tablespoons of water to loosen it.
Taste and adjust seasonings according to your liking.
Pour into a sealed glass container in your fridge.
What Can I Use It On?
- Wonderful on leafy green salads.
- Especially great with bitter, peppery greens such as Rocket/arugula, radicchio and witlof/Belgian endive.
- Oh so tasty on tomato salads, slice some gorgeous heirloom tomatoes into rounds and drizzle it on top
- Try our Basil Caper Dressing as an alternative dairy-free dressing to use on your Caesar salad.
- Drizzle it on blanched green beans and brassicas such as broccoli, broccolini, cauliflower or romanesco.
- Great on grilled asparagus and poached eggs.
- Sensational mixed in grain salads such as pearl barley, couscous, burghul, or freekeh.
- Great dip for your meatballs and arancini.
- Toss it through some sliced cherry tomatoes for a sensational topping on bruschetta.
- Use it as a sauce on grilled chicken or fish.
- Great to use in sandwiches or wraps.
Tips and Questions
What Are Capers
- Are buds picked from a shrubby bush before they have flowered. If they are left to mature they are then called caper-berries and look like green olives with a stem.
- There are two ways of preserving capers either packed in salt or in brine. First they are dried in the sun and then pickled in a either vinegary brine or in salt.
What Do Capers Taste Like?
Capers have a tangy, vinegary taste that can be attributed to how they are packaged as they are kept in a briny liquid in order to preserve them. They can be likened to green olives.
How Much Does It Make?
- Our Basil Caper Dressing recipe makes approximately one cup or 16 tablespoons of dressing, the nutritional information has been calculated per tablespoon.
- This is enough for one large salad that serves eight people or two small salads.
How Long Can I Store It For?
- As this is a fresh style of dressing with basil that tends to go brown and bitter once it is cut up I would use it up as quickly as possible.
- It will only keep for a maximum of two days if stored in a glass sealed container in the fridge.
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Equipment
- Small Food Processor or High-Speed / Bullet Blender
Ingredients
- 1 cup basil leaves torn
- ¼ cup capers drained and well rinsed
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup lemon juice freshly squeezed
- 1 cloves garlic minced
Instructions
- Place all the dressing ingredients into a small food processor, season and blitz until well combined.
- If it is too thick add 3-4 tablespoons of water to loosen it.
- Taste and adjust seasonings according to your liking.
- Pour into a sealed glass container in your fridge and it should last 2 days at the most.
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