Easy Lemon Caper Sauce
This easy, delicious lemon caper sauce recipe is perfect served with fish, chicken or meat and makes a fantastic salad dressing.
Ingredients needed
Ingredients needed- Capers. Salt-packed or brined capers.
- Lemon. Lemon juice and zest.
- Parsley.
- Chives.
- Olive oil.
- Garlic.
- Salt and pepper.
How to make lemon caper sauce
- Prepare the capers: If using salt-packed capers, place then in a sieve and rinse to remove the salt. Allow the capers to drain then roughly chop (especially if they’re very big). Place them in a mixing bowl.
- Make the sauce: Add the olive oil, lemon juice and zest, finely chopped herbs, crushed garlic and season with salt and pepper. Mix until combined, taste and adjust seasoning if necessary.
Can I make this ahead?
The sauce can be made up to a week ahead and kept in the fridge in an airtight container. Make sure to top the sauce with olive oil so that everything is submerged, this will preserve the ingredients in the sauce.
What to serve with lemon caper sauce
Easy sauce recipes
Servings: 4
Calories: 77kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup capers chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lemon zest + juice
- 2 garlic clove crushed
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley chopped
- 2 tsp chives chopped
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Combine chopped capers, lemon juice and zest, garlic and herbs in a bowl and add a few tablespoons of oil.
- Season with salt and pepper then serve with the fish, chicken, beef or pork.
Nutrition
Calories: 77kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 607mg | Potassium: 59mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 142IU | Vitamin C: 17mg | Calcium: 20mg | Iron: 1mg
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Really tasty and easy. I’ve tweaked it by adding more of some ingredients like lemon or garlic and make it without parsley or chives when I only have one or other (or none) on hand. Tastes so good on chicken thighs (I like to cook chicken thighs in instapot and then add this sauce to top, then put lid back on instapot and quickly sauté to heat the sauce) or on grilled salmon and even good on mashed potatoes or baked potatoes or sweet potatoes. I have stored extras in the fridge and used same week on different dish. Grateful for a good lemon capers recipe.
Love all your tweaks – that’s exactly what I want my recipes to be. A guide that you can use for inspiration but eventually turn into your own thing. Thanks for your comment Lindsay!
This is wonderful. Thank you Aloda. Taking a global view it is fundamentally a Chimichurri (ref Argentina). Chimi Verdi (green as opposed to red) to be precise. Another useful addition to the ingredients would be cilantro. Thank you once again.