Slow Cooker Artichoke Caponata Food

SLOW-COOKER CAPONATA

Steps:

• Place first 11 ingredients in a 6-qt. slow cooker (do not stir). Cook, covered, on high for 3 hours. Stir gently; replace cover. Cook on high 2 hours longer or until vegetables are tender. Cool slightly; discard bay leaves. Serve with toasted baguette slices, adding toppings as desired.

SLOW COOKER ARTICHOKE CAPONATA

Steps:

• Preheat a slow cooker to High.
• Place a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Lightly coat the bottom of the pan with olive oil. Cook the fennel and leeks until lightly browned and softened, about five minutes. Stir in the garlic, tomato paste, wine, and raisins and continue cooking for one minute more.
• Transfer the mixture to the slow cooker insert. Cover and cook on High for three hours.
• To clean the fresh artichokes, use a paring knife to cut the outside leaves free from the body of the vegetable. Continue turning your knife around the artichoke until you have an equal amount of green leaves with yellow tops. Leave the stem intact-it gives the artichoke a pretty shape. If you like, peel some of the tough green fibers from the outside of the stem with a paring knife. Cut the artichoke in half lengthwise and scoop out the choke (if any) with a melon baller. Place the artichoke pieces in a bowl of cold water with the lemon juice to keep the artichokes from turning dark.
• Add the pine nuts, artichokes, mint, parsley, and thyme to the vegetable mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover and cook on High for one hour more.
• Serve the caponata warm or cold. Drizzle with additional olive oil, and garnish with fennel fronds or chopped mint, if desired.

CAPONATA - CANNED

Steps:

• Heat 5 Tbs olive oil in stockpot.
• Add eggplant that has been cut into 1" cubes.
• Stir fry 10-12 minutes until golden and touched with brown.
• Add remaining oil, onions, garlic, and celery and stir fry 10 minutes longer until golden.
• Mix in all remaining ingredients, cover, reduce heat to moderately low and simmer 1 hour, stirring about every 10 minutes.
• Uncover and cook until very thick, about the consistency of chutney.
• Prepare 3 pint sized jars.
• Ladle caponata into jars leaving 1 inch headspace.
• Wipe rims with a damp cloth.
• Seal with lids.
• Pressure cooker can pints at 10 pounds pressure for 30 minutes.

ARTICHOKE DIP (CAPONATA)

Steps:

• Combine Parmesan cheese and mayonnaise.
• Add the finely minced garlic.
• Add the drained and coarsely chopped artichoke hearts and combine with cheese mixture.
• May be served cold or heated 10 to 20 minutes in 350°F oven or until cheese is melted. (Do not heat in microwave).
• Serve with chips or as a spread on french bread.

ARTICHOKE CAPONATA (CAPUNATA 'I CACUOCCIULI)

Steps:

• Make tomato sauce:
• Crush tomatoes in a bowl with your hand. Cook garlic in oil in a 1 1/2-quart saucepan over low heat, turning occasionally, until pale golden, about 10 minutes. Discard garlic. Stir in tomatoes, sugar, basil, and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer vigorously, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until sauce is reduced to a thick pulp, about 20 minutes.
• Prepare vegetables:
• Smash olives with a meat pounder or flat side of a large knife. Remove pits. Soak olives 30 minutes in cold water, changing water every 10 minutes. Drain. Juice 2 lemons into a large bowl half filled with cold water and add lemon halves. Working with 1 artichoke at a time and running knife through remaining lemon before each cut, trim about ‚ inch from tops and cut off stems. Pull off tough outer leaves and quarter artichokes lengthwise. Put them in lemon water as trimmed.
• Drain artichokes well and pat dry. Heat oil in a large heavy skillet over moderately high heat, then sauté artichokes, stirring, 2 minutes. Add salt to taste and cook over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp-tender, 15 to 20 minutes. While artichokes cook, blanch celery in boiling water 2 minutes and transfer with tongs to a bowl of cold water to stop cooking. Thinly slice.
• Add celery, olives, and capers to artichokes. Cook over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until hot. Stir in vinegar and cook 1 minute. Add tomato sauce and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer 5 minutes. Serve at room temperature with a few grindings of black pepper.

ARTICHOKE CAPONATA

Steps:

• Sauté artichoke hearts, onions and garlic in olive oil for 5 minutes.
• Add wine, capers and sweet basil.
• Serve hot or cold with toast points or toasted crusty bread.