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Jarred and brined nonpareil capers, which cost about $2.00 for the same amount, are fine and you can look for either a good house brand, e.g., Whole Foods, or a quality brand like Roland, which specializes in fine imported food products. An 8 oz. jar of caper berries will cost about $5.00.
Capers -- those salty, pea-sized dark green things -- are one of those ingredients you see a lot but may not fully understand. They're commonplace across many cuisines: You'll find them in Mediterranean dishes like chicken piccata or spaghetti puttanesca, and in French dishes like salade Nicoise.apers are pickled flower buds. Tiny capers are picked from a shrub-like bush (Capparis spinosa), long before the buds ever flower. The capers are then dried in the sun and later brined or packed in salt. (To use capers in recipes it's a good idea to rinse them first, to remove all the excess salt or brine.).