Grilled Baby Artichokes with Caper-Mint Sauce

Name: Grilled Baby Artichokes with Caper-Mint Sauce
Prep time: 3 d 3 h
Cook time: 3 d 3 h
Total time: 3 d 3 h
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 fillets flat anchovy fillets, drained, patted dry, and minced; 12 baby artichokes (3 1/2 by 2 inches; see cooks note, below; 1/2 pound total); 3 Tbsps drained capers, rinsed and finely chopped; 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice; 59 milliliters finely chopped mint; 118 milliliters extra-virgin olive oil; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 1 Tbsp white-wine vinegar

Grilled Baby Artichokes with Caper-Mint Sauce is a gluten free, dairy free, and primal recipe with 6 servings. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains roughly 14g of protein, 28g of fat, and a total of 409 calories. It works best as a side dish, and is done in roughly 75 hours. It will be a hit at your The Fourth Of July event. A mixture of flat anchovy, olive oil, lemon juice, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious.

Instructions

Combine 1 qt cold water and lemon juice in a large bowl. Working with 1 artichoke at a time, bend back outer leaves until they snap off close to base and discard several more layers of leaves in same manner until exposed leaves are pale green at top and pale yellow at base. Trim pointed tips of leaves with kitchen shears, then cut a thin slice from end of stem to expose a fresh cross section. Trim dark green fibrous parts from base and stem of artichoke, being careful not to break off stem. Halve artichoke lengthwise.

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Lemon Juice

Artichoke

Water

Base

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Bowl

Remove fuzzy center and any pointed inner leaves. Put in bowl of lemon water.

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Lemon

Water

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Bowl

Drain artichokes, then cook in a large pot of boiling salted water (1 Tbsp salt for 5 qt water) until tender, about 8 minutes.

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Artichoke

Water

Salt

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Pot

Drain and transfer to an ice bath to stop cooking.

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Ice

Drain well.

Prepare a grill for direct-heat cooking over medium-hot charcoal (medium-high heat for gas).

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Grill

Toss artichokes with oil in a bowl. Oil grill rack, then grill artichokes, cut sides down, covered only if using a gas grill, turning once, until golden brown in spots, 6 to 8 minutes.

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Artichoke

Cooking Oil