What Can I Do to Remove Extra Sodium from Capers?

To remove some of the extra sodium from capers, you want to take them out of the jar and rinse them off in a strainer before you use them. In this video, "Medicine Hunter" Chris Kilham gives his tips for lowering the amount of salt in capers.

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There are about 250 milligrams of sodium

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in a tablespoon of capers. And to reduce that, what I like to do is to take capers out of a jar or the container

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that I get them in. I actually get them refrigerated in little plastic tubs. But in any case, take a handful of those, put them

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in a strainer, run some water from the tap over them. Just rinse them off.

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That'll get rid of a lot of the salt that covers capers. They'll still have salt inside, because they're brined to preserve them.

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And that's one of the benefits of capers, so that you can use them in place of just adding regular table salt.