A Sicilian appetizer or relish made from eggplant, tomatoes, olives, capers, and other vegetables cooked together with vinegar and olive oil.
From Italian 'caponata', possibly derived from 'caponata' (Latin 'capo', a type of fish sauce), or from Spanish 'capones' (caponized roosters), though Sicilian origin is most likely.
Caponata is one of those dishes where sweet, salty, sour, and umami flavors clash together perfectly—it's technically a vegetable stew but tastes like nothing else.
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