Marati Moggu

After the spate of depressing posts about ingredients that you may or may not be able to find, finally a post where you can make legitimate substitutions.

This is the dried fruit of the caper tree (Latin: capparis spinosa; Indian: marati moggu, marathi moggu, etc.)

If you can't find it, take salt-cured capers (not vinegar-cured), wash the salt off, and dry in the sun (or at your lowest oven setting below 200°F for 90-120 minutes depending on the size of the capers.)

Unsurprisingly, it tastes like capers but the drying changes the flavor enough to be worth it, and you can store it for a long time.

The CC vaguely remembers that "dried capers" are a Greek specialty but he could be wrong about this one.