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Dishes with fresh and pickled fennel
Fennel does not appear on our menu as often as it deserves. Meanwhile, this amazing product contains a lot of valuable qualities and is able to give familiar dishes new notes. How to cook fennel delicious, interesting and useful? Let’s figure it out together.
Vitamin prevention
The main advantage of fennel is that absolutely all its parts are consumed. But perhaps the most delicious is a juicy, fleshy onion, or tuber. From it, we will make a fennel salad. Cut the fennel onion into strips, sprinkle with salt and sprinkle with lemon juice. We cut the orange pulp into slices, having previously cleaned its slices from white films. We put all the ingredients on a plate mixed together. Fill them with olive oil, decorate with rings of sweet or hot pepper and basil. Such a vitamin mix on the eve of the cold season will benefit the whole family.
A cure for the blues
Vegetable stew with fennel gets a fresh sound. Chop a head of fennel and 3 sweet peppers of different colors. Fry them with a slice of chopped garlic in olive oil. Then pour out the diced zucchini, eggplant, carrots and 2 potatoes. When the vegetables are soft, lay 3 tomatoes in slices, bring the stew to a boil and remove from the heat. Spread the finished stew on a plate and decorate with parsley petals. Such a rainbow dish will instantly dispel the autumn melancholy.
A treat with a light
How about an original snack in the form of pickled fennel? Choose a large fennel and randomly cut it. Here, not only the bulb will be used, but also the leaves with stems. Mix in a saucepan 500 ml of water, 2 tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp salt, ½ tsp pepper peas and mustard seeds. Bring the mixture to a boil and add 50 ml of apple cider vinegar. Put the fennel in a jar, pour the marinade, boil in a saucepan with water for 15 minutes, after which the jar can be rolled up. Juicy crunchy snack will conquer the home with its aroma alone. Photo: cookthatbook.com
Creamy harmony
Very organically combined with fennel chicken. We offer to cook it according to the recipe of Yulia Healthy Food Near Me. Rub 8 chicken thighs with salt and pepper. First, fry them on all sides until golden brown, and then simmer under the lid for 10 minutes. Add the fennel tuber in strips and continue to simmer. Rub in a mortar a head of garlic, 1 tbsp. l. mustard seeds, 1 tsp. cumin, paprika, turmeric and 4 boxes of cardamom. Fill this mixture with 300 ml of cream and heat it in a frying pan, where the meat was fried. Return the thighs with fennel, sprinkle with coriander and bring to a boil. A harmonious combination of flavors, set off by a bouquet of spices, will decorate the family menu.
Warm company
Beef with fennel is an equally organic duet. Cut 500 g of beef into strips, fry with salt and pepper, spread on a plate. Here, we pass the white part of the leek stem with rings with a crushed garlic clove. Add 300 g of tomatoes in their own juice, 1 tbsp flour, bay leaf and 300 ml of boiling water. Stirring continuously, simmer the sauce until thickened. Put the beef in it and simmer under the lid for 20 minutes. In another pan, fry in butter 3 fennel tubers in slices, 1 carrot in cubes. At the end, season it with a handful of fennel seeds, salt and spices to taste. It remains to combine the meat with the side dish, put out for 20 minutes, garnish with chili pepper and fresh herbs — and you can surprise your family.
Aromatic dinner
Another interesting meat variation is pork with fennel. Rub in a mortar a handful of cumin and sea salt with 10 peas of black pepper. Rub this mixture on a boneless pork tenderloin weighing 1 kg, cut into small pieces. Brown it in a deep frying pan on all sides. 0.5 kg of new potatoes are well washed and boiled until half-cooked. 1 head of red and 1 head of white onion cut into half rings, make a pillow out of it in a baking dish. We put the potatoes in a baking dish, put the meat on top of it. Randomly cut the fennel with leaves and stems, cover the meat with them. Sprinkle it with dried garlic, put the bay leaf and put it in the oven for 90 minutes at 180 °C. Let the finished pork brew for 20 minutes — so it will turn out much more flavorful and tastier.
Creamy salmon
For sea gourmets, we have prepared a recipe for fish with fennel. First of all, we cook 3-4 potatoes until they are half cooked and cut them into thick circles. In a greased form, put the first layer of potatoes and cover it with slices of fennel. On this “pillow” we put 700 g of salmon fillet in large slices. Pour them with a sauce of 200 ml of cream, 100 ml of dry white wine, 1 tsp of fennel seeds. We’ll save some of it for later. On top of the fish, put another layer of potato circles. Bake the salmon for 50 minutes at 180 °C. Such an exquisite dish is quite appropriate in the festive menu.
Fennel is one of the easiest and most delicious ways to make your usual menu more interesting and diverse. Look for more successful ideas in the recipes section on the website “Healthy Food Near Me”. And if you have any favorite dishes with fennel, tell us about them in the comments.