I've never grown or eaten fennel (the veg, not the herb) but was given some by a freecycler who took some plants from me. It's frozen (uncooked, I presume) and I'm wondering how to cook it and whether to defrost it first. Any ideas?
a couple of ideas:
Roast with some squash and whizz into a soup, yummmmmmm
Boil and mash with spuds.
grate into coleslaw / salad, not salad weather but ....
Cut in half, butter & pepper, wrap in foil & bake.
Boil quartered for 10 minutes to soften then make a cheese sauce. in a baking dish put the fennel - wafer thin ham over the top and then cover with the sauce - bake until cheese sauce forms a crusty top!
Very yummy!
Old Bird
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mmm, nice ideas! Sounds as if it can be cooked from frozen, then- I think it's already in quarters.
fry off with onion, garlic, herbs and sardines and serve with pasta , bliss :)
I am a massive fan of fennel - you can braise it and it comes out really well. Just fry up some onion and garlic, make some vegetable stock, quarter the fennel (sounds like yours is already done) and cook it all up - its gorgeous!!
Braise mine too, sautee quartes first in a little olive oil to give them colour, add some fennel seeds, cover with veg stock n simmer till cooked. Reduce stock and coat fennel, one of our faves..........just wish I could grow the wretched stuff! ;)
quartered and baked in the oven with cheese on top. Have just had that for lunch here in Milan, a friend cooked it but forgot I am allergic to cheese, se we had to scrape the cheese off.
In the UK ours never bulbs enough, so we just use it in salads.
PS Having a fantastic holiday - lots of eating, drinking, and walking round food markets. Have a borrowed laptop so am catching up on emails and can't resist A4A, but I have 12 pages of unread posts!!!!! Oh well, pour another glass of vino and plod through them.
It is unseasonally warm here, down in Tuscany I got a bit of a tan on Sunday.