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What to do with fennel?

pipkin71
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Has anyone got any tried and trusted recipes for using fennel?

Due to problems with digestion, I can't have anything containing meat, cheese, cream, pasta or bread products.

I've thought of soup and will use one of them for that but wondered what I could use the other one for :)
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  • K9sandFelines
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    pipkin71 wrote: »
    Has anyone got any tried and trusted recipes for using fennel?

    Due to problems with digestion, I can't have anything containing meat, cheese, cream, pasta or bread products.

    I've thought of soup and will use one of them for that but wondered what I could use the other one for :)

    It's mostly used in curries.Maybe you could stoop it with a teabag and sieve it back out to make a type of fennel tea.

    I am sure someone else will come along with some better ideas.
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  • missbiggles1
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    There are lots of recipes around for braised fennel, most of them along these lines.

    http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/braised-fennel-230997
  • pipkin71
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    K9sandFelines wrote: »
    It's mostly used in curries.Maybe you could stoop it with a teabag and sieve it back out to make a type of fennel tea.

    I am sure someone else will come along with some better ideas.

    Thank you :)

    Another poster linked me to here

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/search?&keywords=fennel&diets%5B0%5D=vegetarian&x=14&y=14

    and I've just put this in the oven to have with a salad for lunch :)

    http://www.sonisfood.com/2013/04/roasted-curried-fennel.html
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  • JIL
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    I slice some up and add to coleslaw, if I make roasted veg, I add fennel in.
    I also made a really nice fennel and white cabbage side dish that goes well with sea bass. I am sure I got the recipe from BBC but I can't see it on there now.
    I have never used it in curry though so will give it a try.
  • FrugalWorker
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    - Soup, but you've thought of that.
    - added to stir fry, but it will strongly flavour it
    - Salad, Fennel / orange / avocado
    - I put it underneath fish, in a package, and in to the oven
    - I griddle it, and serve with fish/other veg/what ever.... let it cool down and add to a salad.
  • pinkparrott
    pinkparrott Posts: 340 Forumite
    Fennel & orange salad
    Or in coleslaw
    Roasted
    In soup
    Baked with sea bass
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    Cook it in a stew with chick peas, they go very well together.
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  • Ches
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    Use it to stuff red peppers before roasting. Delia recipe I think.
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  • suki1964
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    K9sandFelines wrote: »
    It's mostly used in curries.Maybe you could stoop it with a teabag and sieve it back out to make a type of fennel tea.

    I am sure someone else will come along with some better ideas.

    curries? its a Mediterranean vegetable
  • Floss
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    Fennel, radish & orange salad is a La Tasca dish and its scrummy. You can microwave-braise it as a side veg with fish
    You can add it to white wine & lemon for poaching fish, or add it to fish heads & carcass to make fish stock.
    It adds a gentle aniseed flavour.
    Or if you are growing it, you can let it go to seed to harvest for cooking or leave for butterflies & birds ;)
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