How To Cook Fennel Leaves

Any green salad will have some extra flavor if you chop some fresh fennel fronds in it.

How to cook fennel leaves. Then slice the bulb into smaller components depending on what your recipe. Fennel and fish have been best friends since the dawn of cooking. Try a combo made of fennel fronds arugula baby spinach citrus roasted beets nuts and seeds.

Cook them for an additional 30 minutes. Fennel is generally used to flavor meat seafood and vegetable dishes and is also an ingredient in delicious savory pies pites. The bulb itself isn t the end of fennel s versatility.

In salads especially if the salad contains fennel. Then there s fennel. Large quantities are added to stews and ragouts as well as fricassee dishes and fritters.

Fennel bulbs can also be boiled or steamed. Whether you re grilling poaching or steaming laying a few stalks and fronds alongside the fish will infuse the fish with sweet fennel tastic flavor. Wash and chop or leave whole.

Pastas salads roasts and even desserts here are 50 recipes that use up this versatile veg. You can also pinch the dill like leaves off to use as a garnish for meat or seafood or an extra flavour bomb for salads. First cut off the fronds and separate them from the bulb.

I call them leaves because i m not sure what else to call them they aren t flowers. Roast fennel stalks develop a caramel like sweetness and recipes where the bulb is pan fried also mean that the clean white flesh turns golden and the flavours mellow and become more rounded. Use stalks and fronds for cooking fish.