Best Fennel Recipes

These delicious recipes include juicy chicken breasts with fennel and refreshing, crispy fennel salads.

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Blueberry Salad Recipes

9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Kohlrabi, Fennel and Blueberry Salad | Kohlrabi tastes a lot like a broccoli stem, but it’s milder and sweeter and the texture is crisper. Chef Stephanie Izard thinks it’s an underappreciated vegetable, so she makes it the star of her delicious salad, served raw in very thin slices. In fact, she likes the dish so much that she takes some home to eat on the couch after service a few times a week.

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9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Fennel Mussels with Piquillo Rouille | Before Chris Kronner makes this dish, he forages mussels from the nearby coast. “You have to climb down a 75-foot rock face on a rickety ladder; it’s intense,” he says.

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Thomas Keller Recipes

9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Fennel Mustard | A terrific condiment from Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home; try it on roast pork.

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Nourishing Traditions

July Recipes

Red Onion Salad

9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Overnight Fennel and Jicama Pickles with Orange

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Campari Cocktails

Sparkling Wine Cocktails

9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Campari-Fennel Aperitif | Pleasantly bitter, herb-infused Campari is a bracing aperitif, especially when it’s blended with a little sparkling wine as it is here. Neal Bodenheimer loves how the vivid-red Italian spirit tastes with fennel. “This is a perfect way to use up any leftover fennel fronds from the kitchen,” he says.

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9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Fennel Gratin with Crispy Bread Crumb Topping | This gratin combines tender braised fennel, crunchy bread crumbs and an over-the-top Parmigiano-Reggiano cream sauce. For added color, finely chop some of the fennel fronds as a garnish.

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Pickled Cherry Tomatoes

Pickled Fennel

Pickled Cherries

Cherry Tomato Recipes

Pickled Vegetables

Cherry Tomato

Pickling Recipes

9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Pickled Cherry Tomatoes and Fennel

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Italian Salads

Veg Salads

Orange Dressing

Healthy Italian Recipes

9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Fennel and Red-Onion Salad with Parmesan | Crisp raw fennel, pungent onion, and a sprightly lemon and orange dressing make for a delectable salad. A food processor with a slicing attachment cuts the fennel in no time.

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Orange Sponge Cake

Fennel Pollen

Spring Recipes Dessert

9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Strawberry-and-Wild-Fennel Compote with Pound Cake | Pastry chef Bill Corbett harvests his own fennel pollen for this dessert by hanging wild fennel flowers upside down; as they dry, the pollen falls into a container below.

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9 Fantastic Fennel Recipes

Sautéed Chicken Breasts with Fennel and Rosemary | The Mediterranean flavors of fennel, garlic, and rosemary are perfect with chicken. The fennel and chicken are sautéed and then briefly braised in chicken broth, which becomes a tasty light sauce.