Fennel recipes

Hungarian Cabbage Soup

These three simple ingredients are lightly flavoured to create a delicious Spanish tapas medley that is perfect for a casual starter or nibbles to serve with pre-dinner drinks.

Tapas of Almonds, Olives and Cheese

Crabmeat Pie

This rich crabmeat pie is flavoured with fennel and is delicious hot or cold.

Crabmeat Pie

Cauliflower and Bean Soup

Chunky Fish Soup

Chunks of firm fish stay attractively whole in this beautifully simple soup. Herbs, tomatoes and wine add extra flavour and a warm, inviting colour, while a modest addition of cream gives it richness.

Chunky Fish Soup

Cracked Wheat and Fennel

This salad incorporates both sweet and savoury flavours. It can be served either as a side-dish or as a starter with warm pitta bread.

Cracked Wheat and Fennel

Lentil cottage pie

Cabbage steamed with fennel seeds makes a crunchy contrast to the pies. You can make one large pie instead of individual ones..

Lentil cottage pie

Italian style eggplants

Roasted Mediterranean Vegetables

For a really colourful dish, try these vegetables roasted in olive oil with garlic and rosemary. The flavour is wonderfully intense.

Roasted Mediterranean Vegetables

Fennel and potato hotpot

A tomato and cucumber salad dressed with lemon juice makes a sharp contrast to the mild aniseed flavour of the fennel.

Fennel and potato hotpot

Whole Baked Salmon

Paglia e Fieno with Smoked Salmon

Italians call this combination of yellow and green pasta 'straw and hay' because of its colours. It looks especially pretty served with richly flavoured smoked salmon in a wine sauce.

Paglia e Fieno with Smoked Salmon

Mushroom and Fennel Hotpot

Marvellous flavours permeate this unusual vegetarian main course or accompaniment. Mushrooms provide useful amounts of vitamins, minerals and fibre.

Mushroom and Fennel Hotpot

Cream of Fennel Soup

Vegetable Couscous

Sweet winter vegetables and pulses, mingled with dried apricots and hot spices for a Middle Eastern flavour, make a warm and comforting stew to serve with the mild grains of couscous.

Vegetable Couscous

Fennel and Herb Coleslaw

Serve this delicious vegetarian salad as an accompaniment, or turn it into a main meal with the addition of some low fat cottage cheese and thick slices of crisp red-skinned apples.

Fennel and Herb Coleslaw

Roasted Fennel and Red Onion with Orange

Herbed Naan Bread

Grilled Vegetables with Walnut Sauce

Chefs Bouillabaisse

This classic French fish soup originates from Marseilles.

Fennel Gratin