Fennel seed

Graine de fenouil

What it is

The Greeks called the plant marathon and named a battlefield after the fennel growing on it — the run that gave us the marathon began in a fennel field. Indian restaurants still set out sugared seeds by the door as a digestive.

In the kitchen

Crack the seeds lightly before they go into a sausage or a pork rub. Whole they stay inert; powdered they turn medicinal.

Goes with

Pork Lard Orange Olive oil Garlic Tomato Chili pepper Fennel

Same species

Fennel Fennel pollen Wild fennel fronds

Also used with

Pork collar Kashmiri chilli Cracked olive of the Vallée des Baux Wormwood Picholine olive Dried fig

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