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This easy roasted fennel recipe is decadent, caramelized, soft, and crispy - all at the same time. Look no further for a delicious and simple oven baked fennel recipe to serve as a perfect side dish!

Serve roasted fennel as a beautiful stand out side dish, as an addition to a grain or a garnish for a meat (New York Strip Steak), or vegetarian main dish (Coconut Red Lentils).

Looking for more fennel recipes? Check out: Fennel and Avocado Salad or Pot Roast with Fennel.

What Does Roasted Fennel Taste Like?
Fennel has a light licorice taste. Fennel is delicious when sliced thin and eaten raw in salads. It's also good cooked with onions as part of a soup base.

It is equally delicious when chunked or sliced and baked in the oven until tender, caramelized, and browned. Roasting fennel in the oven brings out it's natural sweetness.

Fennel can be sliced or cut into chunks for baking in the oven. In this oven roasted fennel recipe, I prefer chunks.

What Part of Fennel Do You Use For Cooking?
Generally, the part of the fennel that is used in cooking is the white bulb. Having said that, some of the more tender "fingers" or stalks originating from the fennel bulb can also be chopped and roasted. See / hear the video for more explanation.

The stalks closest to the fennel bulb will be tender but the stalks further out will become tough and fibrous.

Wanna up your game? Cool - chop some of the fresh fennel leaves and use them as a garnish for this oven roasted fennel recipe.

Troubleshooting Oven Roasted Fennel
Fennel not browning in the oven? Up your temperature to 450F and / or up your time. All ovens are different in their temperature calibration and also may be hotter in different areas of the oven.

Likewise, how you bake or roast vegetables is different based on the tools you use. For example: vegetables roasted on silicone mats generally take a little longer than vegetables roasted straight on the sheet pan or on aluminum foil.

You don't need to use aluminum foil for this fennel recipe, it's just an easy solution if you don't want to clean the sheet pan and are lazy like me 🙂

Lastly, don't overcrowd the sheet pan with fennel or it will steam and not roast / brown properly. See image below for spacing on the pan.

Serves 3

Ingredients

• 2 medium fennel bulbs
• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• ¼ tsp salt + more to taste
• pinch black pepper

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 425F and line a baking sheet with aluminum foil or silicone mat.

• Take the stalks off the fresh fennel bulb and roughly chunk the bulb.

• Toss the fennel with olive oil, salt, and pepper and lay out spaciously on the sheet pan. Don't overcrowd the pan.

• Roast for ~12 minutes. Remove from oven, move fennel around, and place back in oven for ~10-12 minutes or until browned and caramelized.

• Add salt to taste

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