Italian
Finocchi Gratinati (Baked Fennel)
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Finocchi Gratinati (Baked Fennel) is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oven to 400F.
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Cut the fennel bulbs into wedges and boil in salted water until just tender, about 8 minutes, then drain well.
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Arrange the fennel in a baking dish and season with salt.
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Dot with the butter and scatter over the parmesan and breadcrumbs.
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Bake until golden and bubbling, about 15 minutes, then serve hot.
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Serve it with
A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Finocchi Gratinati (Baked Fennel), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Finocchi Gratinati (Baked Fennel) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens) |
| Gluten | Yes | Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 170 kcal
- Protein
- 7 g
- Carbs
- 12 g
- Fat
- 10 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 290 mg
- Saturated fat
- 6 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Finocchi Gratinati (Baked Fennel) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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