Thursday, February 18, 2010

Katrina's Buttered Fennel Chicken

Tonight I got funky in the kitchen and created a meal using the ingredients from our Suggestion Saturday. I'm not gonna lie. Finding the fennel proved to be a little more difficult than I thought and by difficult I mean that I had to go to a grocery store 2 miles from my house instead of the one 20 miles away that I started at. For a minute I thought I might have to prepare this for you:

What? It's chicken, onion, and fennel (it's right there in the italian seasoning).

But fortunately for you (and my family) I found the fennel, except good ol Albertson's tried to trick me by labling it anise.

My ingredients: fennel, white wine, butter, chicken, onion.

I cut my onion in half and then sliced it. I sliced the bulb of my fennel and added to a hot pan of butter!

Fennel bulbs are really interesting...
After the fennel and onions were translucent I set them aside, added a little more butter and threw in my chicken to brown.
After the chicken browned, I had this yumminess...I added the white wine and scraped the yummy buttery bits off the bottom and added the chicken and veggies back to the pan to simmer for a bit longer.
My finished plate with cheesy mashed potatoes and the lovely salad Andrea made with avocado, carrots, garlic, onion, and greens.
This was super yummy and something I will definitely make again! (sorry for the crappy picture, I ran out of natural light)
Check out Denise's creation HERE.

5 comments:

  1. Dude, that looks so good! Yummy! I'm ignorant and have never heard of fennel. I had a Katrina moment and saw funnel and was thinking of funnel cake. Ew, chicken funnel cake! Might be that Disneyland is still on the brain.

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  2. Katrina that looks sooooo good...I have wanted to do something fennel....I'm going to try this tonight!! WOW!and the wine is a must!

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  3. ur so creative. i ddin't know there was really anything called fennel.

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  4. Looks wonderfully yummy Katrina! WAY TO GO! I'm glad you didn't have to go with your first choice! (campbell's chicken soup, .......)

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  5. I just made this. It was pretty fantastic. We had it with cheesy mashed potatoes as well - and green beans. I can't say our 4 year old ate the fennel, but he did like the chicken. I'll do this again, and again, and again.

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