Baked Fennel With Cambozola
- 5 or 6 heads fennel (each about 3 1/2 in. wide)
- 2 cups fat-skimmed chicken broth
- 1/3 pound (3/4 cup) cambozola or gorgonzola cheese
- 3 tablespoons fine dried bread crumbs
- Salt
- Trim stalks from fennel. Reserve about 1 cup of the feathery green fennel leaves. Trim root ends, bruised areas, and coarse fibers from fennel heads. Rinse, then cut each head in half from stem through root end.
- Lay fennel in an 11- to 12-inch frying pan; add broth. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat; simmer until fennel is tender when pierced, about 20 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer fennel, cut side up, to a shallow 2- to 2 1/2-quart casserole.
- Boil broth, uncovered, over high heat until reduced to about 1/3 cup. Coarsely chop fennel leaves and add about half to the broth. Spoon mixture evenly over fennel.
- Mash cheese with bread crumbs. Dot evenly over fennel.
- Bake in a 375u0b0 oven until cheese begins to brown and fennel is hot, 25 to 30 minutes (35 minutes if chilled). Garnish with remaining fennel leaves; season to taste with salt.
fennel, chicken broth, gorgonzola cheese, bread crumbs, salt
Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/baked-fennel-with-cambozola (may not work)