Braised Fennel with White Wine and Parmesan

Name: Braised Fennel with White Wine and Parmesan
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, butter; 2 medium bulbs, fennel or 3 small bulbs fennel (about 2 1/4 pounds), stems, fronds, and base trimmed, bulb cut vertically into 1/2-inch thick slices (see illustrations 1 through 3); , Salt and ground black pepper; 1/3 cup, dry white wine; 1/4 cup, grated Parmesan cheese

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 1996

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SERVES4

TIME40 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We learned while developing our fennel recipes that it responds well to braising, absorbing flavors from the cooking liquid to deliver very good results. Fairly slow cooking turned out to be the key for delivering fennel that was uniformly ...

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