Extremely delicious and super light, this fennel soup easily qualifies as a modern-day comfort food in a bowl. The soup can be rustled up in minutes if you have a few handy ingredients in your pantry. If you like the subtle flavor of fennel then you will love how this soup brings out the best of fennel simply sautéed in butter.
For variations, add some onion powder to the soup to complement the taste of fennel. If you are looking for some carbohydrate addition, cubed potatoes work well with fennel in this soup.
Transfer the Fennel Soup into a tumbler and sip on! Also, store it in your airtight container set, so you can have a cup when you feel like it.
Health Benefits
- Fennel is a rich source of fiber, folate, vitamin B6 and C, as well as potassium and phytonutrients.
- Fennel is rich in fiber and reduces the risk of heart diseases. Fennel helps reduce the amount of cholesterol in the blood.
Ingredients
fennel bulbs — trim and divided into quarters: 5
cup butter: 1/4
fluid oz vegetable broth: 32
salt
pepper
How To Make Fennel Soup
- Place a skillet on medium heat and add the butter, allowing it to melt. Add the fennel bulbs and stir until they turn golden brown. This should take around 10 minutes.
- Add the broth and cook over low flame until the fennel bulbs are tender.
- Serve in soup bowls seasoning with salt and pepper.
Trivia
- Sack, a popular alcohol-based drink consumed during the Shakespearian era used the roots of fennel for flavoring!
- The dried seeds of fennel find their use as flavoring agents and are used as spices. Fennel is even used to make a special tea that is used to treat heartburn and stomach cramps.