Celery And Fennel With Bacon Recipes

Steps:

• Combine celery, fennel, and red onion in a bowl. Mix in parsley. Add lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Mix together and let sit for 2 hours or more for flavors to develop.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425° with a medium cast-iron pan on the middle rack.
• Pulse the parsley leaves with the Braun MultiQuick 7 Hand Blender with the MQ20BK chopper attachment. Set chopped parsley aside.
• Melt 3 tablespoons butter and let cool. Combine eggs, milk, flour, 1 teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon pepper, and the melted butter in a large bowl. Using an immersion hand blender such as the Braun MultiQuick 7 Hand Blender, mix ingredients until frothy and smooth.
• Carefully remove the hot cast-iron pan from the oven and melt the remaining tablespoon butter in the pan. Pour the batter into the pan and scatter the chopped parsley over the top. Bake in the oven until the pancake is puffed and golden brown, about 20 to 22 minutes.
• Meanwhile, toss fennel, celery, olive oil, lemon juice, and bacon in a medium bowl, season with salt and pepper. Add this mixture on top of the pancake, drizzle with honey, and serve with lemon wedges. Enjoy immediately.

Steps:

• Reserve 1/2 cup celery leaves. Remove strings from celery ribs with peeler, then cut celery ribs into 3- by 1/4-inch sticks.
• Reserve 1/2 cup fennel fronds. Trim fennel stalks flush with bulbs. Cut any brown spots from outer layers and quarter bulbs lengthwise. Cut out most of cores, leaving enough to hold layers together. Cut bulbs lengthwise into 1/4-inch-wide slices.
• Have ready 2 large bowls of ice and water. Cook celery ribs in a large pot of boiling salted water 2 minutes, then transfer with a slotted spoon to 1 bowl of ice water. Return water to a boil and cook fennel bulbs 2 minutes, then transfer to second bowl of ice water. When vegetables are cool, drain both in a colander.
• Cook bacon in a 6- to 8-quart heavy pot over moderate heat until crisp, then transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Add shallot to bacon fat and cook, stirring, until softened. Add celery and fennel and cook, stirring, until vegetables begin to brown, about 10 minutes. Add broth and simmer, stirring frequently, until vegetables are barely tender, 12 to 15 minutes.
• Coarsely chop reserved celery leaves and fennel fronds. Remove pot from heat and stir in leaves, fronds, parsley, bacon, and salt and pepper to taste.

Steps:

• Trim the stems and leaves from the fennel bulbs. Chop and reserve two tablespoons of the leaves. Discard the stems. Quarter and shred the fennel bulbs by hand or on the fine slicing disk of a food processor. Put the fennel in a bowl.
• Heat one tablespoon of the oil in a heavy skillet, add the bacon and saute over medium heat until the bacon is golden. Pour the contents of the skillet through a strainer into a heatproof bowl. Spread the pieces of bacon on absorbent paper.
• Add the vinegar to the skillet and heat briefly, then stir in the mustard. Return the reserved bacon fat to the pan and add the remaining olive oil. Season to taste with pepper.
• Pour the dressing over the fennel, add the chopped leaves and the chives and serve at once. For convenience, the dressing and fennel can be prepared in advance. Wait until just before serving to reheat the dressing, then toss it with the fennel.