• Jessica (sie/ihr)@feddit.org
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    27 days ago

    I always replace onions with fennel in every recipe. I have yet to find one where that wasn’t an instant improvement. I honestly don’t understand why people eat onions when fennel exists.

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      27 days ago

      Fennel can absolutely have a place in dishes with onions, but it is not a total replacement. Way too strong a flavor for most flavor bases that start out with onion.

    • blitzen@lemmy.ca
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      27 days ago

      I don’t understand how the two are interchangeable. It’s like saying you substitute mint when something calls for a tomato.

      Edit: oh, like the bulbs. Okay. But flavors seem to be different enough that I wouldn’t have thought of it. If it works for you, great.