Dinner · 30 min · Amounts not specified
Fennel baked eggs
Cook the fennel properly soft first or it stays crunchy and aniseedy under the eggs. Ten minutes, and it turns sweet.
The sheet · 2 plates · 30 min
mediumWhy tonight. Cook the fennel properly soft first or it stays crunchy and aniseedy under the eggs. Ten minutes, and it turns sweet.
What it needs
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- eggs
- fennel
- tomato
- olive oil
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: feta.
Method
- Slice the fennel thin and cook it in olive oil for a good ten minutes until it is soft and sweet. Raw fennel stays crunchy and aniseedy in a bake.
- Tomatoes in and cooked down until the pan is thick rather than watery.
- Wells made with a spoon, eggs cracked in, lid on, lowest heat.
- Pull it while the yolks still move. Feta over at the end, and the fennel fronds if the bulb came with them.
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- fennel
- Anise, and it moves a long way with cooking.
- tomato
- Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
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