Dinner · 10 min · Amounts not specified
Fennel orange salad
Slice the fennel as thin as you can manage — thick fennel stays crunchy and aniseedy. The orange juice on the board is the dressing.
The sheet · 4 as a side · 10 min
easyWhy tonight. Slice the fennel as thin as you can manage — thick fennel stays crunchy and aniseedy. The orange juice on the board is the dressing.
What it needs
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- fennel
- orange
- olive oil
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: olives.
Method
- Slice the fennel as thin as you physically can. Thick fennel stays crunchy and aniseedy and the whole salad reads as raw.
- Segment the orange over the bowl so the juice lands in the dressing rather than on the board.
- That juice plus oil and salt is the entire dressing. It needs no vinegar.
- Olives and the fennel fronds at the end, and let it sit five minutes so the fennel softens slightly.
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- Produce prepCitrus SupremeEpicuriousCutting the pith and membrane away so the segments come out clean — the prep behind every citrus salad.Link checked 2026-09-08
- EmulsionsScience: How to Make Salad Dressing Vinaigrette That Doesn't Separate or Break by Using an EmulsionAmerica's Test KitchenWhat the emulsifier is doing in a vinaigrette, demonstrated on a dressing that keeps splitting.95K+ views at the September 2026 review. · Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- fennel
- Anise, and it moves a long way with cooking.
- orange
- Sweeter and rounder than lemon and lime, so it softens rather than sharpens.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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