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Dinner · 25 min · 2 plates

Fennel sausage skillet

Italian butcher-pan. Fennel and sausage are cousins. Wine to deglaze. It should smell like a roast without the wait.

The sheet · 2 plates · 25 min

easy

Why tonight. Italian butcher-pan. Fennel and sausage are cousins. Wine to deglaze. It should smell like a roast without the wait.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • sausage
  • fennel
  • onion
  • white wine

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes.

Method

  1. Brown the sausages whole first, then take them out and slice. Sliced first they lose their fat and dry.
  2. Fennel sliced and cooked in that fat for fifteen minutes until soft and sweet.
  3. Wine in and reduced hard, scraping the base clean.
  4. Sausage back in at the end. Fennel and pork is a classic because the anise cuts the fat.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

sausage
Seasoned fat and meat that arrives pre-flavored, so it does double duty as protein and as the base a dish is built on.
fennel
Anise, and it moves a long way with cooking.
onion
The base under most of this library.
white wine
Acid and a little sweetness for deglazing, and it should be something you would drink.

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.

Cooks from the same box

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