Stuffed, Braised Chicken Legs with Fennel

Substitute any stuffing you like if the truffle peels are not easily come by—one of those suggested for the split, stuffed, and baked chicken or simply a fabrication of breadcrumbs, egg, herbs, dried or fresh, precooked onion or raw garlic purée . . . Stuffed legs may, of course, be treated like any of the stews as long as the elements in the stuffing marry with those in the sauce.

A mixture similar to the truffle stuffing was recently fabricated in one of my classes to stuff raviol