Lemon-Garlic Chicken Thighs with Fennel

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2–4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      35 min

Appears in
Well Fed Weeknights: Complete Paleo Meals in 45 Minutes or Less

By Melissa Joulwan

Published 2016

  • About

Most of my favorite grassy aromatics—fennel, anise, caraway, chervil, and cumin—are all related. They’re members of the carrot family and share a flavor compound called anethol which is 13 times sweeter than sugar. That’s why fennel is often paired with lemon and almond for balance. As Niki Segnit wrote in her rousing book The Flavor Thesaurus, fennel is “the reason the ch