Lemon-Garlic Chicken Thighs with Fennel

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