Apple Baked with Fennel

Ingredients

An unusual combo but a delicious savory side dish!

  • 1 tbsp. butter
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • salt & pepper to taste
  • 2 apples cored
  • 4 slices whole onion
  • 1 fennel bulb, quartered

Steps

  1. Place butter, sugar, salt & pepper in small bowl and microwave 20 sec.
  2. Drizzle some butter on bottom of baking pan.
  3. Place onions slices on bottom of pan, then apples on top of them.
  4. Lay in fennel pieces around apples.
  5. Drizzle rest of melted butter inside apple centers and on outside of apples.
  6. Bake in oven at 400 deg. for 30-40 min till apples are soft but not yet mushy.

**Tip: Makes an excellent side with pork chops!

Serves: 2-4

Credit: Camille Van Sant