One of my favorite blogs some years ago created a blog category called THE SHITS I EAT WHEN BY MYSELF. (Here she presents all the recipes she cooks fast & easy for herself when hungry, feeling cold, feeling alone, distressed, stressed out …) When doing this fennel mess for the umpteenth time I realized that this is a candidate for such a category – if I ever had such a category!
What is it about?
It’s only about grabbing some vegetables, some meat & then just fry it …
It’ll be something for a bowl to be eaten at once … filling your hungry self!
So …
What do we need?
It’s only:
- fresh fennel
- spring onions
- minced beef.
Just clean & trim the fennel. Put aside the fennel’s green.
Chop the spring onions – not too small, not too roughly.
Chop the fennel – as fine as you can… Discard the trunk – it’s too hard!
Then put everything in a pan w/ some olive oil & fry. Add the minced beef & fry somewhat more.
The mess is ready when the fennel seems soft & the meat is well done. (Maybe you get the feeling that it’s too dry … then add some splashes of water & continue frying!)
Add salt & pepper to taste.
So once again:
The mess is ready when well done & slightly brown.
If you like you may add 1 tablespoon of dark or light soy sauce!
You may also add the fennel’s green …
You may also add some cooked rice as a basis or aside …
… & you might replace minced pork for minced beef or a mix of both … or any other minced meat …
You may add some more spring onions or just omit them.
You may take more meat or more fennel – it’s up to you …
Enjoy & dig in!
- 250 g minced beef
- 3-4 fennel (about 650 g gross weight)
- 3-4 spring onions
- olive oil
- optional: 1-2 tbsp soy sauce (light or dark)
- salt & pepper
- Clean & trim the fennel; it should be about 300-350 g fennel net weight. (Save the fennels' green!)
- Chop the fennel as thin as possible.
- Add olive oil to a pan.
- Fry the minced beef & crush it.
- Add chopped fennel & let it fry softly for about 15-20 min. Add some splashes of water if it seems too dry.
- Increase the heat & fry at high temperature for another 5 min until crisp.
- optional: Add soy sauce.
- Add salt & pepper to taste.
- optional: Add the fennels' green (chopped).
