Fennel Seafood Linguine Recipes

SEAFOOD LINGUINE

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add linguini pasta, and cook for 6 to 8 minutes, or until al dente. Drain.
• Meanwhile, in an electric frying pan, or large skillet saute the red onion and garlic in olive oil. When onion is translucent, add the milk. Cook until bubbles form around the edges of the pan. Add the parsley, chopped green and red bell pepper, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, shrimp, crab, and scallops and stir until well incorporated.
• Remove 1/2 cup of milk from the mixture and place in a small bowl with the flour. Stir until smooth. Add back to skillet with seafood and vegetables. Allow mixture to thicken. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Pour seafood sauce over drained and cooked linguini noodles. Serve warm.

LINGUINE WITH BAY SCALLOPS, FENNEL, AND TOMATOES

Steps:

• Cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup pasta cooking liquid.
• Meanwhile, heat 2 tablespoons oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add sliced fennel and onion; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Sauté until wilted but crisp-tender, about 6 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer to medium bowl.
• Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil to skillet. Add scallops and sauté until just opaque in center, stirring occasionally, about 2 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer to bowl with fennel-onion mixture. Add tomatoes to skillet and sauté until heated through, about 2 minutes. Return fennel-onion mixture and scallops to skillet. Mix in Pernod.
• Add drained pasta to skillet; toss to coat, adding reserved cooking liquid by 1/4 cupfuls if dry. Stir in 3 tablespoons chopped parsley and 1 tablespoon fennel fronds. Transfer to large shallow bowl, sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon chopped parsley, and serve with lemon wedges.

LINGUINE WITH FENNEL AND TUNA

Steps:

• Cook linguine according to package instructions. Drain and return to pot; reserve 1/2 cup pasta water.
• Trim fennel bulbs; reserve 1/4 cup chopped fronds. Quarter, core, and thinly slice bulbs crosswise; cook in 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat until golden, stirring occasionally, 10 minutes. Add to pasta along with fronds, lemon juice, capers, remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil, and reserved pasta water.
• Season with salt and pepper. Flake in tuna. Gently toss.

LINGUINE WITH CLAMS AND FENNEL

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook, stirring occasionally, until almost al dente. Drain, reserving 1 cup pasta cooking liquid.
• Meanwhile, heat 3 tablespoons oil in another large heavy pot over medium heat. Add chopped fennel and garlic; cook, stirring often, until softened but not browned, 2-3 minutes. Add wine, then clams. Increase heat to high. Cover and cook until clams open, 4-7 minutes, depending on size of clams. As clams open, use tongs to transfer them to a large bowl (discard any that do not open).
• Add 1/2 cup reserved pasta cooking liquid to clam juices in pot; bring to a boil. Add pasta to pot. Cook over high heat, tossing constantly, until pasta is al dente and has soaked up some of the sauce, 2-3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add clams with any juices from bowl and 2 tablespoons fennel fronds; toss to combine, adding more pasta liquid by tablespoonfuls if dry.
• Divide among bowls. Drizzle with oil; garnish with fennel fronds and fennel pollen.

FENNEL & SEAFOOD LINGUINE

Steps:

• Mix any brown crabmeat with the crème fraîche and cayenne pepper, and set aside. Pull away any tough outer leaves from the fennel bulb (you can keep these to use for stock). Trim the base, and remove the stem (again, reserve these for making stock, if you like). Finely chop the fronds and set aside. Slice the bulb in half along the core, then lay the pieces, cut-side down, on a chopping board. Cut each half into thick slices, then rotate by 90 degrees and chop.
• Heat the olive oil in a large, heavy-bottomed frying pan over a medium heat, add the fennel, shallot, chilli, garlic and a good pinch of sea salt and cook for 8-10 mins, or until the fennel and shallot are have softened. Add the tomatoes and cook for a few minutes more until they start to break down. Tip in the vermouth or white wine, and scrape up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Continue to cook until the liquid has reduced by about half, then remove from the heat.
• Meanwhile, cook the linguine in a large pan of boiling salted water, following pack instructions, until just al dente. Reheat the fennel sauce over a medium heat and transfer the pasta directly from its water to the sauce using tongs. Add a good ladleful of the pasta cooking water to loosen the mix, then spoon in the white crabmeat. Stir everything together well to agitate the mixture and emulsify the sauce. Add the crab and crème fraîche mixture, and stir for a few minutes until the sauce is thick and glossy. Stir in the chopped herbs and taste for seasoning - the sauce should be thick, silky and not too runny, so continue to cook until it's the right thickness, if needed. Season with a little lemon juice, then divide between warmed bowls.

FISH LINGUINE

Steps:

• Put the olive oil into a hot, thick-bottomed, high-sided pan. Grate in the garlic and fennel and soften, then add the anchovies and red onion. Saute, but do not brown. Add the salt then lay the red mullet fillets, skin side up, on top. Sprinkle with the lemon zest, and pour in a little white wine to stop everything frying, and to start stewing. Put in a good glug of olive oil, some pepper and the chile. Turn the heat down and add the juice from 1/2 the lemon and some fennel tops.
• Meanwhile cook the linguine in boiling, salted water until al dente.
• Gently toss the linguine and sauce together, check the seasoning and serve with a drizzle of olive oil on top and some more fennel tops.

FENNEL & GARLIC SHRIMP

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large (12-inch) saute pan over medium heat. Add the fennel and saute for 5 minutes, until tender but not browned. Turn the heat to medium-low, add the garlic and red pepper flakes, and cook at a very low sizzle for 2 to 3 minutes, until the garlic just begins to color.
• Pat the shrimp dry with paper towels, add them to the pan, and toss together with the fennel and olive oil. Spread the shrimp in one layer and cook over medium heat for 2 minutes on one side. Turn the shrimp and cook for 2 minutes on the other side, until they¿re pink and just cooked through.
• Off the heat, sprinkle with the parsley, 1 tablespoon of chopped fennel fronds, the Pernod (if using), the fleur de sel, and black pepper and serve it with bread to soak up all the pan juices.

LINGUINE WITH FENNEL AND MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Bring some water to boil in a covered pot for linguine.
• Slice a little off the bottom of the fennel, and trim the leaves and stems. Remove tough outer layer, and cut the fennel in quarters. Steam over hot water for about 7 minutes, until the fennel is tender.
• Heat a large nonstick pan until it is very hot. Reduce the heat to medium high, and brown the meat, stirring often to keep it from sticking to the pan and to break it up into little pieces.
• Chop the whole onion; push the beef to the side, and add the oil to the pan. Add the onion, and saute until it softens and begins to brown.
• Mince the garlic, and add to to the onion along with the caraway seeds, coriander, hot-pepper flakes, cloves and fennel, and stir well. Stir in the tomato puree with the bay leaf. Simmer over low heat until pasta is cooked.
• Cook the pasta according to package directions; drain, and serve with sauce after seasoning it with pepper.

LINGUINE WITH SHRIMP, TOMATO AND FENNEL

Steps:

• Cut the green tops off the fennel, chop and reserve. Trim the bulbs and slice them very thin on a mandoline or with a sharp knife. Set aside. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the linguine and cook until al dente, about 10 minutes. Drain and rinse.
• Meanwhile, heat 1 teaspoon of the olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook, stirring constantly, for 20 seconds. Add the sliced fennel bulbs and cook until crisp-tender, about 10 minutes.
• Add the shrimp and cook until just cooked through, about 3 minutes. Season with 1 teaspoon of salt and pepper to taste. In a small bowl, stir together the tomatoes, orange zest and jalapenos. Place the linguine in a large bowl. Add the shrimp mixture, the tomato mixture and the remaining oil and toss to combine. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste. Divide pasta among 4 plates. Combine the fennel tops and parsley and sprinkle over pasta. Serve immediately.