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Polen de hinojo

El polen de hinojo tiene un olor intenso y ligeramente anisado y un suave sabor a anís tostado.

Supercaro, 1 onza rinde mucho. Utilícelo con moderación como toque final magistral,
(Para otros platos que necesiten este sabor, utilice semillas de hinojo o bulbo de hinojo fresco).

Descripción del producto

PROPÓSITO

¿QUÉ ES?

Fennel pollen is the carefully harvested pollen of the fennel plant. Fennel is a flowering plant species in the carrot family whose leaves, seeds and bulb are also used in the culinary arts and herbal medicine.  Fennel pollen is a super-premium aromatic because of the delicacy of harvesting it.

EXPERIENCIA

Fennel pollen an aromatic porcelain-fragile aroma that is a rich, mildly anise-ish odor and a mellow toasted anise taste. The flavor comes from anethole, an aromatic compound also found in anise and star anise.

GEOGRAFÍA CULINARIA

Fennel is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely naturalized in many parts of the world. It’s especially prosperous in dry soils near bodies of water like coasts and riverbanks.

USOS TRADICIONALES

IMPROVISATIONAL ‘RIFFS’

LA HISTORIA

Longfellow‘s 1842 poem “The Goblet of Life” repeatedly refers to the plant and mentions its purported ability to strengthen eyesight:

Above the lower plants it towers,
The Fennel with its yellow flowers;
And in an earlier age than ours
Was gifted with the wondrous powers
Lost vision to restore.

ALIAS

  • Finocchio
  • μάραθον (Marathon)
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