Roasted Fennel Pasta with Lemon and Capers

Pasta with roasted fennel, lemon, and capers: a delicious combination, simple and yet so sophisticated. This vegan fennel pasta can be made light or hearty.

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Course Pasta

Cuisine Italy

Servings 4 portions

Calories 681 kcal

Ingredients

1 kg fennel
4 tbsp olive oil
5 cloves garlic
few stalks parsley
1 tbsp capers the small ones
1 lemon organic
salt
pepper
500 g pasta (e.g. spaghetti)
½ cup pasta cooking water

Optional

dried chili flakes
1 tbsp homemade vegetable stock powder
1 tbsp vegan butter
200 ml vegan cream approx.
50 gram grated vegan cheese approx.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 200 °C (390 F).
Remove the upper end of the fennel and the inner stalk and cut the fennel into approx. 0.5 cm (0.2 in) thin strips. Keep a little of the fennel greens as an edible decoration.
Chop the garlic and finely chop the parsley (leaves).
Grate the zest from 1/2 the lemon and squeeze the juice from the whole lemon.
Put the fennel in a baking dish (the pieces may lie over another) together with the olive oil, garlic, parsley, capers, lemon (juice and zest), chili, salt, and pepper. Combine and bake for 20 minutes.
While the fennel is in the oven, start cooking your pasta. If available, add a bit of vegetable stock powder to the cooking water. Some cooking water is used later, so it will have a little more flavor.
Drain the pasta and collect half a cup of the cooking water.
If you like to, add a piece of vegan butter to the cooked pasta (optional).
After the fennel was in the oven for 20 minutes, add the pasta cooking water to the baking dish, stir, and bake for about another 15 minutes until the fennel is soft (some like it crisper, I prefer it the softie way). Switch off the oven.
Now add the pasta, and, if the more hearty variant is on the program (which is my favorite, and also seen in the photos), also the cream and the grated cheese.
Combine everything and leave it in the switched off-oven for a few minutes.
Arrange on a plate and garnish with some fennel leaves.

Notes

The quantity makes 4 to 5 portions.
The nutritional values were calculated without the optional ingredients.

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