What are the various ways , the fennel seed is used in your home and kitchen ?
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don’t use it much, but when I was breast feeding I used to drink sauf vala pani ppl say baby ko gas nhi ho gi, even some ppl give it to babies as well.
abhi I only use it in chicken achar.
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I don’t like it much
I usually add it to pulao. Before starting with the pulao, I put about one teaspoon in a cup with water and put it aside. Do all the pulau stuff and when it’s time to do the dumm, I sprinkle some of the saunf water on it before. It’s something my mom always does, so I do it too.
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I don’t like it much but in my parents’ house,my abu goes through packs of saunf like anything.He pops a teaspoon of it in mouth after all meals and just randomly.He basically uses it,alongwith green cardamom as mouth fresheners.
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use it in pulao only.
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Nihari, achar, to cook vegetables such as turai ! Even good with simple curry! One of the spice of the “punj puri” - like in aalo turkari for with halwa puri!
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wow I am amazed its not a much liked spice. I love it. I use it in my tea , Biryani , korma and any dry veggie salans like aloo sabzi etc
Also I use it in my cereal occasionally , cookies and flavoured bread .
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I use it in aloo and tindora dry sabzis.
Never made it myself, but it’s also used in making thandaai - a cool refreshing summer drink.
Use it in biryani masala and pilao - both times it’s in powdered form. Erm…sometimes in Italian cooking…like soup or tomato based sauces. It adds such a lovely flavor…but u have to be careful not to overdo it otherwise it tastes weird lol. Use it in green tea sometimes and have used it when i was bfeeding my son.
Ingredient : Fennel Seeds or Saunf
I use it in achari baingan 
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use it quite a bit in sabzi like bhindi and squash
always need saunf for pulao and for my pasta sauce
we often have a home made mix (like mukwas) with shredded coconut as saunf is considered a digestive aid…
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Only yesterday my French colleague proudly gave me a French candy and it was made of saunf!
Saunf powder if added to chicken curry gives a very very good taste.
English people are very fond of eating green fennel!
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Isn’t some licorice flavoured with fennel?
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I was given some gurh recently, it is peppered liberally with fennel. Not sure quite what to do with it.
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^ eat it LOL.
i use it in my chai
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Make gur walay chawal dessert. Fennel and jaggery are an awesome combo
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^^Oh yessss…So yummy…!!
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How do you add saunf in palao?
^ Either when making the yakhni, add it in with the other aromatics (i have all those things in a small cotton cloth that i thrown in)…or add powdered saunf like maybe 1/4th teaspoon when u are frying the onions (just before adding chicken, yakhni and rice).
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when I do tarka for daal. I melt the butter in the add pan , add a few grains of fennel seeds then fry the garlic.
I add the daal in and it makes the daal flavour pop.
Love it