{"id":230934,"date":"2023-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/recipe-fennel-balls-from-palazzolo-acreide\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:52:06","slug":"recipe-fennel-balls-from-palazzolo-acreide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/traditional-cooking\/recipe-fennel-meatballs-from-palazzolo-acreide\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: fennel meatballs from Palazzolo Acreide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">ALSO FOR VEGETERIANS<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Belonging to the Sicilia\u2019s culinary tradition, the fennel balls are a perfect appetizer or a delicious second course. Easy and quick to prepare, the few ingredients required will give birth to an extremely tasty dish. If you still have doubts, follow our recipe coming from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/village\/palazzolo-acreide\/\"><strong>Palazzolo Acreide<\/strong><\/a> (Siracusa) and try to cook this amazing fennel balls.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-4 ricettaSinistra\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">300 gr of fennel<br \/>\n50 gr of Tumazzo (typical Sicilian cheese) or pecorino cheese<br \/>\n120 gr of bread crumbs<br \/>\n2 medium eggs<br \/>\nExtra Virgin Olive Oil<br \/>\nSalt<br \/>\nPink pepper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8 ricettaDestra\">\n<h3><strong>Method<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>First of all, wash the fennel and cut the base of the stem, together with all the parts that don\u2019t have a homogenous green colour, then boil it. After that, mix the fennel with grated Tumazzo cheese or pecorino cheese, 50 gr of bread crumbs, eggs, salt and pepper; until you get a uniform mixture. In the meantime, boil the extra virgin olive oil in a pan, but be careful and don\u2019t make it reach the smoke point.<\/p>\n<p>Turn the mix into many small balls (if you want, you can use two spoons and form some quenelles, in order to make it easier) and roll them in a plate, in which you previously put the remaining bread crumbs. Then, put the balls into the boiling oil and fry them. Turn them once a while, and make sure to cook them homogenously. Here you are, you\u2019re done! Before serving them, put the fennel balls on a kitchen paper sheet, in order to remove the excess of oil, and leave them cool down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>&#8230;Enjoy!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recipe for wild fennel meatballs from Palazzolo Acreide: a traditional Sicilian vegetarian dish that is quick and easy to prepare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-blog-pro.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1537],"tags":[164859],"village-conntection":[50905],"class_list":["post-230934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traditional-cooking","tag-traditional-dish","village-conntection-palazzolo-acreide-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230934"},{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=230934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}