Pollen Ranch's Organic Fennel Pollen - Premium Quality Fennel Flowers and Powder for Cooking, 100% Organic Fennel for Flavorful Dishes - 1 oz. Tin

This is magic in meatballs. Saw a Chef show with Roy Choi, changed my meatballs and marinara forever. Yum. Premium quality, aromatic, fresh. PRICEY.

Love the flavor it brings to dishes. Marries well with pork and fish. (Great as a crust for seared tuna!) My only complaint is the container. The lid is next to impossible to remove. I read in several other reviews that they had issues with this too, so I planned ahead. I put down some parchment paper on the counter (people complained about losing half the pollen when getting the container open). I tried the basic way of opening the container, bare handed, no luck. I tried opening it wearing silicon gloves, still no luck, that lid is on tight! Then I got out my handy dandy cooking mallet, put the container on its edge and hammered it a few times to bend it out of shape, did it again on the other side and was able to release the lid with minimal spillage. I then move the fennel pollen to a suitable container (small mason jar) and poured the bit I spilled on the parchment paper on top. Love the product, but be prepared to fight the container for it!

Good quality, fragrant and tasty.

Fennel pollen is my new favorite flavor. It ads a flavor that is reminiscent of sausage to anything you put it in because of the heavy use of fennel seed in many sausages. I used it in a fig and prosciutto stuffing for Thanksgiving and it was fantastic. You'll definitely find yourself adding to dishes on the fly just to up the savory-ness of the dish. For those that do not like fennel/anise/black licorice flavor, do not fear fennel pollen. It does not taste like anise. The only reason this product didn't get 5 stars is because the tin it comes in is awful. It's so hard to open that you will end up dumping half of the product on the counter when you finally do pry the lid off. Unfortunately I can't buy this specific product again because of the packaging. But, the pollen itself is high quality.

I ordered this product after reading a recipe for a home adaptation of the Mezzi Rigatoni With Fennel Sausage Ragu in the Red Hen Restaurant menu that appeared in the Washington Post. If you like fennel, this is a great product; you just have to shell out some bucks to get a very small amount (although it is also true that a little goes a long way). I found (like several other reviewers) that the cover was very tight and difficult to remove without spilling the fennel pollen (which you really don't want to do); I overcame this issue by sticking a table knife tip between the lips of the cover and the container and twisting slightly to loosen the cover. Problem solved.

I saw glowing reports about fennel pollen in general and this item in particular. "Magical" is rather a high bar. The scent of anise you get when you open the package although showing it's fresh, actually worried me that it was going to just be fennel. BUT, I sprinkled about 1/4 a teaspoon onto almost a kilogram of salmon and grilled it. Ok, good salmon and perfectly grilled but it still was the best result I've ever gotten with this out of about 50 meals. The anise/licorice taste was barely there and mostly it just made it more salmon, more delicious and far less low tide. It really does mainly just make the flavor better and not especially fennel/anise. Lastly, you get about a tablespoon worth for 15 bucks. For a spice I originally found on click bait as "the most expensive food", this is quite reasonable. Compared to others of the same product or saffron or other pollens, it is quite a reasonable price for a truly magical spice.

This is a full-flavored fennel product from a reliable and healthy source. I love it on meats!! Rubs and sauces are enhanced by this fragrant herb.

Great price for fennel pollen! It’s great on chicken! Quality is good as well.