hi I'm Jim Davis for Harris Teeter and I'm going to show you now how to chop fennel first thing we're going to do is cut just a little slice off of the bottom the root and pull off the stained outer leaves of the of the root if it's slightly stained you can use a peeler to remove it we want to remove that heavy outer release now we're going to remove the fennel fronds and as you can see we're going to cut them right next to the bulb that's our edible fennel bulb and these are the fronds that we may want to use and say for a garnish later to chop the fennel we're going to cut it first in half and then we're going to cut out this little core right here and then we're going to chop our fennel into pieces and then crosscut and you can smell the licorice when you do that dice of fennel and that's how you chopped fennel up next how to slice fennel you