178 star anise recipes

Wheel cookies with ground almonds, currants, anise seeds, and cinnamon in a buttery dough. Pressed with a fork and baked golden in just 12 minutes.

Bizcochitos are the official state cookie of New Mexico: lard-based shortbread perfumed with anise and sweet wine, dusted in cinnamon sugar, and baked into delicate flaky rounds. The traditional Christmas and wedding cookie of the Southwest.

Traditional New Mexican biscochitos with anise seed and cinnamon-sugar topping. These shortening-based cookies are crisp, fragrant, and cut into festive shapes.

Tender cream cheese cookies flavored with star anise, shaped into logs, baked, then sliced and toasted crisp for twice-baked slices that melt on your tongue.

Fruity Mary punch simmers red wine with brown sugar, apple, orange, pineapple, and star anise, then finishes with a splash of orange curaçao. A warm holiday mulled wine served in heat-safe mugs.

Traditional New Mexican biscochitos made with lard, egg yolks, anise, and vanilla. Rolled, cut into shapes, and baked until tender. New Mexico's official state cookie and a holiday staple.

Rio Grande-style biscocitos with butter, anise seed, and brandy, dusted in cinnamon sugar before baking. Crisp, fragrant, and easy to cut into festive shapes. Makes 3 dozen.

Cinnamon sherry biscochitos, the official state cookie of New Mexico, crisp anise-scented butter cookies with a splash of sherry and cinnamon sugar coating.

Eight-spice crispy skinned snapper with Szechuan peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon, fennel, cumin, coriander, white pepper, and ginger. Pan-seared then oven-roasted for shatteringly crisp skin.

Traditional Tuscan cavallucci spice cookies built from a hot sugar syrup kneaded with walnuts, candied orange peel, and warm spices like clove, anise, and cinnamon. Chewy, perfumed, and unmistakably medieval.

Salmon wrapped in rice paper, seared until crisp, then baked and served over julienned vegetables in an aromatic soy-sake broth with lemongrass and star anise. A restaurant-worthy Asian fusion dinner.

Homemade spiced herbal liqueur infused with cardamom, star anise, angelica root, cinnamon, and mace in vodka. Steep for one week, strain, and sweeten with sugar syrup.

Chocolate-dipped biscotti flavored with Pernod, bourbon, and anise seed with chopped almonds baked twice for a crisp, crunchy snap. Dipped in melted chocolate chips the day they're served for a glossy finish.

Classic Italian biscotti studded with toasted walnuts and star anise, double-baked until crisp for perfect dunking in coffee or wine.

Gin-marinated smoked salmon with brown sugar, pickling spices, and star anise. Bruised spices create complex flavor in this 2-hour cold-smoke recipe.

Indian-style deep-fried whitefish marinated in a garlic, cumin, coriander, and star anise paste with lemon juice. Crispy, golden, and packed with warm spice.