Fennel Pasta with Peas, Lemon and Basil

I've never cooked with fennel before, but it recently came in a vegetable box and I needed to find a use for it. Luckily, I found this lovely recipe in one of my random vegetarian cook books. I was quite apprehensive about cooking this as the smell of fennel is very overwhelming and like aniseed, which I am not keen on. However, when cooked it loses much of it's pungency and instead just gives a nice flavour.