/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6973028
Salsa

>>6973036
What kind? Pico de gallo doesn't use that much

Make a cilantro pesto, a cilantro chimmichurri, or a salsa verde.

>>6973028
guac

>>6973028
Clean the cilantro pretty good and put some in a sealed jar with an inch or two of water in it. It will stay fresh a lot longer.

Also, guac and banh mi's

>>6973042
>>6973046
Guacamole goes on nachos, tacos, quesadillas, and what else?

>>6973058
put guac on fucking anything dude seriously. I eat guac with rice, chicken, salad, sandwiches, burgers, celery, chips, oatmeal, fruit

>>6973028
Add some fat and lye and make soap.

Instead of buying huge bunches, get a cilantro plant and use as needed.

>>6973028
arroz verde

>>6973028
eat it like a salad

>>6973094
This.
Personal mini-herb garden is so nice.

>>6973028
>chimmichurri
goes with everything

>>6973028
chop that shit up and add it to a salad, pasta salad, or anything you think it might go good with. it's not like cilantro is such a strong flavor you can ruin shit by adding it

>>6973410
My waffles this weekend disagreed.

>select all waffles

That's kind of creepy, Kojima.

>>6973038
I always use a lot of it in mine. Shit's delicious.

>>6973058
I really like avocado on fish with sliced mango. So I'm sure guac would be pretty good too

>>6973028
shits like 30 cents at walmart, why are you worried about it?

>>6973574
>Walmart
dindu nuffin'

>>6973094
I live in a real city and my apartments balcony only really gets direct sunlight a couple hours a day, mostly when its its too cold to have plants. The one herb plant we had died extremely quickly. Plus it provided hardly any herbs and we were always unsure of whether to use it or not because of how few leaves there were. Its much better to just buy unless you actually like tending a garden and have a place for it.

>>6973028
try this OP Peruvian recipe .

http://lavidacomida.com/seco-de-pollo/

link looks spanish but is all in english

>>6973028

chimichuri, pesto, salsa verde, uhhhhh a few other things i cannot think of without google.

curry

Is cilantro just coriander?
I only hear about cilantro here.

>>6975211
It's the American term for coriander leaf. Coriander refers to coriander seed in the US.

Falafel

But not overly too much

Gives it a weird taste

>tfw cilantro tastes like soap to me
>tfw will never get to enjoy and know the actual taste
;_;

I just chop up all the leaves and separate them from the stems and freeze them, then i either use the stems for curry paste or freeze them as well. They last for around a month in the freezer and if you add them just before cooking is finished the taste is not diffferent from the fresh.

>>6973028
http://www.food.com/recipe/coriander-lemon-chicken-57908?scaleto=6.0&st=null&mode=us
not a huge fan of cilantro but loved this recipe
and don't be afraid to use a lot of cilantro, it becomes much milder as you cook it

>>6973041
>>6973042
these are all good ideas, you can also make a cilantro based tabbouleh or baba ganoush

Chermoula

>>6975549
It's an acquired taste. Yes, even if you have the soap gene. I have it and learning to like cilantro was no different to learning to like beer.

>>6974308
If you cared you would get the fuck out of the city.

>>6976721
>Leave one of the largest cities in the world with literally everything I could want less than a 30 minute subway ride, so that I can stop wasting a dollar every few weeks on old cilantro and spend my limited time tending a garden

I'm good

>>6976733
You don't care. K.

>>6976653
Best answer

>>6973094
Have you ever tried growing cilantro?

>look at it funny
>SHIT FUCK, WINTER IS HERE, GO TO SEED IMMEDIATELY, REPLACE ALL TASTY LEAVES WITH DISGUSTING SHITTY FEATHERY THINGS

They're a joke of a plant, at least if you try to grow them somewhere that isn't really hot.

>>6977757
You do realize you're supposed to trim back herbs before they can flower, right?

They do need a lot of sun though, you're right about that.

pork chile verde, I usually use a whole bundle when I make a batch with ~3lbs pork,

or

I also use a lot when making pinto or black beans, at least 1/2 bundle per lb

>>6975211
Cilantro is spic speak for coriander.

>>6973028
I make something like a gremolata with cilantro and use on meat. Personally, I think it'd be too heavy on the flavor if using it to completely replace parsley, but a quarter part cilantro to parsley works well, and to each their own - if you like it enough to use that heavy, go for it. I tend to chop it and spread it out on paper towels to dry in my fridge when I have a lot left over. It's not as good as fresh, but it is fine when treated like other dry herbs.

>>6973028
did you get it from the dumpster

Make cilantro pesto

>>6973028
any number of mexican soups

Use it in a melange and some cheap cuts of beef to marinate your own carne asada.

Or do the same with some pork to marinate you some carne al pastor.

>>6977790
>you do realize my time is worthless

>>6973028
Some kind of enchiladas with cilantro lime sour cream sauce.

I usually use about half a bunch of cilantro in it when I make mine.

>>6980395
are you trolling or just an idiot?

Grind it up and mix it with baking soda.
Stuff it down any clogged drain.
Pour white vinegar immediately after.

Problem solved.

>>6980574
what problem

What does salsa verde go with? Never had it, I think I'm going with that or chimmichuri sauce

I have all the ingredients for chimmichuri sauce except parsley. Would making it with only cilantro give it a weird taste?

>>6973028
Do you know four different recipes that use less than a quarter of what you bought? Make each of them on subsequent days, and the little bit left over at the end will still be good to sprinkle over your yogurt.

Carrot and coriander soup

>>6973063
quit calling it that, it makes you look stupid