@@janellemartis8848 "Awaphadigom" in my dialect. I'm a Meitei and 'phadigom' basically means coriander. It has a strong smell and taste which is really addictive. And we use it when we cook meat. This is a must
Yasss! In Vietnamese be cooking we use culantro in zesty salads with thin sliced beef or seafood! It’s so refreshing and spicy, we love it in noodle soups as well!
I've seen some East Asian food shops selling a similar looking herb under the name 'thai stinking parsley', do you know if it is in fact culantro / shado beni? I'm trying to find it but it's not easy 😞
I love being a Caribbean woman! We (Haitians) call ours Epis! We make it with garlic, green onions (or leeks), bell peppers, scotch bonnet pepper (if you want it spicy), onions, thyme, parsley, Maggi cube (or salt), and olive oil. Then you can put cloves in it after you blend it. We put Epis in every single thing!
This is so interesting to see, I don’t know much about Caribbean cooking but sofrito is peppers, onion, garlic, and tomato with different spices in Spanish cooking. It’s pretty cool to see how different cultures borrow influences from one another.
@Bodasurri93 same in the UK and as far as I'm aware France. It's the base for most soups, stews, and non dairy sauces. (Yes yes I know British food is terrible blah blah blah, I'm not comparing cuisine just saying we use the same base veggies).
Not “borrow”, your ancestors colonized us and forced us to follow your religion, culture, and language + killed off the majority of our natives so the majority of that culture is lost
I'm south indian and I LOVE culantro but I had no idea the rest of the world knew about it! It so amazing to see how underrepresented peoples have been exchanging ingredients for CENTURIES
@@jagjitvirdee1515oh dear you are so wrong Rest of the world have seen more South Indians That’s why the world thinks the whole India have same English accent like South Indians Which is so wrong Still people get shocked when I talk they are like you don’t have Indian accent
@@harleennatt4363 oh I totally agree with you. I was just trying to make her understand not to stereotype us all. I guess I wasn't able to articulate my point across very well lol. Yes I also do not have an Indian accent but rather a British one as I wasn't born in India 😊
Dominican American living in Texas. The best place to find culantro will be in Asian supermarket, i guess Mexico has been sleeping on this herb because i rarely find it in the Hispanic supermarket. Our recipe for sofrito is the same except my mom never used cubanelle/Anaheim peppers(not sure if that's a Dominican thing or a my mom thing🤷♀️)
Culantro team represent! 💚 Hola from Panama! I love culantro, its smell, for me, is the smell of my country. And I almost never see it represented in recipes, online, etc. it's always cilantro and people confusing the two haha
Fun fact, in Colombia both herbs are called cilantro, the diference is that the one you call Culantro is called "Cilantro cimarrón", and the 2nd is just "Cilantro"
I personally don't use anything but the recao, cilantro, peppers, onions and garlic but there are so many different varieties and im obsessed and don't know how i ate meat before my boyfriend's mother taught me how to make it a few years ago
The culantro basically translates to foreign cilantro in my language. Always wondered what it was called in other countries😂 I’m from bangladesh but this looks really flavourful will be good in many bengali dishes too and i also have a bunch of culantro plants in balcony garden. Maybe I’ll try this❤
Never heard of culantro, didn't know what sofrito was, but now I am so curious about how to use these in cooking. My family is always interested in trying new dishes and cuisines.
@@thepaintedpoppies1010 these are great marinades for meats! Love it for pork chops and skirt steaks. Also a great base for stew sauces. I have quite a bit of recipes on my page where I use it and show how I use the frozen cubes
In my country Bangladesh it is mostly known as bilati dhonepata (foreign cilantro). After watching this video i search for it in Google & find out culantro is commonly grown in Carribbean & Central American territory. I never understood why it is call bilati dhonepata (foreign cilantro) but now I know why it is bilati(foreign)😂 Thank you so much❤ Love your video ❤
Culantro smells amazing. In Northeast India it's a very common ingredient like cilantro. We often use it when cooking meat. Culantro is one of my favourite herbs after mint. We have culantro planted in our mini garden and we are never out of it because they keep growing back if taken care of and 3-4 leaves are enough for a single dish as it has quite strong smell.
Making the other half of the sofrito into frozen cubes is so smart! My ma always gives away the other half to my aunt because she doesn’t want it to waste
I love culantro..the smell is amazing. In Assam, northeast state of India. We used this on a regular basis. Mostly in fish curry, it gives such a great flavour .
So I'm Brazilian and I'd never heard the word culantro so I went to google translate and IT'S COENTRO! Now everything makes sense, yes, it's must in Brazilian cuisine aswell, my grandpa also likes to grow them in our garden 😂
I love the food side of RUclips. Like, I’m probably never going to be able to go to el Caribe, but now I know a recipe from there and the existence of Culantro
I LOVE sofrito! I had a cafeteria cook in my school make it and sell it to me. She moved and I retired and the Sofrito sold in the store is full of sodium and abysmal! Thank you for posting as I never heard of the first herb but will definitely try to find it! ❤
I need to try it sounds delicious 😊 I would be scared to store garlic and oil mixture longer than a week though- there is higher chance of botulism, unless it's acidic enough - below 4.6ph
Finally a video about culantro. They're so fast growing (invasive even), they grew like weeds after we planted one but never got the chance to cook them 😂😢
I find this very similar to Zhug/Zhuk which is a spicy Yemenite spread. There is a red and green version, and the green is made of cilantro, spicy green peppers, garlic, oil and spiced with salt pepper and cumin mostly. It’s delicious and can be eaten with anything
Big love for chadon beni/bandhanya, i learned to use this from my Trini fam and I thought you were making our green seasoning until you pulled out the pepper! I love seeing the comments unite over this herb, it’s like the hidden secret that makes all our foods so delicious.
I make sofrito with all the ingredients you added except for peppers I use lots of the small bonnet Aji dulce peppers without the seeds and I add one onion.
En Venezuela he visto ese 'culantro', pero mi abuela me dijo que se llama 'cilantro de monte'. Huele súper rico y me encanta para sopas. Ahora vivo en España y el mismo cilantro básico es difícil de conseguir 😥
Watching this from Italy where sofritto base is essentially trinitarian: onions, carrots, celery... and you build on that with spices, veggies, meat, fish... whatever...
We call it shado beni also from the Eastern part of the Caribbean where I'm from. We call safrito, " Green Season" and the Haitians call it Epis. Everywhere in the Caribbean there is a different version of this sauce based on what grows in your region. I live in New York now, so my sauce is a little different from back home!
Jamaican here. It's so refreshing to see all my Caribbeans unite over culantro 😂❤
Love all of y'all
Shado Beni?
@bajanvacationer8409 yes, exactly what it is
Where can a non Jamaicans find this culantro?? This looks awesome
@auberthere3737 Caribbean or Asian markets. As we're usually the only cultures who eat it regularly
@@bajanvacationer8409100% that's the name 🇹🇹
i was today years old hearing about culantro
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The way I felt happy seeing culantro 😊 we eat it a lot here. I'm from Manipur, a north eastern state of India
Hi, what is it called in Manipur? And what does it taste like? I'm from Maharashtra. Would love to know more about this herb!
What is the flavour like? I love Indian food, and this is one herb i havent come across before ❤
@@getmotivated1707 it is similar to cilantro but it is stronger in flavor.
@GK00pa ooh I will have to search it out then, I LOVE cilantro/coriander, hope I can find some easily in the UK. Thanks!
@@janellemartis8848 "Awaphadigom" in my dialect. I'm a Meitei and 'phadigom' basically means coriander. It has a strong smell and taste which is really addictive. And we use it when we cook meat. This is a must
In Haiti we call this Epice and it make everything better
Except we don't use cilantro or culantro. It would have been parsley and thyme.
I was just about to ask if sofrito and epis were the same thing!
@@TheAyisyenneThanks for the clarity 😊
We do not call it épis, we have a variation of it called épis.
seeing you add that amount of garlic healed my soul
as a gurl who eats garlic for breakfast lunch and dinner, same
Interesting culantro, we call it shadow beni in Trinidad😊
Its actually spelt chadon bení❤ the pronunciation shadow beni is due to our patios😊
It's actually spelled "patois". Some people spell it "patio" due to ignorance 😊
@@tylerm2131pretty sure that was a typo…😂
@lisha3595 aaah yes my bad 🤭
Bandanya 🇹🇹 😂
Ah yes...the quintessential shadon beni/bandania/ culantro. ❤❤🇹🇹🇹🇹
Yesss to bandhania shadonbeni 🇹🇹
Yes Trini in the house you got it right 🇹🇹❤🫠
Yasss! In Vietnamese be cooking we use culantro in zesty salads with thin sliced beef or seafood! It’s so refreshing and spicy, we love it in noodle soups as well!
i always wondered what that was, sometimes it is served with pho at some vietnamese restaurants. awesome 😊
I've seen some East Asian food shops selling a similar looking herb under the name 'thai stinking parsley', do you know if it is in fact culantro / shado beni? I'm trying to find it but it's not easy 😞
@@redhairedchef You can find it at Mexican markets sometimes I find it at my Asian market.
Panamanian here we call that Recao Verde instead, but still love Sofrito❤ makes everything delicious
In PR we also call it recao
I love being a Caribbean woman! We (Haitians) call ours Epis! We make it with garlic, green onions (or leeks), bell peppers, scotch bonnet pepper (if you want it spicy), onions, thyme, parsley, Maggi cube (or salt), and olive oil. Then you can put cloves in it after you blend it. We put Epis in every single thing!
literally everything!! epis is such an easy way to enhance any dish
True! My mom is extra so she adds rosemary, cloves, green onion and different seasonings and it last her at least 3 months (if kept in the freezer)
do you actually use olive oil in caribbean cuisine? olives don't grow there so i'm surprised
@@ismbksIt's not common in traditional cooking AT ALL, most people use corn oil.
@@therailgun7907 that makes sense to me. i guess nowadays more households have olive oil because it's massively exported.
This is so interesting to see, I don’t know much about Caribbean cooking but sofrito is peppers, onion, garlic, and tomato with different spices in Spanish cooking. It’s pretty cool to see how different cultures borrow influences from one another.
No it’s more than that lol. & I’m Puerto Rican
@ I’m saying it’s that combination in Spanish cooking
in italy its just onions, carrots, sellerie and olive oil. 😅
@Bodasurri93 same in the UK and as far as I'm aware France. It's the base for most soups, stews, and non dairy sauces. (Yes yes I know British food is terrible blah blah blah, I'm not comparing cuisine just saying we use the same base veggies).
Not “borrow”, your ancestors colonized us and forced us to follow your religion, culture, and language + killed off the majority of our natives so the majority of that culture is lost
I'm south indian and I LOVE culantro but I had no idea the rest of the world knew about it! It so amazing to see how underrepresented peoples have been exchanging ingredients for CENTURIES
Under represented in what sense lol. There's literally a billion of you 😂
She's South Indian. Completely different side of India in comparison to "mainstream" India which the rest of the world is used to seeing.
@@jagjitvirdee1515oh dear you are so wrong
Rest of the world have seen more South Indians
That’s why the world thinks the whole India have same English accent like South Indians
Which is so wrong
Still people get shocked when I talk they are like you don’t have Indian accent
@@harleennatt4363 oh I totally agree with you. I was just trying to make her understand not to stereotype us all. I guess I wasn't able to articulate my point across very well lol. Yes I also do not have an Indian accent but rather a British one as I wasn't born in India 😊
@@jagjitvirdee1515 well I m sorry if I misunderstood you
Chadon beni/bandhania - culantro 🇹🇹😍❤️
Was looking for this and we also call the blend “green seasoning”
Yes that’s how we call it too 🇬🇩
Was really tryna figure out wtf is culantro
I was reading another comment
Apparently in Assam, it's known as Maan Dhaniya. So I think our bhan dhaniyah is a distortion of that word
@makkay100 was abt to comment the same thing😂
Culantro is so good!! I'm not Caribbean but I did mistakenly buy the Goya Culantro Sofrito. Now I buy it purposely. 😂
Puerto Rican here! Happy to see this done more!!🎉❤
Omg I'm Italian and we have it too (we call it soffritto). We put carrots, onions, garlic and celery in it :))
Soffritto is Italias, do not know what this is
Culantro is known in Puerto Rico as “Recao” and is great for sofrito and guisos too.
I'm from mayagüez we call it Culantro. My husband is from Bayamon, and they call it Recao. So I guess it depends.
🇵🇷 From Vega Alta! We also call it Recao
Manatí we call it Recao 😅
Ven acá alguien mas de la area oeste que le diga Culantro? 🤣 no puedo ser la unica! 🤣
@@scrunchybunch3219I’m from mayaguez and I call it recao 😳
Before u used pepper and add it on beef broth for soup it's sooo good with some beef and add noodle it's a noodle soup so good too
Culantro is the secret for the best chicken soup ever. It just gives it that kick
Dominican American living in Texas. The best place to find culantro will be in Asian supermarket, i guess Mexico has been sleeping on this herb because i rarely find it in the Hispanic supermarket. Our recipe for sofrito is the same except my mom never used cubanelle/Anaheim peppers(not sure if that's a Dominican thing or a my mom thing🤷♀️)
Can you please give me location of asian market please? I cannot find it. Thanks
@@bhawnaamin6379 look up your nearest fiesta mart! They definitely carry it there as someone who use to live in ATX
the plant is literally native to mexico not the dominican republic, and we call it alcapate
I love a person who uses garlic like mr ❤❤❤❤
Culantro team represent! 💚 Hola from Panama! I love culantro, its smell, for me, is the smell of my country. And I almost never see it represented in recipes, online, etc. it's always cilantro and people confusing the two haha
Mi abuelita lo usa para condimentar el pollo y le queda bien bueno 😍😍
Totally agree, glad to see a fellow Panamanian defending our roots. Nada como un buen sancocho con mucho culantro.
My Canadian butt thought she said cilantro wrong 😂
@@Cafeallday222 most people do
Don't tell errybody lol
I love culantro, my grandma make chicken soup, we use in veracruz, Mexico.
Culantro it’s definitely one of my favorites herbs as a Mexican I use it a lot ❤
Happy to see culantro getting the social media recognition it deserves!! ❤❤
For those who are confused, culantro are what we caribbean ppl call shadow beni it smells so good. It's amazing in chow as well. 🇹🇹
Yesss, we cook like this in Venezuela, and it makes everything sooo tasty ❤❤❤
Peruvian here, we also use culantro and I love it
Soffritto in Italian is onions, carrots and celery. It’s interesting how similar the name but different the recipes are
in Türkiye we eat a lot of Culantro and I thought USA didnt have it the all time because i didnt know the name. We love it so much 🇹🇷❤
the way culantro reunites most of the Caribbean countries heals my soul 😭
We eat a lot of culantro in Bangladesh. Love from Bangladesh❤
I have never even heard some of these and never touched the others, it's so interesting to see how different we eat
It’s so fun and also very interesting seeing how other countries have different names for stuff. Thanks for sharing 🫶🫶🫶
Fun fact, in Colombia both herbs are called cilantro, the diference is that the one you call Culantro is called "Cilantro cimarrón", and the 2nd is just "Cilantro"
We call culantro Shado beni in the Caribbean. Love using it to season fish🇦🇬
In Trinidad we call it bandhania or chadon beni. I imagine in other Caribbean countries the name may vary or be the same... I don't know.😊
i planted some aji cachucha in my garden and use it in my sofrito. yummyyyy!
Culantro, Ghost pepper, garlic, ginger with pork. The best combination.
I personally don't use anything but the recao, cilantro, peppers, onions and garlic but there are so many different varieties and im obsessed and don't know how i ate meat before my boyfriend's mother taught me how to make it a few years ago
This is the dominican version I think
The culantro basically translates to foreign cilantro in my language. Always wondered what it was called in other countries😂
I’m from bangladesh but this looks really flavourful will be good in many bengali dishes too and i also have a bunch of culantro plants in balcony garden. Maybe I’ll try this❤
In Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 we call it chadon beni or bandhania.
In El Salvador we call it "alcapate"
Im Cuban and never heard of culantro. My grandmas sofrito recipe doesn’t call for it. Now I’m going to have to look for it and try it out
Do they maybe call it Recao? in PR we call it Culantro and recao depending on the region
Never heard of culantro, didn't know what sofrito was, but now I am so curious about how to use these in cooking. My family is always interested in trying new dishes and cuisines.
@@thepaintedpoppies1010 these are great marinades for meats! Love it for pork chops and skirt steaks. Also a great base for stew sauces. I have quite a bit of recipes on my page where I use it and show how I use the frozen cubes
We as an Indian use lots of culantro in our kitchen too!! ❤
I'm from Costa Rica and finally I heard someone in a recipe talk about culantro that it's better than cilantro actually. 😋😋
Aji is so hard to find if you're not in the Caribbean😩. They be adding so much flavor to food. A staple in my house.
In Assam (India) we use Culantro a lot. We call it "Maan Dhaniya"
In my country Bangladesh it is mostly known as bilati dhonepata (foreign cilantro).
After watching this video i search for it in Google & find out culantro is commonly grown in Carribbean & Central American territory.
I never understood why it is call bilati dhonepata (foreign cilantro) but now I know why it is bilati(foreign)😂
Thank you so much❤
Love your video ❤
Here from Costa Rica! We are culantro lovers, but we call it culantro coyote. 💚
never thought to freeze green seasoning great tip definetly going to try this.
Ahhhh finally culantro the best herb everrrrr from Mizoram, India
My husband’s aunt is Puerto Rican and she put this in her lasagna it’s really good
Ma’am culantro?! I’m just learning about this and I live in the Caribbean. I learn something new everyday
I can smell it all the way over hear mmm smells amazing ❤❤❤
Culantro smells amazing. In Northeast India it's a very common ingredient like cilantro. We often use it when cooking meat. Culantro is one of my favourite herbs after mint. We have culantro planted in our mini garden and we are never out of it because they keep growing back if taken care of and 3-4 leaves are enough for a single dish as it has quite strong smell.
Her hair color is so beautiful on her!
Making the other half of the sofrito into frozen cubes is so smart! My ma always gives away the other half to my aunt because she doesn’t want it to waste
I love culantro..the smell is amazing. In Assam, northeast state of India. We used this on a regular basis. Mostly in fish curry, it gives such a great flavour .
I'm gonna do it. It sounds and looks delicious
I like PR sofrito the best but this looks great as well.
Yeah I was like where are the onions?
I love the universal "....about that much...a little more for safety" 😂 ❤
Have to listen for when the ancestors say that's enough 😂😂😂😂😂
So I'm Brazilian and I'd never heard the word culantro so I went to google translate and IT'S COENTRO! Now everything makes sense, yes, it's must in Brazilian cuisine aswell, my grandpa also likes to grow them in our garden 😂
my mom has a culantro plant so we always have fresh🤭
@@valpadilla. so lucky 😭
I love the food side of RUclips. Like, I’m probably never going to be able to go to el Caribe, but now I know a recipe from there and the existence of Culantro
Extraño demasiado el aji dulce 🥲
Girl thank u cause my friends mom makes it but moved away I never knew it was that ez
ohhhh culantro is good! we have it here in brasil too ☺️❤️
I never thought about freezing it. Must try
I LOVE sofrito! I had a cafeteria cook in my school make it and sell it to me. She moved and I retired and the Sofrito sold in the store is full of sodium and abysmal! Thank you for posting as I never heard of the first herb but will definitely try to find it! ❤
YES also in south Italy we do it but we add carots
Been living in Europe for the past 3 years. I never thought I could miss culantro so much.
Oh! We have culantro in Vietnamese cuisine too! We put it in our pho as a garnishing herb! Never knew its name
I need to try it sounds delicious 😊 I would be scared to store garlic and oil mixture longer than a week though- there is higher chance of botulism, unless it's acidic enough - below 4.6ph
My Italian heart is very attracted to this
Finally a video about culantro. They're so fast growing (invasive even), they grew like weeds after we planted one but never got the chance to cook them 😂😢
Never thought about freezing it. In Haitian culture we leave it runny.
Its just to keep it fresh for as long as possible
Culantro is also a staple in Honduran cuisine and it's delicious!
love love LOVE seeing all the caribbeans unite here, even if im actually south american lol
Just made some today, Haitian style ♥️ I add a little mojo to mine
I find this very similar to Zhug/Zhuk which is a spicy Yemenite spread. There is a red and green version, and the green is made of cilantro, spicy green peppers, garlic, oil and spiced with salt pepper and cumin mostly.
It’s delicious and can be eaten with anything
I've never done this in my life, but it looks so tasty that I'm going to the shops right now to get the ingredients!
Kisses from Brasil 😊
O primeiro ingrediente você vai encontrar com mais facilidade se for numa feira, procure por Coentrão, ou se tiver uma vizinha idosa que cultive ervas
Big love for chadon beni/bandhanya, i learned to use this from my Trini fam and I thought you were making our green seasoning until you pulled out the pepper! I love seeing the comments unite over this herb, it’s like the hidden secret that makes all our foods so delicious.
looks amazing❤ i will try this
Marinated with chicken and then pan seared is delicious!
I’m St Lucian. We call culantro Shadow Beni at my house 😋 and sofrito is called green seasoning
I've gotta follow because I haven't seen any cooking from this culture before
Oh! Oh! We use culantro in Kerala (Southern India) too!
We call culantro shadon beni in Trinidad. First time I've seen green seasoning be cubed. But using preservative powder will probably help
Culantro or Ketumbar Jawa in Malaysia.
So good when u use it in Tomyam 🤤🤤🤤
This looks delicious. I will try making this, I'm in Europe, so I hope I can find all the ingredients!
I make sofrito with all the ingredients you added except for peppers I use lots of the small bonnet Aji dulce peppers without the seeds and I add one onion.
My family is Ecuadorian and we do the same except for the chile, hot sauce is put on the table for personal taste
We called it "Broad cilantro" in DR, but I learn something new today😂
I don’t see much culantro leaves out of sylhet, Bangladesh. So this was nice surprise
We call your culantro Zamat. Tastes like chirmol. So yummy
En Venezuela he visto ese 'culantro', pero mi abuela me dijo que se llama 'cilantro de monte'. Huele súper rico y me encanta para sopas. Ahora vivo en España y el mismo cilantro básico es difícil de conseguir 😥
In italy we also have our core Soffritto (that is how we spell it) and it's just onion, carrot and celery, it's the base for many dishes
Watching this from Italy where sofritto base is essentially trinitarian: onions, carrots, celery... and you build on that with spices, veggies, meat, fish... whatever...
I just made a comment about how similar this is to Spanish sofritto. It’s really interesting how cooking techniques travel with cultures.
We call it shado beni also from the Eastern part of the Caribbean where I'm from. We call safrito, " Green Season" and the Haitians call it Epis. Everywhere in the Caribbean there is a different version of this sauce based on what grows in your region. I live in New York now, so my sauce is a little different from back home!
FINALLT i find something about making sofrito! (Ive been too nervous to ask my mom)
We called it ketumbar in Malaysia. Boil it, then mince together with raw garlic, chilli pepper and some soya sauce. 😍
I’ve never heard of culantro. Thanks.