What is culantro?
Culantro · Spanish
A long, serrated-leaf herb that tastes like cilantro but stronger, used in Caribbean, Latin American and Southeast Asian cooking.
What it tastes like
Intensely cilantro-like, earthy and a little soapy, and it holds up to cooking much better than cilantro.
Where you’ll see it
Puerto Rican sofrito and recaito, Trinidadian green seasoning, pho herb plates and Thai larb.