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Meaning of culantro




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

culantro
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It is an aromatic herb widely used in culinary. It is another way of calling cilantro, whose scientific name is Coriandrum sativum. It is also usually called dannia, Chinese parsley or coriander. It belongs to the Apiaceae family.

  




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

That's what they call in Extremadura, Andalusia and other parts of Spain and I see that also in Latin America cilantro (coriandrum sativum), culinary aromatic herb, displaced by parsley in Spanish cuisine since the fifteenth century because it was considered cursed by the Inquisition to be used by heretics and infidels, Moors and Judaizers. Fortunately, we have recovered it.

  


ergo sifuentes geronimo

In Peruvian cuisine is called cilantro herb that Central America is known as Cilantro. It is the same species, (Coriandrum Sativum ) and is used for creating the famous rice with chicken, dried beef, lamb or the Northern goat, also used as a dressing of almost all the soups and broths of this extensive and delicious cuisine.

  



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