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Cilantro help

colleena — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 04:21:30 GMT

A couple months ago I went to a Salsa class where I purchased the plants to make salsa. The onions, tomatos, peppers are doing well as is the cilantro but I'm completely lost on what to do w/gigantic amount of it.

I harvested some of the cilantro this am, put it in a glass of water in the fridge & cleaned/cut it up to add it to my shrimp salad this evening. It definitely had a distinct not pleasant taste - soap taste is that right?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Re: Cilantro help

spumoni99 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 04:51:19 GMT

I have read that some people taste a soap type of taste when they eat cilantro, I love it but some people don't I guess. Its either you do or you don't. Maybe leave it out if it doesn't appeal to you. Also when it grows make sure to cut it before it flowers.

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Queen of shop — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 05:34:47 GMT

@colleena I don't like cilantro either. Tastes like soap. Any recipe that calls for it, I use parsley instead.

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BlueFinch — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:42:56 GMT

I love cilantro, but I have friends who hate it, so I avoid it with dishes I prepare for these guests. Several friends also say it tastes like soap, but it doesn't to me. But, it does have a unique taste, like nothing else.

So, cilantro either affects folks taste buds differently, or maybe it's just an acquired taste, if introduced slowly over time. I'm sure I had it early as a child (lots of great Mexican food in my area) which might be why I grew to love it.

Re: Cilantro help

jackthebear — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:32:22 GMT

@colleena wrote:
A couple months ago I went to a Salsa class where I purchased the plants to make salsa. The onions, tomatos, peppers are doing well as is the cilantro but I'm completely lost on what to do w/gigantic amount of it.

I harvested some of the cilantro this am, put it in a glass of water in the fridge & cleaned/cut it up to add it to my shrimp salad this evening. It definitely had a distinct not pleasant taste - soap taste is that right?

Any help would be much appreciated.

yep

some people perceive that taste, others don't

I love it, but my daughter hates it

Re: Cilantro help

Skyegirl21 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:43:32 GMT

Seems so many people dislike it, I don't use it in my guacamole,

I guess you can make a paste with EVOO and freeze in ice cube tray!

Re: Cilantro help

Starpolisher — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:58:48 GMT

Apparently, that soap 🧼 tastes is genetic for some people. 🌱

Re: Cilantro help

rockygems123 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:34:26 GMT

@colleena

As @Starpolisher says it's generic where some have a soap taste.

My son is somewhere in the middle, when I make pork posole he likes it cooked in the dish but he passes when fresh chopped is added on top when done.

Maybe you can tolerate it cooked within a dish, if not your friends and neighbors that like cilantro will enjoy it.

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Travone — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:52:13 GMT

@colleena

Count me in as pro cilantro. I love it.

If you or hubby work could you send the extras to the work kitchen? Those who garden do that where I work and items are usually taken by the end of the day. Love when the gardeners share.

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On It — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:55:59 GMT

@colleena No one in my family enjoys cilantro. In a restaurant I will order a dish specifying no cilantro. I never use it in salsa and many restaurants in Texas and New Mexico omit it as well.

if it were my garden, I would do away with the cilantro and plant more onions or peppers.

Re: Cilantro help

colleena — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:56:15 GMT

Thanks all, I appreciate it so much. I'm going to try to cook w/it tonight but if that doesn't help I'll harvest & give away. & isn't it funny but the deer seem to like all the other plants/flowers in the neighborhood but haven't touched the cilantro.

Re: Cilantro help

cindyNC — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:28:06 GMT

Try looking at The Mediterrean Dish.com for recipes. I was following her for a time, but she almost always uses fresh herbs in huge bunches and I don't have access to those quantities.

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Xivambala — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:09:26 GMT

I can't tolerate any food with cilantro added. It doesn't remind me of soap or any other substance I've had. Even the tiniest portion of a leaf dominates the dish it is in and makes the food inedible to me.

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NYCLatinaMe — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:44:40 GMT

I don't cook much but I grew-up with it in most of my meals and I love it. Just use a little bit chopped up in little pieces. My mom would include it in sofrito, a cooking base for many dishes. Her sofrito was a paste that also included mashed garlic and oregano, and was patted onto roasted meat, added to beans, stews, and used to sautee with olive oil meats like pork chops and skirt steak, and arroz con pollo (chicken and rice, a Puerto Rican staple).

Many more elaborate sofrito recipes online. Don't make the quantities suggested, because like I said, the recipes call for big batches since it was used in most meals. Most recipes include onions, peppers, tomatoes, but my mom was allergic to onion, and we didn't include these ingredients in our almost daily meal. Just the mashed garlic.

My mom actually made her mash fresh every day in a very small amount. A little goes a long way -- think garlic. Our breath would be fine in the small quantities my mom used. Just super tasty.

Again, a little goes a long way.

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On It — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:56:11 GMT

@colleena This seems to be appropriate for your post.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:03:36 GMT

It never occurred to me that cilantro tastes like soap. I just don't like it. Period. It dominates any food to which it's added.

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LavernLuvsShoes — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:34:42 GMT

Count me in as a lover of Cilantro! ♥

It's that nasty-tasting Basil (that all the chefs seem to toss in everything) that I can't tolerate.

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Starpolisher — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:20:39 GMT

@NYCLatinaMe wrote:

I don't cook much but I grew-up with it in most of my meals and I love it. Just use a little bit chopped up in little pieces. My mom would include it in sofrito, a cooking base for many dishes. Her sofrito was a paste that also included mashed garlic and oregano, and was patted onto roasted meat, added to beans, stews, and used to sautee with olive oil meats like pork chops and skirt steak, and arroz con pollo (chicken and rice, a Puerto Rican staple).

Many more elaborate sofrito recipes online. Don't make the quantities suggested, because like I said, the recipes call for big batches since it was used in most meals. Most recipes include onions, peppers, tomatoes, but my mom was allergic to onion, and we didn't include these ingredients in our almost daily meal. Just the mashed garlic.

My mom actually made her mash fresh every day in a very small amount. A little goes a long way -- think garlic. Our breath would be fine in the small quantities my mom used. Just super tasty.

Again, a little goes a long way.

@NYCLatinaMe

I'm Puertorriqueña! 🇵🇷 I also grew up eating it in many dishes! My mom also makes her Sofrito fresh for each dish. She's 94 and still makes it that way. She uses her pilón. Holidays, especially, Christmas 🎄 just wouldn't be the same without her Arroz con gandules! 😋
Buen provecho

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SandySparkles — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:08:53 GMT

I LOVE❤ cilantro, and cannot imagine cooking or eating authentic MEXICAN food or Vietnamese Pho without it!😁

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

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NYCLatinaMe — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:11:44 GMT

You are very lucky @Starpolisher!. My mom is 92, but she stopped cooking years ago. I miss mami's food!