Is there anywhere on the US East Coast where I could buy fresh culantro?!
Answers: Specifically in Virginia or DC?
Go to a Southeast Asian market!!!!! Mark my words. I see saw leaf herbs everytime I go to a Southeast Asian food store. I call culantro saw leaf herbs. Culantro is used in the Vietnamese noodle dish pho. It should be by the veggies (basil, bok choy, etc.).
I don't think it would be in a regular food store, even in the Ethnic food section, so don't bother there.
I've lived in the DC metropolitan area all my life. You can get fresh cilantro in the produce section of almost any major grocery store. It's usually near the parsley. If you can't find it, try a market that caters to hispanic or asian customers. Giant and Whole Foods definitely carry it.
Sorry, we have no matches for culantro
Did you mean cilantro?
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ci lan tro
NOUN:
See coriander.
co ri an der
NOUN:
1: An aromatic annual Eurasian herb (Coriandrum sativum) in the parsley family, having parsleylike leaves and umbels of tiny white to pinkish flowers. It is cultivated for its edible fruits, leafy shoots, and roots.
2: The fresh young leafy plantlets of this herb, used in salads and various dishes as a flavoring and garnish. Also called Chinese parsley , cilantro .
3; The seedlike fruit of this plant, used whole or ground as a flavoring for food and as a seasoning, as in curry powder
have you TRIED to ask the produce clerk .
Major grocery store would have it the produce department. Get some seeds, grow it in a sunny window, grows like a weed.
If you truly mean culantro, and not cilantro, it isn't very easy to find. Your best bet is probably a Mexican or West Indies market. It still hasn't caught on here in the U.S., although it's starting to pick up steam. Your only other option is to special order some seeds and grow it yourself.